College of Computing & Artificial Intelligence
Computer Sciences PhD student Samuel Drews is the first recipient of a new award for dissertators: the Ivanisevic Award. This award was created by Dr Igor Ivanisevic (CS MS ’98; PhD 2000) and Dr Albena Ivanisevic (PhD, Chemistry, 2000). As UW–Madison alumni from two different departments, they decided to split the award between the two, …
Hulking robots common to assembly line manufacturing tend to be loners. They often cut, bend and weld metal inside cages and behind barriers meant to safely separate them from human workers. “For a long time, the best factory robot has been one that you set up, and you don’t touch for two years. It does …
Madison, WI, July 1, 2019 – ACM SIGMETRICS announced the selection of Prof. Mary Vernon of University of Wisconsin–Madison as the recipient of the 2019 ACM SIGMETRICS Achievement Award in recognition of her fundamental contributions to analytic performance modeling techniques and to analytic design of a wide range of impactful computer and communication system architectures. …
Viswesh Periyasamy presented a poster in May at the Great Lakes Bioinformatics Consortium 2019 Conference (GLBIO) on the topic of gene regulatory network inference. This is a method to recover the interactions and relationships between genes. His research goal, in his own words, “is to better understand how gene mutations responsible for degenerative eye disease …
CS professor Paul Barford was named Distinguished Alumnus by Boston University, where he earned his PhD, at their graduation ceremony this spring (2019). He also had the honor of giving the commencement speech, which can be found here:
Two UW–Madison Computer Sciences graduate students, Suchita Pati and Swati Anand, had the honor of attending the 2019 Computer Research Association-Women Grad Cohort Workshop. The goal of the program is to build and mentor communities of women in the first three years of graduate study. At the workshop, current grad students are connected with senior …
Mark D. Hill Recognized for Seminal Contributions with Eckert-Mauchly Award Madison, WI, June 5, 2019 – ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, and IEEE Computer Society have announced that Mark D. Hill, a professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, is the recipient of the 2019 Eckert-Mauchly Award. Hill was cited for contributions to the design …
By Maeve Ryan Adithya ‘Adi’ Murali came to UW–Madison as a computer science major. While he knew he had an entrepreneurial spirit, he didn’t know how to channel it. Luckily, a new program at UW–Madison, gALPHA+CS, allowed him to do just that: “I did want to try entrepreneurship and get my feet wet; I just …
On April 29, the Department of Computer Sciences held its annual Computer Sciences Majors and Awards Lunch in the Symphony Room at the Gordon Dining and Events Center. Awards were presented in the following categories: Undergraduate Awards Programming Competitions Best Paper Awards External Graduate Fellowships External Grad Student Awards UW Awards Industry Research Awards UW …
By Maeve Ryan Roz Stengle is a junior at UW–Madison majoring in computer science and economics. She was born and raised in Princeton, New Jersey and decided to come to UW due in part to the university’s size: “My high school is really tiny, so it’s nice to be somewhere that operates like a whole …