Biography:Loren Terveen

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Loren Terveen
Loren Terveen in 2019
CitizenshipUnited States
AwardsACM Distinguished Member
Scientific career
FieldsComputer science, human-computer interaction
InstitutionsUniversity of Minnesota

Loren Terveen is an American computer scientist and was the president of the Association for Computing Machinery's SIGCHI professional group from 2015 to 2018.[1][2] Terveen is a professor of computer science and engineering[3] and studies human-computer interaction at GroupLens Research at the University of Minnesota. Since 2025, he has served as the head of the Computer Science department.[4]

In 2008, Terveen and colleagues created Cyclopath, a path recommender system for cyclists in Minneapolis-Saint Paul, Minnesota.[5] Terveen co-authored the article "Evaluating collaborative filtering recommender systems", which has been cited over eight thousand times in scientific research.[6]

In 2009, he was elected an ACM Distinguished Member.[7]

In 2023, Terveen received SIGCHI's Lifetime Service Award.[8]

Terveen's family is from Emery, South Dakota. He now lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota.[9]

References

  1. "Officers and Committees". http://www.sigchi.org/people/officers. 
  2. Terveen, Loren (2015). "Greetings from the new SIGCHI leadership". https://interactions.acm.org/archive/view/september-october-2015/greetings-from-the-new-sigchi-leadership. 
  3. Brown, Kristen V. (August 17, 2014). "Pinterest working to get more men onboard". San Francisco Chronicle. http://www.sfgate.com/technology/article/Pinterest-working-to-get-more-men-onboard-5694340.php. 
  4. "Loren Terveen Named New Department Head" (in en). https://cse.umn.edu/cs/news/loren-terveen-named-new-department-head. 
  5. Farniok, Benjamin (July 8, 2015). "U professor's bike app gets revisions". Minnesota Daily. http://www.mndaily.com/news/campus/2015/07/08/u-professor%E2%80%99s-bike-app-gets-revisions. 
  6. Herlocker, Jonathan L.; Konstan, Joseph A.; Terveen, Loren G.; Riedl, John T. (2004). "Evaluating collaborative filtering recommender systems". ACM Transactions on Information Systems 22 (1): 5–53. doi:10.1145/963770.963772. https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl=en&user=r6cAovIAAAAJ&citation_for_view=r6cAovIAAAAJ:u5HHmVD_uO8C. 
  7. Virginia Gold (November 9, 2009). "ACM Names 84 Distinguished Members for Advances in Computing Technology". https://www.acm.org/media-center/2009/november/acm-names-84-distinguished-members-for-advances-in-computing-technology. 
  8. Kumar, Neha (14 February 2023). "SIGCHI AWARDS 2023" (in en-US). https://sigchi.org/sigchi-awards-2023/. 
  9. "Verona Terveen, 89". Capital Journal. February 9, 2012. https://www.capjournal.com/news/obituaries/verona-terveen/article_5c15d98a-52db-11e1-bbd6-0019bb2963f4.html. 
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