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  • Louis Yu

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    “After a week of teaching I was certain that teaching was what I wanted to do for the rest of my life.” What are your areas of research and teaching expertise? My main research interests span the areas of social network analysis and web mining. I have also worked on projects in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI),…

  • Zoya Akhtar ’26

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    harrietanderson

    “I have learned great things from each professor and I know what things I will want to implement in my future career as well.” With intended majors in Mathematics and Computer Science, Zoya’s passion for math started when she was young, always having enjoyed helping others with their math homework and appreciating her own math…

  • Dr. Dongji Feng Joins MCS Department

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    anienow2

        The MCS Department is excited to welcome Dr. Dongji Feng. Dr Feng comes to us after earning his PhD in computer science from Auburn University.  His research interests are in auto machine learning, auto text generation, and information retrieval.   

  • Dr. Guarionex Salivia joins the MCS Department

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    anienow2

      The MCS Department is excited to welcome Dr. Guarionex Salivia back to the department. Dr. Salivia was a visiting computer science instructor in 2012. He returns to the department after 11 years as a professor at the University of Minnesota at Mankato. Dr. Salivia’s research interests are in human computer interaction

  • Gusties Compete in Programming Contest

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    anienow2

      Congratulations to Wenlei Yu, Josie Bierbaum, and Lucas Hartfiel  for correctly solving three problems in the 2021 – 2022 International Collegiate Programming Contest.  Team JLW from Gustavus finished 58th out of 96 teams in the North Central North American Region. This is quite an accomplishment given that many of the teams in the region had at least one…

  • Teaching a Machine Learning Camp

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    anienow2

    Check out the October/November issue of the MAA FOCUS  for an article on teaching a machine learning camp written by Dr. Melissa Lynn.    

  • Navy Vet Sees World, Returns Home to Study at Gustavus

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    jakin

    Chris Marlatt’s U.S. Navy journey spanned a dozen years, four continents, and prepared him for success in the classroom and in life.

  • Josie Bierbaum ’23 Earns Scholarship in Analytics

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    The scholarship from MinneAnalytics supports Bierbaum’s research in data mining and machine learning.

  • Upgrades

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    anienow2

    The MCS department made some upgrades over the summer.  The iMacs that were in Olin 326 have been replaced with a PC that runs the latest release of Ubuntu.  The hardware change was made to compliment upcoming changes to the Computer Science major.  The department also added a 3rd generation Threadripper with a 3970 X…