Loren Terveen | |
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![]() Loren Terveen in 2019 | |
Nationality | American |
Citizenship | United States |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Computer Science, Human-Computer Interaction |
Institutions | University 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 almost four thousand times in scientific research. [6]
In 2023, Terveen received SIGCHI's Lifetime Service Award. [7]
Terveen's family is from Emery, South Dakota. He now lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota. [8]