College of Computing & Artificial Intelligence
When Angela Thorp talks about her 19 years as graduate program manager in the Department of Computer Sciences, she doesn't lead with policy or paperwork. She leads with people. "I'm really a strong advocate for each and every student," she says.
Researchers at the Center for High Throughput Computing and the Morgridge Institute will collaborate on “FabAID,” a new AI-driven network connecting the nation's data, cyberinfrastructure, and computing resources.
From healthcare research to building campus community, this year’s crop of CDIS graduates is as impressive and ambitious as ever. Here’s to the class of 2026.
After nearly four decades of untangling some of the most complex mathematical puzzles in optimization, Professor Michael Ferris is stepping back — or at least stepping sideways. The John P. Morgridge Chair and Jacques-Louis Lions Professor of Computer Sciences at the University of Wisconsin–Madison will officially retire on June 30, closing a chapter that began when a young Cambridge mathematician arrived in Madison for what was supposed to be just one year.
On May 8, 2026, graduating PhD students walked across the floor in the Hello, World classroom in Morgridge Hall and received their hoods as the culmination of their graduate careers. Now they are alumni and headed to careers in fields that vary from industry to academia.
University of Wisconsin–Madison Computer Sciences professor Ilias Diakonikolas has received the 2026 Gödel Prize, one of the highest honors in theoretical computer science, for transformational work in robust high-dimensional learning – the study of how algorithms can learn reliably from large, complex datasets even when some of the data has been corrupted.
Computer Sciences Assistant Professor Charles Yuan's paper Cobble: Compiling Block Encodings for Quantum Computational Linear Algebra has won a Distinguished Paper Award at the 47th ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI 2026).
“We do very practical things that can have a real impact,” Banerjee says. “We are always looking for interesting collaborations with people who feel that they have an interesting problem.”