One of Rajput’s projects focused on building AI-powered recommendation systems – like what Netflix, YouTube, or other media sites use – that rely on transformer networks. Transformer networks tell the recommendation system what part of …
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Open Science Grid User School welcomes students from around the globe
Five students from Makerere University in Uganda and the University Of Sciences, Techniques, and Technologies of Bamako in Mali, Africa, participated as a part of The U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) …
Computer Sciences welcomes Assistant Professor Kirthevasan Kandasamy, focusing on machine learning
Kirthevasan (Kirthi) Kandasamy comes to UW-Madison from a postodoc at UC-Berkeley. He will research and teach about machine learning, which he says he happened on accidentally, and he’s never looked back! Kansdasamy works more specifically …
Professor Patrick McDaniel joins UW-Madison Computer Sciences Department to focus on cybersecurity and systems
Patrick McDaniel comes to UW-Madison after 18 years as a professor at Pennsylvania State University. He earned his PhD at University of Michigan and worked in startups after that. McDaniel first visited Madison 20 years …
Grandparents University featured social robotics and learning Scratch from the CS Dept
What do you get when you combine the wonderment of childhood with the experience of a lifetime? Magic, and that’s what Grandparents University is all about. For the first time since the pandemic began, grandparents …
UW-Madison wins silver at ICPC North America Championship
The UW-Madison International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) team continued its streak with its 21st advancement to the world finals. At the North America Championship, the top 50 teams from the US and Canada vied for slots …
Cybersecurity UW Club places in top 2% at national cybersecurity competition
CS students Paul Chung and Nic Draves (founder) were part of the Cybersecurity UW team that placed 49th out of over 3,000 teams at the Spring 2022 Cyber Skyline NCL Team Game – that’s in …
Colorstack Gives UW-Madison CS Students of Color a Place To Be Their Authentic Selves
Most undergraduate students know that connecting with other students in your major is important for getting help on big assignments, swapping career advice, and even celebrating after an exam. These benefits are part of why …
Somesh Jha Awarded Kellett Mid-Career Award
Professor Somesh Jha was honored with the UW-Madison Kellett Mid-Career Award for 2022-23. The award recognizes and supports mid-career faculty who are seven to 20 years past their promotion to a tenured position, providing them …
High-Throughput Computing as an Enabler of Black Hole Science
On June 25, 2021, Arizona astrophysicist Feryal Ozel posted an item on Twitter that must have fired up scientific imaginations. She noted that the Open Science Pool (OSPool) just set a single-day record of capacity delivered — …