“ImageInThat: Manipulating Images to Convey User Instructions to Robots” wins Best Paper Award at the 20th edition of the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction.
Awards
Guri Sohi receives 2025 IEEE CS Computer Pioneer Award in Honor of the Women of ENIAC
A legacy of innovation: Professor Gurindar Sohi wins prestigious Computer Pioneer Award
PhD student Sean Xuefeng Du earns 2025 Ivanisevic Award
Recently, doctoral candidate Sean Xuefeng Du PhDx’25 was named this year’s recipient of the Ivanisevic Award, a distinction granted to graduate students researching their dissertation. Du, who is advised by Professor Sharon Li, came to …
Alum Jing Liu wins Best Paper Award at USENIX File and Storage Systems Conference
We’ve all experienced an untimely computer crash while working on an important file or playing a game, only to reboot and discover that the document or game progress has been corrupted—or worse, lost. As a …
Paris Koutris’ award-winning research addresses the “fundamental problem” of database theory
At the 2023 and 2024 Symposiums on Principles of Database Systems, Koutris received a string of awards for his groundbreaking research on join processing.
Jelena Diakonikolas receives NSF CAREER Award
By applying optimization methods to machine learning tasks, Diakonikolas is “creating the theory from the bottom up.”
CS assistant professor Yuhang Zhao developing AI and AR technology to support day-to-day activities of people with low vision
A recent NIH, NEI-funded R01 award will enable Zhao and collaborators to support people with low vision by using AI to empower them in real-life activities.
For Eric Pauley PhDx’25, Outstanding Graduate Student Research Award is just the beginning
“It’s a manifestation of the opportunities that have been available to me with Wisconsin and CDIS,” says Pauley. “Since moving here, I’ve just been inspired.”
Professor Ilias Diakonikolas awarded prestigious H.I. Romnes Faculty Fellowship
Computer Sciences professor Ilias Diakonikolas has been awarded a 2024-25 H.I. Romnes Faculty Fellowship for “exceptional research contributions” within his first six years in a tenured position. See more in this University of Wisconsin-Madison story. …
Assistant Professor Rahul Chatterjee receives NSF CAREER Award
With MadS&P and DAIS, Chatterjee develops solutions for the growing concern of technology-facilitated abuse.