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". 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. ↑ Virginia Gold (November 9, 2009). "ACM Names 84 Distinguished Members for Advances in Computing Technology". Association for Computing Machinery. Retrieved January 12, 2026.
  8. ↑ Kumar, Neha (14 February 2023). "SIGCHI AWARDS 2023". Retrieved 2023-02-14.
  9. ↑ "Verona Terveen, 89". Capital Journal. February 9, 2012. Retrieved July 29, 2018.