Computer Sciences

(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]

Notes and more good news!