College of Computing & Artificial Intelligence
Associate Professor of Computer Sciences Loris D’Antoni has been awarded the 2021 Phillip R. Certain-Gary D. Sandefur Letters & Science Distinguished Faculty Award. This award honors a faculty member in the College of Letters and Sciences and recognizes their outstanding teaching. Honorees for the award are nominated by the academic Associate Deans in the college …
By Elea Levin A paper written by PhD student Samuel Drews and Computer Sciences Professors Aws Albarghouthi and Loris D’Antoni was recognized as a 2021 SIGPLAN Research Highlight. Of the paper entitled “Proving Data-Poisoning Robustness in Decision Trees,” D’Antoni says, “This work is the first of his kind, as it’s trying to provide formal proofs …
Computer Sciences Professor Jin-Yi Cai has been awarded the Fulkerson Prize for work in discrete mathematics. He received the award in recognition of his article “Complexity of Counting CSP with Complex Weights,” jointly with Xi Chen of Columbia University, which was published in the Journal of the ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) in 2017. The …
Professor Mohit Gupta and colleagues at the Wisconsin Computational Imaging and Vision Lab (WISIONLab) at UW–Madison have been awarded an additional year of funding by the Sony Research Award Program (SRAP) for their research project “Single Photon Imaging”. Dr. Makiko Kan, General Manager at Sony’s R&D Laboratory, said that Gupta and colleagues’ “outstanding performance in …
Computer Sciences Professor Somesh Jha has received a Distinguished Alumni Award from the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IIT Delhi) in recognition of his outstanding achievements in teaching and research. Jha joins a prestigious group of alumni from IIT Delhi who have made important contributions in science and technology, corporate governance, and public and social …
Postdoc Sushrut Karmalkar has joined UW–Madison this fall as a research associate with Professor Ilias Diakonikolas. In his own words: My choice of UW–Madison had to do with its excellent research atmosphere and a very active theory and machine learning community that works on robust statistics and related fields. Additionally, the Institute for the Foundations …
Ferris and Corey Jackson, assistant professor at the UW–Madison Information School in CDIS, are developing a vaccine fairness recommendation engine that will support equitable decision making . . .
By Elea Levin There is no such thing as a typical week in Computer Sciences 202: Computer Science Principles, taught through the UW–Madison Summer Collegiate Experience (SCE) program. From speakers to labs to opportunities for students to share what personally interests them most, Information School Faculty Associate Dorothea Salo described an outline for the course …
First responders make split second decisions under stressful conditions that may make the difference between life and death. Thanks to UW–Madison Computer Sciences professor Suman Banerjee and his team, the tools first responders rely on are about to become more reliable. Banerjee, Computer Sciences professor Yuhang Zhao, and Design Studies professor Kevin Ponto have received …
By Elea Levin With technology evolving faster than ever and bringing important benefits to countless individuals’ lives, Professor Paul Barford decided to create a course that gives students a chance to explore the ethical risks of these technologies that are often not discussed. “I hope that all of the students who take this class who …