College of Computing & Artificial Intelligence
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 to help early-career faculty build a firm foundation for a lifetime of leadership in integrating education and research. Li’s award …
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 & Information Sciences (CDIS) and Computer Sciences Department (CS) the at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Entitled “The Future Frontier of …
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 careers. The NSF intends the awards to help early-career faculty build a firm foundation for a lifetime of leadership in …
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 data from one modality, such as gene expression, to predict a missing modality, such as electrophysiology. This technique is called …
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 Policy Evaluation PI: Josiah Hanna, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Sciences Detecting AI-altered Images to Combat Claims Fraud PI: …
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 and the event here!
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 focuses on open-world machine learning. He is developing algorithms to enable open-world learning that can function safely and adaptively in …
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 graduates: https://cdis.wisc.edu/spring-2023-commencement-celebrating-7-graduates-from-the-school-of-computer-data-information-sciences/
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 country. Furthermore, the department’s peer-assessed reputational score rose to 4.3 (out of 5), the highest it has been in the …
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 postgraduate level. Each Scholar receives funding as they pursue their PhD, internship opportunities, and mentorship with an Apple researcher in …