College of Computing & Artificial Intelligence
By Elea Levin One hundred and three participants competed in the first ever UW–Madison Datathon on October 16 and 17, hosted by the UW–Madison Data Science Club. In addition to the hackathon, the event included multiple speaker series where students were able to hear from event sponsors about the application of data to various career …
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Reddy felt that one of the side effects of the pandemic was the absence of vital social learning that happens with in-person classes. They wanted to set themselves up for a productive academic year, where they could fully understand the content in their classes.
By Elea Levin Have you played a game on your phone today? Maybe you participated in a rec or club sports game over the weekend? Did you have a Monopoly night with your roommates last week? If so, you are not alone! Almost 100% of undergraduate students have played a game today – and you …
Matt Amodio was recently eliminated from the game of Jeopardy, but not before he set the second longest all-time win streak in the show’s history.
Two new GPU servers recently acquired by the American Family Insurance Data Science Institute (DSI) at UW–Madison honor the memory of Dr. Olvi Mangasarian, who passed away in March 2020.
Josiah Hanna comes to UW–Madison from earning his PhD at the University of Texas-Austin. Hanna works at the intersection of machine learning and robotics, focusing on reinforcement learning (RL). RL “allows computers and robots to learn from trial and error interaction how to successfully complete tasks rather than being explicitly programmed how to complete the …
Yong Jae Lee comes to UW–Madison from an artificial intelligence visiting faculty position at Cruise and before that from faculty positions at University of California-Davis. Lee studies Computer Vision – “enabling machines to ‘see’ the visual world.” Lee believes it is important to share his work widely, in keeping with the Wisconsin Idea: “It’s very …
Ming Liu joins the UW–Madison Computer Sciences Department as an assistant professor after earning his PhD in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Washington. His research focuses on networking and systems and using new network hardware trends to develop new, cost effective software systems. Hometown: Helong, China Educational/professional background: I earned my PhD …