Mohit Gupta has just received a Sony Research Faculty Innovation Award for his work on single-photon imaging. Single-photon sensors are an exciting new sensor technology that have the unique ability to capture individual photons of light with …
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National Science Foundation establishes a partnership to advance throughput computing
By Brian Mattmiller, Morgridge Institute for Research Recognizing the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s leadership role in research computing, the National Science Foundation announced this month that the Madison campus will be home to a five-year, $22.5 …
Computer Sciences Professor Mark Hill retires after 32 years at UW-Madison
It is with both sadness and happiness that we announce Mark D. Hill’s retirement from UW-Madison and the beginning of a new chapter as Professor Emeritus. We congratulate Mark on a fruitful and successful tenure …
Eight Computer Sciences undergrad honorees awarded scholarships
The Chancellor’s Undergraduate Awards Ceremony was held online this year and honors include eight Computer Sciences undergraduates. Congratulations to all! You can read the full article here. CS honorees are as follows: Hilldale Undergraduate/Faculty Research …
Yea-Seul Kim, assistant professor in HCI, visualization, and data science, joins UW-Madison Department of Computer Sciences
Yea-Seul Kim joins the CS Department from the University of Washington where she earned a PhD in information science. She had previously received an MS in human-centered design and engineering from the same university. Her …
Computer Sciences Professor AnHai Doan’s GreenBay Technologies Acquired by Informatica
Computer Sciences Professor AnHai Doan’s startup GreenBay Technologies has recently been acquired by Informatica, an enterprise cloud data management company based in the Bay Area. UW-Madison CS PhD students Yash Govind (who has since graduated) …
Institute for the Foundations of Data Science partnership earns NSF funding; directed by CS professor Stephen Wright at UW-Madison
University of Wisconsin–Madison data scientists are harnessing big data and laying the foundations for major advances in data-rich applications thanks to a five-year, $4.6 million grant from the National Science Foundation.
The team at UW–Madison is co-leading a cohort of institutions to study the theoretical underpinnings of the rapidly growing field of data science. The Institute for the Foundations of Data Science (IFDS) — with partners at the University of Washington, the University of California, Santa Cruz, and the University of Chicago — is being funded by a $12.5 million Phase II grant from NSF’s Transdisciplinary Research in Principles of Data Science (TRIPODS) program. $4.6 million is slated for UW–Madison.
UW-Madison Computer Sciences Department welcomes Sharon Li, assistant professor in deep learning and artificial intelligence
Sharon Li, one of Forbes 30-under-30- Science honorees, joins the CS Department from a post-doc at Stanford University. Li has been interested in math and physics since high school, and when she discovered machine learning, …
Mohit Gupta: Better low-light photography may come one photon at a time
Sensors that catch just the minimum amount of light could be better than typical digital cameras at capturing everyday memories in challenging environments.
Miron Livny awarded 2020 IEEE Award for Outstanding Technical Achievement and 2020 High Impact Paper Award
Computer Sciences Professor Miron Livny has been selected for two prestigious IEEE awards: the 2020 IEEE Technical Committee on Distributed Processing (TCDP) Award for Outstanding Technical Achievement and a 2020 IEEE TDCP ICDCS High Impact …