College of Computing & Artificial Intelligence
Researchers at the Center for High Throughput Computing and the Morgridge Institute will collaborate on “FabAID,” a new AI-driven network connecting the nation's data, cyberinfrastructure, and computing resources.
From healthcare research to building campus community, this year’s crop of CDIS graduates is as impressive and ambitious as ever. Here’s to the class of 2026.
After nearly four decades of untangling some of the most complex mathematical puzzles in optimization, Professor Michael Ferris is stepping back — or at least stepping sideways. The John P. Morgridge Chair and Jacques-Louis Lions Professor of Computer Sciences at the University of Wisconsin–Madison will officially retire on June 30, closing a chapter that began when a young Cambridge mathematician arrived in Madison for what was supposed to be just one year.
On May 8, 2026, graduating PhD students walked across the floor in the Hello, World classroom in Morgridge Hall and received their hoods as the culmination of their graduate careers. Now they are alumni and headed to careers in fields that vary from industry to academia.
University of Wisconsin–Madison Computer Sciences professor Ilias Diakonikolas has received the 2026 Gödel Prize, one of the highest honors in theoretical computer science, for transformational work in robust high-dimensional learning – the study of how algorithms can learn reliably from large, complex datasets even when some of the data has been corrupted.
Steve Wright, Professor of Computer Sciences and former chair of Computer Sciences, has received two recent honors: He will give a plenary lecture at the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) in Philadelphia in July 2026, and he has been named a Vilas Research Professor by UW–Madison.
After more than two decades in the classroom, Teaching Professor Debra Deppeler is retiring from the Department of Computer Sciences, leaving behind a legacy measured not just in years but in students. Deb earned an MS at UW-Madison in Computer Sciences in 2000 and joined the department in 2001. In her 25 years with the department, Deb has taught a staggering 15,000 undergraduates.
$100 million in philanthropic support and a significant campus investment, including 50 new faculty positions, will support research, education and innovation
Congratulations, graduates! The Computer Sciences Department will be holding in-person graduation ceremonies . . .