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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 error to enable quantum computers that can solve practical problems,” such as designing better drugs, more efficient batteries, and inexpensive …

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 theory, and data science and their intersection. His goal through his research here at UW is to help data-driven systems …

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 have, and to design and build intelligent interactive systems to enhance human abilities and promote equity.” At UW–Madison she plans …

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 Arpaci-Dusseau: For contributions to storage and computer systems Suman Banerjee: For contributions to design, implementation, and tools of wireless systems …

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 tuition and fees at their educational institution, a stipend, and an invitation to a two-day PhD summit. Henkel works with …

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 department. The effort is funded by a multi-year grant from the Center for Inclusive Computing. Gross’s commitment to advancing and …

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 used method of finding bugs in software that will make the software crash — had a rocky road to acceptance …

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 Venkataraman plan to use the grant to host two workshops: the first during spring semester 2021, and the second at …

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). Wright, alongside former UW–Madison Computer Sciences professors Ben Recht and Chris Ré and former UW–Madison Ph.D. student Feng Niu, received …

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, and machine learning.” Purpose of the Award The Khachiyan Prize of the INFORMS Optimization Society was established in 2010 and …