2,022 students now declared majors By Nicole Herzog In 2011, just 200 students were Computer Science majors. A decade later, the number of students enrolled in the discipline has grown more than ten times—a direct …
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Congratulations to CS undergrad Hilldale Research Fellowship recipients!
Seven Computer Sciences majors were awarded Hilldale Undergraduate/Faculty Research Fellowships at the recent Chancellor’s Undergraduate Awards Ceremony. Grants are awarded to undergraduates and their faculty/staff advisors for research collaboration. The CS students and faculty winners …
Jin-Yi Cai awarded prestigious Gödel Prize
Professor Jin-Yi Cai of the Department of Computer Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has been jointly awarded the prestigious Gödel Prize in theoretical computer science. The award is sponsored by the European Association for …
Incoming faculty member Ming Liu awarded SIGCOMM Doctoral Dissertation Award honorable mention
Incoming faculty member Ming Liu was awarded honorable mention for the 2021 ACM SIGCOMM Doctoral Dissertation Award for Outstanding Ph.D. Thesis in Computer Networking and Data Communication from the Association for Computing Machinery’s Special Interest Group …
Computer Sciences Capstone class provides real-world projects for UW-Madison undergrads
By Elea Levin While most students have to wait for an internship to get hands-on experience working with a company in their field, a group of undergraduates had the opportunity to gain this real world …
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.