150 experts, legislators, and practitioners convened at Morgridge Hall for the inaugural AI Meets Society (AIMS) Symposium.
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Brennen Hill x’26 Is Building AI Inspired by the Brain
The human brain remains the most intelligent and general information processing system on earth — so what if we built AI to match it? That’s the question driving two related fields: neuromorphic computing, which designs hardware and software modeled on the brain’s structure, and neuroAI, which applies biological principles to build more adaptable and efficient artificial intelligence.
Xinning He PhDx’30 named Kohler Science Fellow
The Wisconsin Institute for Discovery is pleased to introduce the newest cohort of the Kohler Fellows, a prestigious program that cultivates interdisciplinary collaboration at the threshold of science and the humanities. Each year, the Kohler …
Nikhil Trivedi x’26 wins GAMSPy Student Competition 2025
Nikhil Trivedi, a dual-major undergraduate student in Computer Science and Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences, is the winner of the GAMSPy Student Competition for Fall 2025
A Classroom Built Around Builders
When students filed into the lecture hall for the first session of a new entrepreneurship course in the Computer Sciences department, the energy felt different from a typical class. This wasn’t a syllabus review or a technical deep dive. Instead, it was a fireside chat with one of the most consequential technology founders in healthcare: Judy Faulkner MS’67, founder and CEO of Epic.
CS alumni elected to the National Academy of Engineering
The University of Wisconsin–Madison Department of Computer Sciences congratulates two distinguished alumni, Anastasia Ailamaki PhD’00 and Doug Burger PhD’98, on their election to the National Academy of Engineering (NAE), one of the highest professional honors in engineering.
Siddharth Singh x’27 Builds Startups and Community Through Code
For Singh, CS was a launchpad for building companies, pivoting quickly when ideas don’t work, and finding community in the process.
Mohit Gupta wins 2026-27 UW-Madison Vilas Award
The Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research has announced 24 faculty winners of the Vilas Associates Competition. The competition recognizes “new and ongoing research of the highest quality and significance.” Tenure-track assistant professors and tenured …
Matt Sinclair is optimizing the future of computer architecture with open source
“We have been approaching a point where we’re becoming very power constrained,” Sinclair said. “My group works to maximize the performance of workloads with a smaller than ideal power budget.”
Matt Sinclair receives Department of Energy Early-Career Award
Matt Sinclair, assistant professor in the University of Wisconsin–Madison Department of Computer Sciences, has received a US Department of Energy Early Career Award in recognition of his pioneering research in computer architecture and high-performance computing (HPC) systems. “This award gives us the opportunity to push the boundaries of what’s possible in computing — and to train the next generation of researchers who will carry that work forward,” says Sinclair.