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 …
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CS Grad Students achieve success in Three Minute Thesis Competition
by Elea Levin Computer Science graduate students Daniel Rakita and Andrew Schoen earned finalist and semifinalist ranks, respectively, in UW-Madison’s 2021-21 Three Minute Thesis competition. Over 60 graduate students participate in the competition this year …
Assistant Professor Yingyu Liang presented with prestigious NSF Career Award
UW-Madison Computer Sciences Assistant Professor Yingyu Liang has been awarded a prestigious NSF Career Award. The award is for “better understanding, robustness, and efficiency of deep learning.” Liang will be developing new theoretical models of properties of …
UW-Madison programming teams take ICPC by storm – for the 20th year in a row
By Elea Levin The regional round of the International Collegiate Programming Contest was held remotely on February 27 after being pushed back from November due to Covid-19. Ninety teams from the region competed in the …
Building better human-bot cybersecurity teams: University of Wisconsin-Madison led team wins prestigious US Department of Defense MURI grant
By Karen Barrett-Wilt A multi-university team led by Somesh Jha at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has won a prestigious US Department of Defense Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI) Award. Seven universities comprise the group: University …
“Data Science in Madison” class offers UW students real world projects
Read the Capital Times story about Dr. Tyler Caraza-Harter’s “Data Science in Madison” class, including City of Madison projects such as water usage and bus routes.
UW-Madison Computer Sciences Students Fill the COVID-19 gap with BadgerHacks
By Elea Levin On January 21 at 6 a.m.,125 people across the country and the world put their heads down and dove into three full days of coding. They were participating in BadgerHacks, a hackathon …
Assistant Professor Swamit Tannu joins UW-Madison Computer Sciences to teach Computer Architecture and Quantum Computing
Swamit Tannu, new assistant professor specializing in computer architecture and quantum computing, joins UW-Madison Computer Sciences from Georgia Tech, where he completed his PhD. His research focuses on “architecture and compilation techniques to mitigate hardware …
Assistant Professor Frederic Sala joins UW-Madison Computer Sciences to teach Machine Learning and Data Analytics
Frederic Sala joins the UW-Madison Computer Sciences Department from Stanford University where he was a postdoctoral scholar. He completed his PhD in electrical engineering at University of California-Los Angeles, where he studied machine learning, information …
Assistant Professor Yuhang Zhao joins UW-Madison Computer Sciences Department to teach Human-Computer Interaction
Yuhang Zhao joins the UW-Madison Computer Sciences Department from Cornell University, where she completed her PhD in Information Science. Zhao studies Human-Computer Interaction, and more specifically is interested in understanding “the diverse abilities that people …