Swamit Tannu, new assistant professor specializing in computer architecture and quantum computing, joins UW-Madison Computer Sciences from Georgia Tech, where he completed his PhD. His research focuses on “architecture and compilation techniques to mitigate hardware …
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Assistant Professor Frederic Sala joins UW-Madison Computer Sciences to teach Machine Learning and Data Analytics
Frederic Sala joins the UW-Madison Computer Sciences Department from Stanford University where he was a postdoctoral scholar. He completed his PhD in electrical engineering at University of California-Los Angeles, where he studied machine learning, information …
Assistant Professor Yuhang Zhao joins UW-Madison Computer Sciences Department to teach Human-Computer Interaction
Yuhang Zhao joins the UW-Madison Computer Sciences Department from Cornell University, where she completed her PhD in Information Science. Zhao studies Human-Computer Interaction, and more specifically is interested in understanding “the diverse abilities that people …
Andrea Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau, and Suman Banerjee named 2020 Association for Computing Machinery Fellows
UW-Madison Computer Sciences professors Andrea Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau, and Suman Banerjee join ten other UW-Madison CS faculty as 2020 Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Fellows: Andrea Arpaci-Dusseau: For contributions to storage and computer systems Remzi …
CS Graduate Student Jordan Henkel awarded 2021 Microsoft Research Fellowship
Congratulations to Jordan Henkel for being chosen a 2021 Microsoft Research Fellow! Students are nominated by their university for this prestigious award, and only ten fellowships were awarded this year. Students receive two years of …
Meet Kayla Gross, CS Inclusion Program Manager
Kayla Gross has just begun her appointment as the Inclusion Program Manager for the Department of Computer Sciences at UW-Madison. She is responsible for improving the enrollment, retention, and experiences of female-identified students in the …
The trials and tribulations of academic publishing – and fuzz testing
By Karen Barrett-Wilt The story of fuzz testing begins on “a dark and stormy night. Really,” says UW-Madison Computer Sciences professor Barton Miller, who developed the methodology. Fuzz testing — now an accepted and widely …
exploreCSR grant helps UW-Madison Computer Sciences provide research opportunities to underrepresented students
Computer Sciences professors Jelena Diakonikolas and Shivaram Venkataraman have been awarded an exploreCSR grant from Google to encourage underrepresented students at the undergraduate level to pursue CS research and apply to graduate programs. Diakonikolas and …
Professor Stephen Wright Announced Winner of the Test of Time Award at 2020 NeurIPS Conference
By Sunčana Pavlic UW-Madison Computer Sciences professor Stephen Wright and three colleagues formerly from the department were announced winners of the Test of Time Award at the 2020 Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS). …
Stephen Wright wins 2020 INFORMS Optimization Society Khachiyan Prize
Computer Sciences Professor Stephen Wright has won the INFORMS Optimization Society Khachiyan Prize “For his vast contributions to continuous optimization, spanning theory, algorithms and software, and the impact of his work on control, signal processing, …