CS majors Fall 2024
811%Percentage of growth in number of Comp Sci undergrads in the last 10 years
$128KAverage starting salary for graduates of the Professional Master’s Program
CS News
CS students head to DC’s Capitol Hill to present on AI safety
Members of the Wisconsin AI Safety Initiative visited the Rayburn House Office Building to lead presentations and live demos highlighting the dangers associated with artificial intelligence’s growing popularity.
Read Badger Bytes: 60th Anniversary Edition
This anniversary edition of the alumni newsletter journeys through the decades, highlighting incredible alumni, spotlighting students, and anticipating CS's bright future.
Making Social Media Safe
UW educational psychology professor Amy Bellmore pioneered cyberbullying research through a collaboration with UW computer sciences professor Jerry Zhu.
UW–Madison researchers win prestigious Sloan fellowships
UW–Madison’s 2025 Sloan Fellows are James Roberts Crall, assistant professor of entomology, and Sharon Yixuan Li, assistant professor of computer sciences.
Events
- March
- March 17"Vision-Language Models for Radiology AI" by Dr. Akshay Chaudhari, PhDML4MI Seminar Series10:00 AM, Online
- March 17Talk: Neurosymbolic Programming with Scallop: Design, Implementation, and ApplicationsZiyang Li: PhD Candidate, Computer Science, University of Pennsylvania12:00 PM, 1240 Computer Sciences
- March 18Talk: Bridging the Semantic Gap between Autonomous System Requirements and Complex Sensor Data Trey Woodlief: Final-year Ph.D. Candidate, Computer Science, University of Virginia12:00 PM, 1240 Computer Sciences
- March 18
- March 19
Good news provided by CS faculty:
(gathered by former Chair Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau)
February 2025:
- Prof Jerry Zhu was named a Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor. [1]
- Prof Jelena Diakonikolas received her NSF CAREER award. [2]
- Prof Paul Barford won the Chancellor’s Teaching Innovation Award. [3]
- Prof Patrick McDaniel gave a Distinguished Seminar at Iowa State entitled “Adversarial Machine Learning: A 10-year Perspective.” [4]
- Prof Miron Livny gave a talk entitled “PATh – Partnership to Advance Throughput Computing”. [5]
- Former Prof Jim Larus’s student, Dr.Satish Chandra, was named an ACM Fellow. See details below about the history of PL alums being recognized as ACM Fellows – there are at least two others! – below. [6]
- Prof Mike Swift and former Prof Mark Hill’s student, Dr. Arka Basu, won the ACM India ECR Award for 2024. [7]
- Prof Bilge Mutlu had three papers accepted at CHI this year, each led by UW students. [8]
- Prof Matt Sinclair had the paper “GOLDYLOC: Global Optimizations & Lightweight Dynamic Logic for Concurrency” accepted into ACM TACO. [9]
- Prof Matt Sinclair gave a talk entitled “Designing Hardware to Meet the Demands of Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence” and participated on a panel at the Wisconsin Energy Institute. [10]
- Congratulations to Prof Andrea Arpaci-Dusseau (2x), Prof Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau (2x), Prof Steve Wright (and former Prof Theo Rekatsinas), Prof Yingyu Liang, and affiliated faculty Prof Kassem Fawaz and Prof Yu Hen Hu for their work in advising the students listed below to completion of their PhDs. [11]
- Congratulations to Prof Shivaram Venkataraman, Prof Matt Sinclair, Prof Patrick McDaniel (2x), Prof Xiangyao Yu, Prof Rishab Goyal, Prof Rahul Chatterjee (2x), Prof Yong Jae Lee, Prof Tom Reps, Prof Mohit Gupta, Prof Aws Albarghouthi, Prof Michael Gleicher, Prof Xiangyao Yu, and Prof Fred Sala and affiliated faculty Prof Kevin Ponto, Prof Junjie Hu (3x), and Prof Sushmita Roy for their work in advising the students listed below to completion of their Master’s Theses or Projects. [12]
- Prof Akarsh Prabhakara had the paper “Shape-programming Robotic Reflectors for Wireless Networks” accepted into ICRA. [13]
- Prof Fred Sala had papers accepted into ICLR (“Weak-to-Strong Generalization Through the Data-Centric Lens”) and NAACL (“Personalize Your LLM: Fake It Then Align It”). [14]