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Andy Konwinski ’07 receives Wisconsin Alumni Association Luminary Award

“Andy is unique even among our accomplished alumni. Few have so deeply reshaped the tech landscape — let alone done it twice.” — Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau, director of UW Madison School of Computer, Data, & Information Sciences Read the full story here.

PhD student Naman Gupta named Morgridge Fellow

Gupta's research is committed to advancing the safety and well-being of marginalized populations who face gender-based violence (GBV) by amplifying their silenced voices.

Three Wisconsin CS professors receive inaugural Google ML and Systems Junior Faculty Awards

Jelena Diakonikolas, Sharon Li, and Shivaram Venkataraman are among the first recipients to receive new award from Google.

Morgridge Hall, July 2025: Final progress update

Explore Morgridge Hall's final construction update as Computer Sciences prepares to move into a brand new research and education facility.

Gupta joins search committee for director of new Wisconsin Entrepreneurship Hub

Announced July 2025, the newly-formed Wisconsin Entrepreneurship Hub will build on UW–Madison’s rich history of innovation and strengthen entrepreneurial pathways.

CS professor Miron Livny & HTCondor celebrate 40 years powered by community

The brainchild of Miron Livny, director of the Center for High-Throughput Computing, HTCondor uses a vast network of computing resources to power a wide range of research projects across the globe.

Jin-Yi Cai awarded WARF Named Professorship

Professor Jin-Yi Cai was named the Juris Hartmanis Professor of Computer Sciences in honor of his late PhD advisor, “a father of complexity theory.”

Translating Legacy Code for a Safer Future: DARPA Backs Effort to Convert C to Rust

A team of researchers from Madison, Berkeley, Edinburgh, and Urbana-Champaign has received a $5 million award from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) under its Translating All C to Rust (TRACTOR) program.

PhD student Seth Ockerman awarded prestigious NSF grad fellowship

By Karen Barrett-Wilt Computer Sciences PhD student Seth Ockerman has been awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship (GRFP), which is a highly competitive program that provides funding and support for graduate students in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) fields. Ockerman says, “My research focuses on designing systems for large-scale data analysis, …

Patrick McDaniel co-editor of new ACM journal on AI security and privacy

ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, is pleased to announce a new journal, ACM Transactions on AI Security and Privacy (TAISAP), with UW–Madison Computer Sciences professor Patrick McDaniel as an editor-in-chief. As AI technologies have become pervasive, research on keeping these systems secure presents a critical need in both industry and society. Similarly, research on how …