PhD candidate Nikos Zarifis, the 2024 recipient of the Invanisevic Award, came to UW-Madison because it is “one of the top schools in the country,” he says, and he specifically wanted “to be a part …
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Jelena & Ilias Diakonikolas: Faculty couples and how they balance personal & professional bliss
Mutual respect — and a deeply shared love of computer science research — are two of the things that connect Jelena and Ilias Diakonikolas. He is the Sheldon B. Lubar Professor of Computer Sciences, and …
Prof. Jelena Diakonikolas named 2024 AFOSR Young Investigator
“The results are going to be fundamental,” says Diakonikolas. The Air Force Office of Scientific Research agrees. Any given computational problem has a number of possible solutions, each with its own set of advantages, limitations, …
Study Abroad Opens Doors to Music Success in Norway for CS Alum
Study Abroad Opens Doors to Music Success in Norway
A “simple and powerful idea” earns Professor Tom W. Reps the 2023 CAV Award
Presented at the 35th International Conference on Computer Aided Verification, the honor recognizes significant contributions to the verification of concurrent programs through context-bounded analysis. Recently, the Computer Sciences department’s Professor Tom Reps was awarded the …
Training a dog and training a robot aren’t so different
For AI and robotics researcher Josiah Hanna and his lab, high throughput computing is a critical tool in reinforcement learning. Read the full story here!
UW-Madison CHTC helps facilitate computational skills training for American Museum of Natural History
The American Museum of Natural History ramps up education on research computing. After “falling in love with the system” during the 2023 OSG School, American Museum of Natural History Museum (AMNH) bioinformatics specialist Dean Bobo wondered if he could jump …
Computer Sciences celebrates December graduates
UW-Madison’s Computer Sciences department remains one of the fastest growing disciplines on campus, with 44% more majors than the next largest. This figure alone is worth celebrating, but during commencement weekend we had even more …
UW-Madison Computer Sciences Department Makes Impact at NeurIPS 2023
NeurIPS, the Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, is one of the most prestigious conferences in artificial intelligence (AI), held each year in December. This year, Computer Sciences department researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison …
CS professor Mohit Gupta interviewed in new Sony Research Award Program blog post
The Sony Research Award Program (Sony RAP) provides funding for cutting-edge academic research and helps build a collaborative relationship between faculty and Sony researchers. This research collaboration between Sony and the University of Wisconsin-Madison is …