Ilias Diakonikolas comes to the Department of Computer Sciences at UW-Madison from the University of Southern California and the University of Edinburgh. His research areas are algorithms and the foundations of machine learning, and some …
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Single Photon 3D Imaging Paper wins Marr Prize Honorable Mention at IEEE ICCV
By John Mak On the 30th of October, three researchers in the UW-Madison Department of Computer Sciences – Anant Gupta, Atul Ingle, and Mohit Gupta – won the Marr Prize – honorable mention at the …
UW-Madison Dept. of Computer Sciences professors Diakonikolas and Tzamos presented with outstanding paper award at NeurIPS 2019
Ilias Diakonikolas and Christos Tzamos, two UW-Madison Computer Sciences professors, have earned the outstanding paper award at NeurIPS 2019, the Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems. NeurIPS is one of the most prestigious conferences on …
Computing Community Consortium Releases AI Roadmap for Next 20 Years
By John Mak Earlier this year, the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) released their completed Artificial Intelligence Roadmap, A 20-Year Community Roadmap for AI Research in the US. The roadmap mainly focuses on identifying challenges, opportunities, …
UW-Madison wins at International Collegiate Programming Contest, goes to world finals for 19th year running
By John Mak On the ninth of November, the regional round of the International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC, formerly known as the ACM programming competition) was held on the Epic campus. Of 180 teams in …
Women technologists of the world come together for annual Grace Hopper Conference
Women technologists of the world, unite! Eighteen UW-Madison Computer Sciences Department students attended the 2019 Grace Hopper Celebration (GHC), the largest gathering of women technologists in the world, in early October in Orlando, FL. In …
UW-Madison announces new School of Computer, Data & Information Sciences
The University of Wisconsin–Madison has established a School of Computer, Data & Information Sciences (CDIS) in the College of Letters & Science to strengthen research and education on campus, prepare tech-savvy graduates to fill new …
SACM Annual CS Fall Picnic brings together students, faculty, staff
This fall, the Department of Computer Sciences continues its growth with a record-breaking number of incoming graduate students. With this large student body, it becomes increasingly important to build an active community that involves graduate …
CS Department welcomes Earlence Fernandes, assistant professor in computer security
Earlence Fernandes joins the UW-Madison Department of Computer Sciences from his position as a Research Associate at the University of Washington. Fernandes works on computer security for emerging technologies such as smartphones, smart homes, and …
CS Department welcomes Rahul Chatterjee, assistant professor in the Security Research Group
Rahul Chatterjee joins the UW-Madison Department of Computer Sciences from Cornell University, where he completed his PhD. He completed his MS here at UW-Madison and earned a Bachelor of Technology degree from the Indian Institute …