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
Computer Sciences grad program now ranked #7 among public universities
UW–Madison's Computer Sciences graduate program is now ranked 7th among public universities and 13th overall (three-way tie) according to the 2025 edition of U.S. News & World Report’s “Best Graduate Schools.”
The spirit of MadHacks podcast: organizers explain their process and the hackathon’s impact
The organizers of MadHacks, "one of the largest hackathons in the midwest," discuss their process and impact with Professor Manolis Vlatakis.
In the People & Robots Lab, Hailey Johnson PhDx’26 is finding her own path
Through cross-campus collaboration and NSF funding, Johnson explores avenues for improving the fit, function, and accessibility of technology among Wisconsin adults with Down syndrome.
Paul Barford selected for Chancellor’s Teaching Innovation Award
Barford felt it was critical to equip computer science students with a basic understanding of moral and ethical principles and the ability to reason about the technologies they will develop.
Events
- May
- May 21Geospatial Data Science Speaker Series: Dr. Jinmeng RaoTrajectory Privacy Protection with Geospatial AI11:00 AM, 175 Science Hall
Good news provided by CS faculty:
(gathered by former Chair Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau)
April 2025:
- Prof Ilias Diakonikolas’s student Ankit Pensia (his first PhD graduate from UW Madison) will start as a tenure-track assistant professor at CMU, in the department of Statistics and Data Science. [1]
- Prof Steve Wright was invited to be a plenary speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM). [2]
- Prof Yuhang Zhao had the paper “Comparing Vibrotactile and Skin-Stretch Haptic Feedback for Conveying Spatial Information of Virtual Objects to Blind VR Users” accepted into IEEE VR 2025. [3]
- Prof Yuhang Zhao received Grant Accelerator Program (GAP) Award from the McPherson Eye Research Institute to work on “Intent-aware Systems to Enhance Low Vision People’s Visual Perception”. [4]
- Prof Michael Gleicher had the paper “Anytime Planning for End-Effector Trajectory Tracking” accepted into IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. [5]
- Prof Shivaram Venkataraman had the paper “Quake: Adaptive Indexing for Vector Search” accepted into OSDI ‘25. [6]
- Prof Paris Koutris gave the keynote speech for ICDT 2025 entitled “The Quest for Faster Join Algorithms”. [7]
- Prof Paris Koutris’s paper “Output-sensitive Conjunctive Query Evaluation” win the best paper award for PODS 2025. [8]
- Prof Paul Barford was named a Fellow of the UW Teaching Academy.[9]
- Prof Matt Sinclair gave three talks in recent weeks: “Rethinking the Control Plane for Chiplet-Based Heterogeneous Systems” at EPFL, “Rethinking the Control Plane for Chiplet-Based Heterogeneous Systems” at DOE SOS27 workshop, and “Leveraging Open-source Simulators to Enable HW/SW Co-Design of Next-generation HPC Systems” at the DOE ASCR PI Meeting. [10]
- Prof Bilge Mutlu and colleagues published “A qualitative exploration of parents and their children’s uses and gratifications of ChatGPT” in Family Relations. [11]
- Prof Somesh Jha and Prof Tej Chajed received a DARPA grant through the TRACTOR program. [12]
- Prof Somesh Jha’s paper on “SoK: Watermarking for AI-Generated Content” will appear at IEEE Security and Privacy, 2025. [13]
- Prof Miron Livny’s paper “BIRCH: an efficient data clustering method for very large databases” surpassed 8k citations. [14]
- Prof Mohit Gupta’s startup Ubicept was a “first round draft pick” in the inaugural TitletownTech “startup draft”. [15]