Our next Class of 2026 feature is Vy Bui Nguyen
Vy will be graduating with a BA in Computer Science. After graduation, she plans to relocate to Seattle to begin her role as a Data Engineer. Congrats, Vy!
Today we celebrate three incredible faculty members as they begin their retirement journeys. Thank you for your years of dedication, mentorship, and impact on the University of Minnesota community! Best wishes on this exciting new chapter!
We are #UMNProud of master’s student Jeffrey Hu and undergraduate computer science majors Anhao Li and Yehor Zharikhin who have qualified for the International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) World Finals, which will take place in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, this November. Their qualification marks the first time in 10 years that a University of Minnesota team has advanced to the world finals.
Learn more at the link in our bio!
PhD student Walter Sands, is integrating virtual reality (VR) observational tools with robotics to facilitate collaborative work between humans and robots. Using VR headsets that allow the user to see their real-world environment alongside graphics, Sands is developing the ability for the user to simultaneously see what a robot sees in order to foster collaboration.
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We are #UMNProud of Assistant Professor Ju Sun who won the Guillermo E. Borja Career Development Award for his exceptional research and scholarly accomplishments during the probationary period of tenure review. The award comes with a $3,500 reward for scholarly and research activities.
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Our next Class of 2026 feature is Sophie Reznik
Sophie will be graduating with a BS in Computer Science/Management. After graduation, she plans to travel to new cities with friends before starting work. Congrats, Sophie!
We are #UMNProud of the students Hassan Fares, Ian Kim, Jordan McVay, and Keegan Volk who took fourth place in the TracerFire competition, a two-day forensic security challenge hosted by Sandia National Laboratories. The team represented GopherHack, a University of Minnesota cybersecurity student club.
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#CSpotlight: Sofia Kirsanova
Sofia shares that she chose UMN because of her advisor, Associate Professor Yao-Yi Chiang. She shares that she really likes what he’s doing and the directions their lab, the Knowledge Computing Lab, is going. They work with all kinds of spatial and temporal data, and process it in various ways.
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Our next Class of 2026 feature is Abdirahman Hassan
Abdirahman will be graduating with a BS in Computer Science. After graduation, he plans to work at Inspire Medicals as an SRE. Congrats, Abdirahman!
We are #UMNProud of the three Ph.D. students working with CS&E professors who have been named Doctoral Dissertation Fellows for the 2026-27 school year. The Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship is a highly competitive fellowship that gives the University’s most accomplished Ph.D. candidates an opportunity to devote full-time effort to an outstanding research project by providing time to finalize and write a dissertation during the fellowship year. The award includes a stipend of $25,000, tuition for up to 14 thesis credits each semester, and subsidized health insurance through the Graduate Assistant Health Plan.
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Associate Professor Junaed Sattar is the lead investigator on a project examining an invasive mystery snail species in Minnesota lakes. The $200K project is funded by the Environment and Natural Resources Trust Fund (ENRTF) and is a collaboration with the Minnesota Aquatic Invasive Species Research Center (MAISRC) within the University of Minnesota’s College of Food, Agricultural and Natural Resource Sciences (CFANS).
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This month’s Computing Figure is Dr. Bonnie Holub UMN alumna and chief architect at Infosys Consulting.
Computing Figures celebrates trailblazers in the field of computer science and STEM over the years. Find their display in the student services center in Lind Hall 324 and learn more about it at the link in our bio!
