Madison, WI – Trusted CI, the NSF Cybersecurity Center of Excellence, has been awarded a $12.5 million renewal grant by the National Science Foundation, which will allow the center to operate through 2024. Barton Miller, …
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Phil and Kit Blake Wisconsin Idea Scholarship benefits computer science students from rural areas
By Maeve Ryan Rural Wisconsin students who attend UW-Madison, who major in computer sciences now have a scholarship option created just for them. Following the Wisconsin Idea, which holds that the UW’s influence should reach …
Jerry Zhu selected for DARPA ISAT study group
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has named Jerry Zhu to the Information Science and Technology (ISAT) Study Group for a three-year term beginning this summer. The group brings 30 of the brightest scientists and engineers …
Mohit Gupta (CS) and Andreas Velten (BMI) finalists for 2019 AutoSens Award
Computer Sciences assistant professor Mohit Gupta and Biostatistics & Medical Informatics assistant professor Andreas Velten have been selected as finalists in the 2019 AutoSens Award Competition in the “Most Influential Research Category.” Their research is …
First Ivanisevic Award recipient Samuel Drews researches fairness properties of automated decision-making
Computer Sciences PhD student Samuel Drews is the first recipient of a new award for dissertators: the Ivanisevic Award. This award was created by Dr Igor Ivanisevic (CS MS ’98; PhD 2000) and Dr Albena …
Sharing control with robots may make manufacturing safer, more efficient
Hulking robots common to assembly line manufacturing tend to be loners. They often cut, bend and weld metal inside cages and behind barriers meant to safely separate them from human workers. “For a long time, …
Mary Vernon honored for fundamental contributions to analytic system design with the 2019 ACM SIGMETRICS Achievement Award
Madison, WI, July 1, 2019 – ACM SIGMETRICS announced the selection of Prof. Mary Vernon of University of Wisconsin–Madison as the recipient of the 2019 ACM SIGMETRICS Achievement Award in recognition of her fundamental contributions …
CS grad student Viswesh Periyasamy (now alum! MS ’19) presents GLBIO poster on degenerative eye disease
Viswesh Periyasamy presented a poster in May at the Great Lakes Bioinformatics Consortium 2019 Conference (GLBIO) on the topic of gene regulatory network inference. This is a method to recover the interactions and relationships between …
Paul Barford named Distinguished Alumnus by Boston University
CS professor Paul Barford was named Distinguished Alumnus by Boston University, where he earned his PhD, at their graduation ceremony this spring (2019). He also had the honor of giving the commencement speech, which can …
Graduate students in their first three years connect with mentors and build community at CRA-W Grad Cohort Workshop
Two UW-Madison Computer Sciences graduate students, Suchita Pati and Swati Anand, had the honor of attending the 2019 Computer Research Association-Women Grad Cohort Workshop. The goal of the program is to build and mentor communities …