Loren Terveen

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Loren Terveen
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Loren Terveen in 2019
NationalityAmerican
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]

References

  1. "Officers and Committees". Association for Computing Machinery - SIGCHI . Archived from the original on August 26, 2015. Retrieved August 13, 2015.
  2. Terveen, Loren (2015). "Greetings from the new SIGCHI leadership". ACM Interactions. Retrieved 2020-08-06.
  3. Brown, Kristen V. (August 17, 2014). "Pinterest working to get more men onboard". San Francisco Chronicle . Retrieved August 13, 2015.
  4. "Loren Terveen Named New Department Head". Department of Computer Science & Engineering | College of Science and Engineering | University of Minnesota. Retrieved 2025-05-23.
  5. Farniok, Benjamin (July 8, 2015). "U professor's bike app gets revisions". Minnesota Daily . Archived from the original on July 17, 2015. Retrieved August 13, 2015.
  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. S2CID   207731647.
  7. Kumar, Neha (14 February 2023). "SIGCHI AWARDS 2023" . Retrieved 2023-02-14.
  8. "Verona Terveen, 89". Capital Journal . February 9, 2012. Retrieved July 29, 2018.