Professor Shuchi Chawla of the Computer Sciences Department has won the 2020 Chancellor’s Teaching Innovation Award, one of this year’s Distinguished Teaching Awards. “This award recognizes the hard work numerous peer mentors and TAs have …
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CS Department welcomes Xiangyao Yu, Assistant Professor in Database Systems and Computer Architecture
Xiangyao Yu comes to the Department of Computer Sciences at UW-Madison from his position as Visiting Researcher at Google Madison. Previously he was a post-doctoral associate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). His research …
CS professor Justin Hsu wins Distinguished Paper Award at POPL 2020
Assistant Professor Justin Hsu and his coauthors have been awarded a distinguished paper award at POPL 2020 (ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on the Principles of Programming Languages). Hsu’s coauthors are Steffen Smolka (Cornell University), Nate Foster …
Caleb LaCount, Computer Sciences & Dairy Science
Year in school (and/or when you expect to graduate): Junior, Graduating Spring 2021 Hometown: Appleton, WI (Kimberly High School) Why are you pursuing degrees in both of your areas? Why did you add the second …
Malinda Miller, Computer Sciences & Art
Year in school (and/or when you expect to graduate): Graduated Dec. 2019 Hometown: Owen, WI Why did you pursue degrees in both of your areas? Why did you add the second one (if you did)? …
Incoming Assistant Professor Sharon Li Named One of Forbes 30 under 30
Sharon Li has been named to Forbes 30 under 30-Science for her work in deep learning, specifically applied to image recognition problems. (Visit Sharon’s complete Forbes profile.) She is excited about the prospect of joining …
CS Department welcomes Ilias Diakonikolas, Assistant Professor in Algorithms and Machine Learning
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 …
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, …