College of Computing & Artificial Intelligence
2,022 students now declared majors By Nicole Herzog In 2011, just 200 students were Computer Science majors. A decade later, the number of students enrolled in the discipline has grown more than ten times—a direct response to significant student interest and industry demand in our increasingly technology-driven society. In the last ten years, the Computer …
Seven Computer Sciences majors were awarded Hilldale Undergraduate/Faculty Research Fellowships at the recent Chancellor’s Undergraduate Awards Ceremony. Grants are awarded to undergraduates and their faculty/staff advisors for research collaboration. The CS students and faculty winners and their research projects are listed below. Congratulations, all! Shu Liu; Aditya Akella, advisor; HyperAPX: Leveraging Approximation for Fast Hyperparameter …
Professor Jin-Yi Cai of the Department of Computer Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has been jointly awarded the prestigious Gödel Prize in theoretical computer science.
Professor Jin-Yi Cai of the Department of Computer Sciences at the University of Wisconsin–Madison has been jointly awarded the prestigious Gödel Prize in theoretical computer science. The award is sponsored by the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science and the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Special Interest Group on Algorithms and Computation Theory (SIGACT). The …
Year in school: Sophomore Hometown: Ottawa Hills, Ohio What made you decide to double major in these two areas and how do they work together? I originally decided to major in Computer Science because I really enjoyed writing computer programs that can do in millionths of a second what would take humans hours or even …
Year in school: Sophomore Hometown: Wuhan, China What made you decide to double major in these two areas and how do they work together? I decided to double major because both fields interest me greatly, and they also go hand in hand with each other. Data science helps me apply my knowledge of computer science …
Incoming faculty member Ming Liu was awarded honorable mention for the 2021 ACM SIGCOMM Doctoral Dissertation Award for Outstanding Ph.D. Thesis in Computer Networking and Data Communication from the Association for Computing Machinery’s Special Interest Group on Data Communications. Liu was recognized for “identifying and enabling novel uses of programmable network devices in data centers, including …
By Nicole Herzog Imagine a world where workers have the ability to avoid life-threatening situations: A vulnerable human aerospace manufacturer once had to stand beneath the wing of a colossal aircraft, and now a life-sized robot takes their place in assembling the plane. The robot extends its mechanical arm, grasping tools in one hand while …
The Computer Sciences Department finished the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s 2021 Day of the Badger fundraising effort on April 7 with 132 individual donations for a total of $29.5K – over three times more donors and donations than the last Day of the Badger in 2019. This was made possible by the generosity of our donors …
By Elea Levin While most students have to wait for an internship to get hands-on experience working with a company in their field, a group of undergraduates had the opportunity to gain this real world experience through one of their UW–Madison Computer Sciences classes. The Computer Sciences Department launched a new Capstone course this fall …