Year in school (and/or when you expect to graduate): Junior – (May 2021) Hometown: Monterrey, Mexico Which major came first? Or did you decide to pursue them both at the same time? I initially wanted …
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Amanda Robinson, Computer Sciences & Spanish
Year in school (and/or when you expect to graduate): Senior, expected graduation May 2020 Hometown: Oregon, WI Why are you pursuing degrees in both of your areas? I am pursuing both because I am passionate …
Ph.D Student Yannis Chronis Wins 2020 Facebook Fellowship Award
By John Mak UW-Madison Computer Sciences Ph.D student Yannis Chronis has been awarded a 2020 Facebook Fellowship for his work in structured data stores. Every year, the Facebook Fellowship program awards Ph.D candidates conducting research in important topics across …
HTCondor: Paving the Way to the Future
By John Mak Before 1988, a study involving tens of thousands of pieces of data would have been a scientist’s life’s work. Years spent meticulously measuring, tabulating, and hypothesizing would mean that only the most …
Graduate Student Jinwoo Kim Wins POPL Student Research Competition
By John Mak Jinwoo Kim, a graduate student in programming languages in the Department of Computer Sciences at UW-Madison, has won the 2020 Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages (POPL) Student Research Competition (SRC) with …
Computer Sciences Professor Shuchi Chawla wins 2020 Distinguished Teaching Award
Professor Shuchi Chawla of the Computer Sciences Department has won the 2020 Chancellor’s Teaching Innovation Award, one of this year’s Distinguished Teaching Awards. “This award recognizes the hard work numerous peer mentors and TAs have …
CS Department welcomes Xiangyao Yu, Assistant Professor in Database Systems and Computer Architecture
Xiangyao Yu comes to the Department of Computer Sciences at UW-Madison from his position as Visiting Researcher at Google Madison. Previously he was a post-doctoral associate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). His research …
CS professor Justin Hsu wins Distinguished Paper Award at POPL 2020
Assistant Professor Justin Hsu and his coauthors have been awarded a distinguished paper award at POPL 2020 (ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on the Principles of Programming Languages). Hsu’s coauthors are Steffen Smolka (Cornell University), Nate Foster …
Caleb LaCount, Computer Sciences & Dairy Science
Year in school (and/or when you expect to graduate): Junior, Graduating Spring 2021 Hometown: Appleton, WI (Kimberly High School) Why are you pursuing degrees in both of your areas? Why did you add the second …
Malinda Miller, Computer Sciences & Art
Year in school (and/or when you expect to graduate): Graduated Dec. 2019 Hometown: Owen, WI Why did you pursue degrees in both of your areas? Why did you add the second one (if you did)? …