Sharon Li, one of Forbes 30-under-30- Science honorees, joins the CS Department from a post-doc at Stanford University. Li has been interested in math and physics since high school, and when she discovered machine learning, …
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Mohit Gupta: Better low-light photography may come one photon at a time
Sensors that catch just the minimum amount of light could be better than typical digital cameras at capturing everyday memories in challenging environments.
Miron Livny awarded 2020 IEEE Award for Outstanding Technical Achievement and 2020 High Impact Paper Award
Computer Sciences Professor Miron Livny has been selected for two prestigious IEEE awards: the 2020 IEEE Technical Committee on Distributed Processing (TCDP) Award for Outstanding Technical Achievement and a 2020 IEEE TDCP ICDCS High Impact …
Professor Akella selected as 2020 Finalist for Blavatnik National Award for Young Scientists
Computer Sciences Professor Aditya Akella has been chosen as a 2020 Finalist of the prestigious Blavatnik National Awards for Young Scientists. There were 305 nominations this year, and eleven were selected in the Physical Sciences …
Computer Sciences faculty members Banerjee and Gupta awarded MLWiNS research funding
The University of Wisconsin-Madison has been awarded research funding into the development of future wireless systems as part of the Machine Learning for Wireless Networking Systems program (MLWiNS). This program, run by Intel and the …
Computer Sciences awarded interdisciplinary faculty cluster hire
Computer Sciences professors Loris D’Antoni and Aws Albarghouthi co-proposed a faculty cluster hire that was accepted and is available to hire three faculty over the next two years. Cluster hires are awarded by the …
CS professors awarded Provost’s Career Awards
Computer Sciences professors Shuchi Chawla and Bilge Mutlu have been awarded 2020 UW-Madison Provost’s Mid Career and Early Career Awards. These awards recognize research and teaching excellence and provide funds to be used for research, …
UW alum’s Last Lock named Top 12 in Governor’s Business Plan Competition, receives $100k investment
Credit to Yu Wen Mak and Charlie Chermak Many people dream of running their own company and being their own boss. For Jack Ryan, a UW-Madison alumnus from Eden Prairie, MN, that dream has already …
Virginia Tech and UW-Madison awarded NSF funding to help developers write more secure code
Daphne Yao and Na Meng of Virginia Tech and Barton Miller of the University of Wisconsin-Madison have been awarded $1.2 million over four years by the National Science Foundation Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace Program for …
Dieter van Melkebeek presented with 2020 ACM-SIGACT Distinguished Service Award
Computer Sciences Professor Dieter van Melkebeek will be presented with the prestigious 2020 ACM-SIGACT Distinguished Service Award for his leadership in creating the Computational Complexity Foundation (CCF) and transitioning the annual Computational Complexity Conference to …