College of Computing & Artificial Intelligence
After David Salazar x’24 was gifted video game consoles like the Nintendo64, Gameboy, and PlayStation, he became deeply curious about the mechanics behind video games like Super Mario, Pokémon, and Spyro. Some online searches lead Salazar to the world of programming. “While my initial start to computer science centered around video game development, the world …
Tej Chajed joins the UW–Madison Computer Sciences department from a postdoctoral position at VMware Research. His research focus is systems verification, and he is “working on tools to make it easier to prove that a distributed system eventually makes progress and processes requests.” He was attracted to UW–Madison because of the people in the department …
Heavy lifting is a leading cause of workplace injuries, which, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, can include nerve pain, strains, and spine injuries. A new group housed in the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery (WID) at the University of Wisconsin–Madison is working to address challenges like this by researching how to better integrate robots …
Rahul Chatterjee and his team have created a clinic to help victims of domestic abuse whose attackers may be using technology to stalk them. Read the full story here: https://lsmagazine.wisc.edu/issues/spring-2023/explorediscover/i-spy/
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 is a great read, describes Li’s research and why she was chosen Innovator of the Year: Her approach embraces uncertainty …
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 on problems of their choice in one of the IBM Research laboratories. Pensia says “I am using this opportunity to …
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, though, and he feels like he made the right choice in coming here. He says he was attracted to UW–Madison …
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 the future of higher education.” Dr. Galil will discuss the success of the online master’s in computer science at Georgia …
Computer Sciences professors Jerry Zhu and Fred Sala explain ChatGPT in this short YouTube video created by the College of Letters & Science. Enjoy!
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 on Computer Architecture (ISCA) paper analysis. They call this work a “data-driven retrospective” and have drawn their data from the …