College of Computing & Artificial Intelligence
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 put in towards mentoring and helping students in CS 577 [Introduction to Algorithms] over the last few years, making the …
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 interests are in both databases systems and computer architecture, and he says that “enabling faster and more efficient database systems …
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 (Cornell University), Tobias Kappé (University College London), Dexter Kozen (Cornell University), and Alexandra Silva (University College London). Hsu’s paper is …
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 one (if you did)? I chose to pursue both degrees because I couldn’t picture my future without either degree in …
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)? They were both areas that I enjoyed and I didn’t feel that I had enough knowledge about either of them …
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 the UW–Madison Computer Sciences department in the fall of 2020, after completing her postdoc at Stanford University. Forbes honorees are …
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 of his recently developed algorithms have been applied in discovering patterns in biological datasets and creating defenses against data poisoning …
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 International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) for their work on single-photon 3D imaging. The Marr Prize, given biennially to the …
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 artificial intelligence (AI) in the academic arena. This year the conference received 6743 submissions, of which 1428 were accepted. The …
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, and pitfalls in the AI landscape to inform future decisions, policies, and investments in the area. The roadmap was a …