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MSI advances computational research across a broad range of disciplines.

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MSI PIs Named 2025-27 McKnight Land-Grant Professors

Awards

Six MSI PIs have been named McKnight Land-Grant Professors for 2025-27. These awards recognize promising junior faculty members. The entire list of awardees can be found on the U of M Scholars Walk we

2025 Distinguished McKnight University Professors

Awards

Eight MSI PIs have been named Distinguished McKnight University Professors. This program recognizes outstanding mid-career faculty members who have recently achieved full professor status.The complete

Distinguished Teachers in Graduate and Professional Education

Awards

The University of Minnesota annually recognizes faculty members for their outstanding contributions to teaching and learning. Three MSI PIs have received awards for Outstanding Contributions to Gradua

April 2025 Maintenance

Maintenance

On Wednesday, April 2, 2025, MSI staff will perform scheduled maintenance and upgrades to various MSI systems. During this month’s scheduled maintenance period, primary storage and Agate will be unava

MSI PIs Receive 2025 Morse-Alumni Awards

Awards

The University of Minnesota annually recognizes faculty members for their outstanding contributions to teaching and learning. Three MSI PIs have received the Horace T. Morse – University of Minnesota

Two MSI PIs Elected to National Academy of Engineering

Awards Engineering

Two MSI PIs, Professor Arthur Erman (Mechanical Engineering; Director, Earl E. Bakken Medical Devices Center) and Professor Roger Ruan (Bioproducts and Biosystems Engineering; Director, Center for Bio

Protecting Data in Social Networks

In the era of social media, the integrity of social network data is paramount. MSI PIs Tianxi Li (Assistant Professor, Statistics) and Xuan Bi (Assistant Professor, Information and Decision Sciences )

Large Learning Model for Cancer Characteristics

Extracting cancer tumor characteristics and other relevant data from these reports is vital for supporting clinical research in cancer domains and for other downstream use cases such as the secondary

Galaxy 2024

Galaxy is an integrated informatics solution supporting data analysis and research discovery that is used by hundreds of thousands of researchers worldwide. The Galaxy platform has been available at t

Agate Upgrade Boosts AI Research at UMN

The Minnesota Supercomputing Institute (MSI) has upgraded its high-performance computing cluster Agate. The upgrade greatly expands MSI's capacity for AI-related research and introduces new capabiliti

Aligning AI With Human Values

As ChatGPT took the world by storm in 2023, it became clear that AI systems will soon become ubiquitous in our lives. MSI PI Dongyeop Kang (assistant professor, Computer Science and Engineering) and M

Genetics of Human Milk Production

Breast feeding is widely accepted as the best way for infants to get the nutrition they need to grow and develop. Many factors contribute to the content of a mother’s milk. In the MILK (Mothers and In