Category: Awards

Guri Sohi elected Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors

The recognition honors Sohi's transformative innovations, which have shaped modern technology and society.

Code champions: How UW–Madison built a programming dynasty

One of Wisconsin's winningest teams doesn't compete in sports. For the seventh consecutive year, Badgers took first place at the International Collegiate Programming Contest regionals competition hosted by Epic.

Michael Gleicher inducted into IEEE Visualization Academy

Professor Michael Gleicher has been inducted into the IEEE Visualization Academy, one of the most prestigious career honors in the field of visualization.

Assistant Professor Ming Liu chosen as WARF Innovation Award finalist

Each fall the WARF Innovation Awards recognize some of the best inventions at UW–Madison. WARF receives hundreds of new invention disclosures each year. Of these disclosures, the WARF Innovation Award finalists are considered exceptional in the following criteria: Criteria Has potential for high long-term impact Presents an exciting solution to a known important problem Could produce broad …

Recognizing a Legacy of Leadership: Somesh Jha Earns 2025 SIGSAC Excellence in Service Award

Somesh Jha, Sheldon B. Lubar Professor of Computer Sciences at University of Wisconsin–Madison, has been selected to receive the 2025 ACM Special Interest Group on Security, Audit and Control (SIGSAC) Excellence in Service Award.

Somesh Jha Receives ACM CCS Test-of-Time Award

Somesh Jha, Sheldon B. Lubar Chair and Professor in the University of Wisconsin–Madison Department of Computer Sciences, has been recognized with the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS) 2025 Test-of-Time Award for his influential paper “Model Inversion Attacks that Exploit Confidence Information and Basic Countermeasures.”

Kirthevasan Kandasamy receives 2025 NSF CAREER Award

Breakthroughs happen when researchers collaborate and share data, but it’s hard to convince different organizations to trust each other. Kandasamy addresses this challenge — and society reaps the benefits.

Eight faculty members appointed teaching professors for ongoing excellence in education

Defined by their student-centered approaches to course material, these educators are recognized for their commitment to supporting young minds.

UW–Madison Team Honored with Best Student Paper Award at Premier Machine Learning Conference

UW–Madison Computer Sciences PhD student Lisheng Ren, his advisor Sheldon B. Lubar Professor Ilias Diakonikolas, and UC-San Diego Professor Daniel Kane have received the Mark Fulk Best Student Paper Award at the 2025 Conference on Learning Theory (COLT). COLT is the premier international conference on the mathematical foundations of machine learning and artificial intelligence.

Three Wisconsin CS professors receive inaugural Google ML and Systems Junior Faculty Awards

Jelena Diakonikolas, Sharon Li, and Shivaram Venkataraman are among the first recipients to receive new award from Google.