College of Computing & Artificial Intelligence
The honor recognizes a Gödel Prize-winning paper that helped establish algorithmic high-dimensional robust statistics, a field Diakonikolas continues to shape.
New Assistant Professor Tianyu Li joins the department this fall from MIT, where he completed his PhD in EECS working with Samuel Madden. Before that, he earned his bachelor's and master's degrees in computer science at Carnegie Mellon University under Andy Pavlo. A database systems researcher, Li studies how to manage data efficiently and reliably in today's changing technical landscape, where cloud computing is reshaping how data is stored and processed, and AI is transforming how it is used.
Assistant Professor Lucy Li joins the Department of Computer Sciences, with an affiliate appointment to the Information School, after a postdoc at the University of Washington’s Allen School in Seattle. Her path to natural language processing began with a book about the language of food and a Tumblr project analyzing the final messages people send at the end of friendships and relationships.
New Assistant Professor Sara McAllister joins the department after six years in Pittsburgh, where she earned her PhD in computer science at Carnegie Mellon University, followed by a year as a visiting researcher at Google in California. A systems researcher who found her way into the field almost by accident after a Facebook internship left her fascinated by how the company planned for worst-case major outages.
Aws Albarghouthi gave a keynote address at the 2026 PLDI Conference, an honor that includes Turing Award winners.
This July, 15 Madison-area middle schoolers traded their summer routines for coding, robotics, and cryptography at the new UW–Madison Sciences Explorations Summer Camp. Hosted at Morgridge Hall, the camp gave students entering 5th through 8th grade, with or without coding experience, a hands-on introduction to computer science.
When Angela Thorp talks about her 19 years as graduate program manager in the Department of Computer Sciences, she doesn't lead with policy or paperwork. She leads with people. "I'm really a strong advocate for each and every student," she says.
Researchers at the Center for High Throughput Computing and the Morgridge Institute will collaborate on “FabAID,” a new AI-driven network connecting the nation's data, cyberinfrastructure, and computing resources.