About GroupLens

GroupLens is a research lab in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Minnesota. We conduct research in several areas, including:

  • recommender systems
  • online communities
  • mobile and ubiquitous technologies
  • digital libraries
  • local geographic information systems



Most of our current group members:

  • Row 1 (left to right): Jack Kolb, Anuradha Uduwage, Mikhil Masli, Morten Warncke-Wang
  • Row 2: Shilad (and Sidney) Sen, Landon Bouma, Tien Nguyen, Aaron Halfaker, Tony Lam
  • Row 3: Angela Brandt, Steven Chang, Chuan Shi, Jacob Thiebault-Spieker, Kenneth Shores, Joseph Konstan, Fernando Torre
  • Row 4: Michael Ekstrand, John Riedl, Michael Ludwig, Daniel Kluver, Loren Terveen, Aditya Pal

We gratefully acknowledge the support of the National Science Foundation under research grants IIS 05-34420, IIS 05-34692, IIS 03-24851, IIS 03-07459, CNS 02-24392, IIS 01-02229, IIS 99-78717, IIS 97-34442, DGE 95-54517, IIS 96-13960, IIS 94-10470, IIS 08-08692, BCS 07-29344, IIS 09-68483, IIS 10-17697, IIS 09-64695 and IIS 08-12148.