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
UW-Madison research is $1.7B operation ready to grow, new leader says
UWMadison's new Vice Chancellor for Research Dorota Grejner-Brzezińska recently spoke with The Capital Times about growing research efforts, which recently topped $1.7 billion in annual spending. Two areas stand out: AI and cyber security.
Students pitch Google at N+1’s AI sustainability competition
Asmita Pal, Zhewen Pan, and Elise Song won first place at a recent “reverse pitch” competition hosted by Google and CS' N+1 Institute.
Celebrating December 2024 Computer Sciences graduates
Hundreds of newly-minted Wisconsin alumni will walk at commencement on Sunday, December 15. We’re introducing a few of our most accomplished graduates.
U.S. Cyber Command visit highlights UW–Madison’s leadership in cyber research and education
The U.S. Cyber Command delegation toured labs, visited classrooms, and held the first-ever USCYBERCOM Tech Talk hosted by an academic institution.
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Good news provided by CS faculty:
(gathered by former Chair Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau)
November 2024:
- Prof Patrick McDaniel and colleagues won the ACSAC 2024 Test of Time Award, for their work on “Semantically Rich Application-Centric Security in Android”. [1]
- Prof Dieter van Melkebeek once again led six teams to great success in the regional round of this year’s International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC); they finished in 1st, 4th, 7th, 8th, 10th, and 20th place among nearly one hundred teams in the region. [2]
- Prof Fred Sala and his group had the following four papers accepted at NeurIPS, including one which received the Spotlight designation: “The AlCHEmist: Automated Labeling 500x CHEaper than LLM Data Annotators (Spotlight)”, “OTTER: Effortless Label Distribution Adaptation of Zero-shot Models”, “Stronger Than You Think: Benchmarking Weak Supervision on Realistic Tasks”, and “Pearls from Pebbles: Improved Confidence Functions for Auto-labeling”. [3]
- Prof Sharon Li gave a talk entitled “Steering Large Language Models by Human Preferences” at the UW-Madison Center for the Humanities. [4]
- Prof Bart Miller had an article written about his impact at Supercomputing entitled “Three Chairs and a Research Booth: How One PhD Advisor Shaped the SC Committee”. [5]
- Prof Bart Miller, working with Justin Hines, set up a pioneering engagement between our department and Apple. [6]
- UW students (including the UPL and others) organized MadHacks, an amazing hackathon hosted in our department, now annually. [7]
- Prof Manolis Vlatakis and colleagues had the paper “Contracting with a Learning Agent” accepted into NeurIPS 2024. [8]
- Prof Ming Liu had a PRIME grant on “EFabric” funded by D2P. [9]
- Prof Patrick McDaniel gave a Distinguished Lecture at UIUC entitled “”Adversarial Machine Learning: A 10-year Perspective”. [10]
- Prof Matt Sinclair gave an invited keynote at CAMS entitled “Reducing the GAP: Improving the Fidelity and Scalability of gem5’s GPU Models”. [11]
- Prof Rishab Goyal had two publications at the upcoming Asiacrypt: “Non-interactive Blind Signatures: Post-quantum and Stronger Security” and “Leakage-Resilient Incompressible Cryptography: Constructions and Barriers”. [12]