College of Computing & Artificial Intelligence
The Chancellor’s Undergraduate Awards Ceremony was held online this year and honors include eight Computer Sciences undergraduates. Congratulations to all! You can read the full article here. CS honorees are as follows: Hilldale Undergraduate/Faculty Research Fellowships These fellowship provide students with funds to conduct research projects in collaboration with faculty members. The award provides $3,000 …
Yea-Seul Kim joins the CS Department from the University of Washington where she earned a PhD in information science. She had previously received an MS in human-centered design and engineering from the same university. Her main focus is “to develop models and interfaces that make data more comprehensible to help people reason with data and …
Computer Sciences Professor AnHai Doan’s startup GreenBay Technologies has recently been acquired by Informatica, an enterprise cloud data management company based in the Bay Area. UW–Madison CS PhD students Yash Govind (who has since graduated) and Derek Paulsen are cofounders of GreenBay Technologies, which is connected to the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF) at UW–Madison …
University of Wisconsin–Madison data scientists are harnessing big data and laying the foundations for major advances in data-rich applications thanks to a five-year, $4.6 million grant from the National Science Foundation. The team at UW–Madison is co-leading a cohort of institutions to study the theoretical underpinnings of the rapidly growing field of data science. The Institute for the Foundations of Data Science (IFDS) — with partners at the University of Washington, the University of California, Santa Cruz, and the University of Chicago — is being funded by a $12.5 million Phase II grant from NSF’s Transdisciplinary Research in Principles of Data Science (TRIPODS) program. $4.6 million is slated for UW–Madison.
Sharon Li, one of Forbes 30-under-30- Science honorees, joins the CS Department from a post-doc at Stanford University. Li has been interested in math and physics since high school, and when she discovered machine learning, she found that it “connected beautifully with mathematics and various scientific disciplines.” Li works in deep learning and artificial intelligence …
Sensors that catch just the minimum amount of light could be better than typical digital cameras at capturing everyday memories in challenging environments.
Computer Sciences Professor Miron Livny has been selected for two prestigious IEEE awards: the 2020 IEEE Technical Committee on Distributed Processing (TCDP) Award for Outstanding Technical Achievement and a 2020 IEEE TDCP ICDCS High Impact Paper Award. Livny is the John P. Morgridge Professor of Computer Sciences at UW–Madison. He is a faculty member in …
Computer Sciences Professor Aditya Akella has been chosen as a 2020 Finalist of the prestigious Blavatnik National Awards for Young Scientists. There were 305 nominations this year, and eleven were selected in the Physical Sciences and Engineering category. The Blavatnik Awards aim to support young scientists at a pivotal career juncture when money and visibility …
The University of Wisconsin–Madison has been awarded research funding into the development of future wireless systems as part of the Machine Learning for Wireless Networking Systems program (MLWiNS). This program, run by Intel and the National Science Foundation, supports research that accelerates innovation, focusing on enabling new wireless architectures that meet the density, throughput and …
Computer Sciences professors Loris D’Antoni and Aws Albarghouthi co-proposed a faculty cluster hire that was accepted and is available to hire three faculty over the next two years. Cluster hires are awarded by the Office of the Provost and are meant to foster collaborative research, education and outreach by creating new interdisciplinary areas of …