By Rachel Robey Josiah Hanna’s soccer-playing robots train with reinforcement learning, a branch of artificial intelligence that mimics one of the ways humans learn. “The world is a fundamentally uncertain place,” says Josiah Hanna, Assistant …
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CS Affiliate Professor & Data Science Institute Director Kyle Cranmer awarded inaugural prize for AI in science
Kyle Cranmer, Computer Sciences Affiliate Professor, Professor of Physics, and Director of the Data Science Institute at UW–Madison, has been honored with the inaugural Pritzker Prize in AI for Science for his role in establishing a …
Making connections: Alka Lakadia’s journey from international student to tech entrepreneur
By Karen Barrett-Wilt When Alka Lakadia x’27 arrived at UW–Madison from India as a freshman, she knew she wanted to study computer science, but she didn’t anticipate discovering her passion for entrepreneurship or that she …
Recognizing a Legacy of Leadership: Somesh Jha Earns 2025 SIGSAC Excellence in Service Award
By Karen Barrett-Wilt We are delighted to announce that Somesh Jha, Sheldon B. Lubar Professor of Computer Sciences at University of Wisconsin–Madison, has been selected to receive the 2025 ACM Special Interest Group on Security, …
Computer Sciences thrives in new $267M state-of-the-art research facility
Filled with light and flexible lab spaces, Morgridge Hall is a “fresh start” that lets researchers “chase their dreams.”
Somesh Jha Receives ACM CCS Test-of-Time Award
Somesh Jha, Sheldon B. Lubar Chair and Professor in the University of Wisconsin–Madison Department of Computer Sciences, has been recognized with the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS) 2025 Test-of-Time Award for his influential paper “Model Inversion Attacks that Exploit Confidence Information and Basic Countermeasures.”
UW–Madison Team Honored with Best Student Paper Award at Premier Machine Learning Conference
By Karen Barrett-Wilt UW–Madison Computer Sciences PhD student Lisheng Ren, his advisor Sheldon B. Lubar Professor Ilias Diakonikolas, and UC-San Diego Professor Daniel Kane have received the Mark Fulk Best Student Paper Award at the …
Alum Faisal Mushtaq ’88 and the importance of creating consensus and listening – and fast cars
By Karen Barrett-Wilt Faisal Mushtaq ’88 came to UW-Madison to study computer engineering and computer science with the goal of becoming an embedded systems engineer. He is currently senior advisor of Data/AI Center of Excellence …
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 …
UW-Madison research is $1.7B operation ready to grow, new leader says
UWMadison’s new Vice Chancellor for Research Dorota Grejner-Brzezińska recently spoke with The Capital Times about growing research efforts, which recently topped $1.7 billion in annual spending. Two areas stand out: AI and cyber security.