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Student Science Writer (part time for college student)

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Student Science Writer The Organization As an independent research organization, the Morgridge Institute for Research explores uncharted scientific territory to discover tomorrow’s cures. In affiliation with the University of Wisconsin–Madison, we support researchers who take a fearless approach to advancing human health in emerging fields such as regenerative biology, metabolism, virology and biomedical imaging. Through public programming, …

Student Web Developer (part time for area college student)

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Student Web Developer The Organization As an independent research organization, the Morgridge Institute for Research explores uncharted scientific territory to discover tomorrow’s cures. In affiliation with the University of Wisconsin–Madison, we support researchers who take a fearless approach to advancing human health in emerging fields such as regenerative biology, metabolism, virology and biomedical imaging. Through public programming, …

Research Software Engineer (full time)

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Research Software Engineer The Organization As an independent research organization, the Morgridge Institute for Research explores uncharted scientific territory to discover tomorrow’s cures. In affiliation with the University of Wisconsin–Madison, we support researchers who take a fearless approach to advancing human health in emerging fields such as regenerative biology, metabolism, virology and biomedical imaging. Through …

ChatGPT, explained

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Computer Sciences professors Jerry Zhu and Fred Sala explain ChatGPT in this short YouTube video created by the College of Letters & Science. Enjoy!

Studying the Past to Predict the Future: The History of Computer Architecture Is Here

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Computer Sciences professor Matt Sinclair, Computer Sciences graduate student Rutwik Jain, and their colleagues have analyzed 50 years of computer architecture – and are looking ahead to 50 more – in a recent International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA) paper analysis. They call this work a “data-driven retrospective” and have drawn their data from the …

CS Professor Sharon Li wins NSF CAREER award

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Computer Sciences faculty member Sharon Li has recently won National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Awards. Li joined the CS faculty in 2020 so is considered early in her career (pre-tenure). The NSF intends the awards to help early-career faculty build a firm foundation for a lifetime of leadership in integrating education and research. Li’s award …

Large Language Models panelists discuss ChatGPT and education in a lively Bay Area event

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Large language models (LLMs), including ChatGPT, and their effects and uses in education and industry, were the subject of a lively panel held recently in the Bay Area, hosted by the School of Computer, Data & Information Sciences (CDIS) and Computer Sciences Department (CS) the at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Entitled “The Future Frontier of …

CS Professors Sinclair and Venkataraman earn 2023 NSF CAREER Awards

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Two Computer Sciences faculty members, Matt Sinclair and Shivaram Venkataraman, have recently won National Science Foundation CAREER Awards. Sinclair and Venkataraman both joined the UW–Madison CS faculty in 2018 so are early (pre-tenure) in their careers. The NSF intends the awards to help early-career faculty build a firm foundation for a lifetime of leadership in …

CS PhD student Noah Cohen Kalafut’s research leads to more complete understanding of brain cell functions

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Scientists at the Waisman Center have recently had a paper published in Nature Machine Intelligence on their creation of a machine learning algorithm called JAMIE (Joint Variational Autoencoders for Multimodal Imputation and Embedding). JAMIE uses data from one modality, such as gene expression, to predict a missing modality, such as electrophysiology. This technique is called …

Three CS professors awarded funding through UW research partnership with American Family Insurance

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The UW–Madison Data Science Institute (DSI), powered by American Family Insurance, announced ten research projects selected for funding through a unique sponsored research partnership, including three Computer Sciences professors: Learning what is Relevant for Counterfactual Policy Evaluation PI: Josiah Hanna, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Sciences   Detecting AI-altered Images to Combat Claims Fraud PI: …