College of Computing & Artificial Intelligence
Computer Sciences Professor Aditya Akella has been chosen as a 2020 Finalist of the prestigious Blavatnik National Awards for Young Scientists. There were 305 nominations this year, and eleven were selected in the Physical Sciences and Engineering category. The Blavatnik Awards aim to support young scientists at a pivotal career juncture when money and visibility …
The University of Wisconsin–Madison has been awarded research funding into the development of future wireless systems as part of the Machine Learning for Wireless Networking Systems program (MLWiNS). This program, run by Intel and the National Science Foundation, supports research that accelerates innovation, focusing on enabling new wireless architectures that meet the density, throughput and …
Computer Sciences professors Loris D’Antoni and Aws Albarghouthi co-proposed a faculty cluster hire that was accepted and is available to hire three faculty over the next two years. Cluster hires are awarded by the Office of the Provost and are meant to foster collaborative research, education and outreach by creating new interdisciplinary areas of …
Computer Sciences professors Shuchi Chawla and Bilge Mutlu have been awarded 2020 UW–Madison Provost’s Mid Career and Early Career Awards. These awards recognize research and teaching excellence and provide funds to be used for research, publication, project assistantships, and other expenses related to scholarly activity. Chawla has been a faculty member in the Computer Sciences …
Credit to Yu Wen Mak and Charlie Chermak Many people dream of running their own company and being their own boss. For Jack Ryan, a UW–Madison alumnus from Eden Prairie, MN, that dream has already come true. Ryan is the Founder and CEO of Last Lock, a startup that aims to disrupt the access control …
Daphne Yao and Na Meng of Virginia Tech and Barton Miller of the University of Wisconsin–Madison have been awarded $1.2 million over four years by the National Science Foundation Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace Program for their project entitled “Deployment-quality and Accessible Solutions for Cryptography Code Development.” The goal of the project is to help developers …
Computer Sciences Professor Dieter van Melkebeek will be presented with the prestigious 2020 ACM-SIGACT Distinguished Service Award for his leadership in creating the Computational Complexity Foundation (CCF) and transitioning the annual Computational Complexity Conference to be run under the auspices of the CCF. This new model benefits the research community in multiple ways, including open-access …
We are pleased to announce the winners of the eleventh annual UW Computer Sciences Department Nest Software Contest – an annual software contest for UW–Madison students to innovate and develop new software technologies. This program was started by Prof. Patel, who continues to oversee this program. Over the last two years, as the contest grew …
Year in school: Junior – expect to graduate in Spring 2021 Hometown: Shanghai, China Why did you pursue degrees in both of your areas? Why did you add the second one (if you did)? I have two majors because I want to study bioinformatics in the future, and I think these two fields would help …
Thirteen faculty members have been chosen to receive this year’s Distinguished Teaching Awards, an honor that annually recognizes some of UW–Madison’s finest educators. The following testimonials were given, and photographs made, before virtual teaching was instituted in response to COVID-19 — but whatever form instruction might take, this group ranks among the university’s best. While the …