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
Alumni Highlight: Keith Noto (PhD ’07) – Principal Scientist at AncestryDNA
From a UW-Madison student to Principal Scientist at the largest provider of consumer DNA testing in the world, Keith Noto shares details on his trajectory and current role.
CS student uses AI to aid analysis of astronomical data
“I realized that there are many open mysteries in the universe waiting to be solved and, importantly, I could be a part of solving them,” says Karcheski.
CS student researches Venus from the UW Dorms
As part of the College of Letters & Science’s LASER program, a CS undergraduate spent the summer observing Venus through work that redefines what research means to them.
CDIS Career Fair Leads to Internship Success for Junior Aman Jain
"This opportunity helped solidify my interest in data science and analytics. Overall, I had a great experience at MGE and have gained some valuable skills and insight that I hope to apply in my future jobs,” says Jain.
Events
- October
- October 7Distinguished Lecture: Data Balancing and Multimodal AIZaid Harchaoui: Professor, University of Washington in Seattle, Department of Statistics, Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering4:00 PM, 1240 Computer Sciences
- October 8
- October 8MadSystems Seminar[Talk] Server Architecture in the Age of Serverless Computing4:00 PM, 4310 Computer Sciences
Also offered online - October 8
- October 9Statistics Seminar Scaling and Interpreting Treatment Effects in Clinical Trials Using Restricted Mean Survival Time by Ted Karrison4:00 PM, 133 Service Memorial Institute
Good news provided by CS faculty:
(gathered by former Chair Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau)
April 22, 2024:
- Once again, Prof Dieter van Melkebeek has led the University of Wisconsin to great heights in the 46th ICPC finals, including an incredible 8th place finish overall (2nd highest US school, behind only MIT). [1]
- Prof Mike Swift was named a Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor. [2]
- Prof Rahul Chatterjee was awarded a Reilly-Baldwin Wisconsin Idea Endowment Grant for his proposal “Supporting Survivors of Technology-Facilitated Intimate Partner Violence in Rural Wisconsin”. [3]
- Finally, let us once again congratulate our Chair Steve Wright for being awarded the prestigious Hilldale Professorship. [4]