A recent CRA blog post written by Professor Somesh Jha and colleagues covers a panel discussion on GenAI opportunities and risks at the 2024 CRA Conference at Snowbird.
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Professor Bart Miller, the SC Conference, and some of his favorite people: his grad students
An affable, earnest guy, Dr. Barton Miller, the Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor in the Computer Sciences Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW), has made an oversized impact on the SC Conference.
Meet new teaching faculty member Hina Mahmood
She hopes students will come away from her classes with “a robust problem-solving mindset” and with “both the confidence and capability to approach complex problems creatively and tackle them with a lifelong enthusiasm for learning.”
Meet new teaching faculty member Cole Nelson
He first got into computer science through MIT’s Scratch coding community and now wants “to teach students not only about building web applications and user interfaces but doing so in a secure and usable manner.”
Meet new teaching faculty member Kaiser Pister
He focuses on machine learning and paradigms of language, and wants his students to gain “critical thinking abilities while reading code and capability in designing new systems.”
For Eric Pauley PhDx’25, Outstanding Graduate Student Research Award is just the beginning
“It’s a manifestation of the opportunities that have been available to me with Wisconsin and CDIS,” says Pauley. “Since moving here, I’ve just been inspired.”
CS Professor Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau will lead School of Computer Data & Information Sciences as Director Tom Erickson steps down
Erickson steps down, Arpaci-Dusseau to lead School of Computer, Data & Information Sciences
Meet new faculty member Tengyang Xie, artificial intelligence researcher
Tengyang Xie comes to UW-Madison from a postdoctoral position at Microsoft Research, New England and New York City Lab. His research goal is “to unlock seemingly impossible capabilities through reinforcement learning.” Surprised by the amount …
Meet new faculty member Sandeep Silwal, who works at the intersection of theoretical computer science and machine learning
Sandeep Silwal joins the Computer Sciences department after completing his PhD at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He works on algorithm design and first became interested in college when he “was hooked by how …
Meet new faculty member Ali Abedi, who will focus on Systems and Networking
“A pervasive theme that threads through all of my research initiatives centers on harnessing ‘signals of opportunity.’”