As AI models are released into the wild, Sharon Li wants to ensure they’re safe. CS professor Sharon Li has been named MIT Technology Review’s Innovator of the Year! The MIT Technology Review story, which …
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Computer Sciences PhD Ankit Pensia awarded Goldstine Postdoctoral Fellowship
Ankit Pensia, recent Computer Sciences PhD graduate, has been awarded the prestigious Herman Goldstine Postdoctoral Fellowship at IBM Research. These fellowships support recent PhD graduates by giving them complete academic freedom to conduct postdoctoral research …
Welcome to Ethan Cecchetti, Assistant Professor focusing on language-based security
Ethan Cecchetti comes to Madison from a postdoctoral position at the University of Maryland. He has one word to describe his first visit to campus: “Cold.” It’s not his first time in a cold place, …
2023 Rosser Lecture feature’s Georgia Tech’s Dr. Zvi Galil on online MS programs and the future of higher education
The Rosser Lecture series is back! The 2023 lecture will feature Dr. Zvi Galil, Professor and former Dean of Computer Science at Georgia Institute of Technology, speaking about ”Georgia Tech’s online MOOC-based Master’s Program and …
ChatGPT, explained
Computer Sciences professors Jerry Zhu and Fred Sala explain ChatGPT in this short YouTube video created by the College of Letters & Science. Enjoy!
Studying the Past to Predict the Future: The History of Computer Architecture Is Here
Computer Sciences professor Matt Sinclair, Computer Sciences graduate student Rutwik Jain, and their colleagues have analyzed 50 years of computer architecture – and are looking ahead to 50 more – in a recent International Symposium …
CS Professor Sharon Li wins NSF CAREER award
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 …
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 …