Computer Sciences faculty member Sharon Li has recently won National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Awards. Li joined the CS faculty in 2020 so is considered early in her career (pre-tenure). The NSF intends the awards …
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Large Language Models panelists discuss ChatGPT and education in a lively Bay Area event
Large language models (LLMs), including ChatGPT, and their effects and uses in education and industry, were the subject of a lively panel held recently in the Bay Area, hosted by the School of Computer, Data …
CS Professors Sinclair and Venkataraman earn 2023 NSF CAREER Awards
Two Computer Sciences faculty members, Matt Sinclair and Shivaram Venkataraman, have recently won National Science Foundation CAREER Awards. Sinclair and Venkataraman both joined the UW-Madison CS faculty in 2018 so are early (pre-tenure) in their …
CS PhD student Noah Cohen Kalafut’s research leads to more complete understanding of brain cell functions
Scientists at the Waisman Center have recently had a paper published in Nature Machine Intelligence on their creation of a machine learning algorithm called JAMIE (Joint Variational Autoencoders for Multimodal Imputation and Embedding). JAMIE uses …
Three CS professors awarded funding through UW research partnership with American Family Insurance
The UW–Madison Data Science Institute (DSI), powered by American Family Insurance, announced ten research projects selected for funding through a unique sponsored research partnership, including three Computer Sciences professors: Learning what is Relevant for Counterfactual …
Ground officially broken for new home of Computer Sciences
Ground was officially broken for the new home of the Computer Sciences department and other departments and centers affiliated with the the School of Computer, Data & Information Sciences (CDIS). Read more about the building …
PhD student Xuefeng Du awarded 2023-24 Jane Street Fellowship
We are thrilled to announce that CS PhD student Xuefeng Du has been named a Jane Street Fellow for the 2023-24 academic year. Xuefeng Du is advised by Professor Sharon Yixuan Li, and his research …
Celebrating seven School of Computer, Data & Information Sciences (CDIS) graduates
CDIS’s celebration of seven CDIS graduates include two CS students – or now alumni! Read all about CS/Linguistics major Alexander Francis Peseckis (BS ’23) and Mark Mansi, CS PhD ’23, as well as other CDIS …
UW-Madison Computer Sciences graduate program rises to 12th in US News rankings
The 2023-24 US News & World Report Best Graduate School rankings are out, and the UW-Madison Computer Sciences department has risen five places, from 17th to 12th, the largest rise among top departments in the …
CS’s Jason Mohoney receives Apple Scholars in Al/ML PhD Fellowship
CS PhD student Jason Mohoney is the recipient of a 2023 Apple Scholar in Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning PhD Fellowship. The fellowship recognizes the contributions of researchers in computer science and engineering at the graduate and …