ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, has named 95 members ACM Fellows for wide-ranging and fundamental contributions in areas including artificial intelligence, cloud computing, computer graphics, computational biology, data science, human-computer interaction, software engineering, theoretical computer science, and virtual reality, among other areas. The accomplishments of the 2020 ACM Fellows have driven innovations that ushered in significant improvements across many areas of technology, industry, and personal life
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exploreCSR grant helps UW-Madison Computer Sciences provide research opportunities to underrepresented students
Computer Sciences professors Jelena Diakonikolas and Shivaram Venkataraman have been awarded an exploreCSR grant from Google to encourage underrepresented students at the undergraduate level to pursue CS research and apply to graduate programs. Diakonikolas and …
Professor Stephen Wright Announced Winner of the Test of Time Award at 2020 NeurIPS Conference
By Sunčana Pavlic UW-Madison Computer Sciences professor Stephen Wright and three colleagues formerly from the department were announced winners of the Test of Time Award at the 2020 Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS). …
Stephen Wright wins 2020 INFORMS Optimization Society Khachiyan Prize
Computer Sciences Professor Stephen Wright has won the INFORMS Optimization Society Khachiyan Prize “For his vast contributions to continuous optimization, spanning theory, algorithms and software, and the impact of his work on control, signal processing, …
Mohit Gupta chosen for Sony Research Faculty Innovation Award
Mohit Gupta has just received a Sony Research Faculty Innovation Award for his work on single-photon imaging. Single-photon sensors are an exciting new sensor technology that have the unique ability to capture individual photons of light with …
National Science Foundation establishes a partnership to advance throughput computing
By Brian Mattmiller, Morgridge Institute for Research Recognizing the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s leadership role in research computing, the National Science Foundation announced this month that the Madison campus will be home to a five-year, $22.5 …
Computer Sciences Professor Mark Hill retires after 32 years at UW-Madison
It is with both sadness and happiness that we announce Mark D. Hill’s retirement from UW-Madison and the beginning of a new chapter as Professor Emeritus. We congratulate Mark on a fruitful and successful tenure …
Eight Computer Sciences undergrad honorees awarded scholarships
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 …
Yea-Seul Kim, assistant professor in HCI, visualization, and data science, joins UW-Madison Department of Computer Sciences
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 …
Computer Sciences Professor AnHai Doan’s GreenBay Technologies Acquired by Informatica
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) …