College of Computing & Artificial Intelligence
Professor Ilias Diakonikolas of the University of Wisconsin’s Department of Computer Sciences has been named a Guggenheim Fellow by the Board of Trustees of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. The board appointed the 101st class of Guggenheim Fellows, including 223 distinguished individuals working across 55 disciplines. Chosen through a rigorous application and peer review …
A team of researchers from UW–Madison has received the best paper award from the ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) CHI conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, also known as CHI’26, for their paper Trauma-Informed Digital Evidence Collection: A Design Inquiry into Evidence Practices for Technology-Facilitated Abuse in Intimate Partner Violence: Sophie Stephenson Naman Gupta …
The Wisconsin Institute for Discovery is pleased to introduce the newest cohort of the Kohler Fellows, a prestigious program that cultivates interdisciplinary collaboration at the threshold of science and the humanities. Each year, the Kohler Fellows program brings together exceptional graduate students from diverse disciplines to work with innovative research, public engagement, and creative exploration. …
Nikhil Trivedi, a dual-major undergraduate student in Computer Science and Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences, is the winner of the GAMSPy Student Competition for Fall 2025
The University of Wisconsin–Madison Department of Computer Sciences congratulates two distinguished alumni, Anastasia Ailamaki PhD’00 and Doug Burger PhD’98, on their election to the National Academy of Engineering (NAE), one of the highest professional honors in engineering.
The Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research has announced 24 faculty winners of the Vilas Associates Competition. The competition recognizes “new and ongoing research of the highest quality and significance.” Tenure-track assistant professors and tenured faculty within 20 years of their tenure date are eligible.
Matt Sinclair, assistant professor in the University of Wisconsin–Madison Department of Computer Sciences, has received a US Department of Energy Early Career Award in recognition of his pioneering research in computer architecture and high-performance computing (HPC) systems. "This award gives us the opportunity to push the boundaries of what’s possible in computing — and to train the next generation of researchers who will carry that work forward," says Sinclair.
The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) has named Michael Gleicher a 2025 Fellow for his contributions to graphics, multimedia, visualization, and robotics.