College of Computing & Artificial Intelligence
As AI models are released into the wild, Sharon Li wants to ensure they’re safe. CS professor Sharon Li has been named MIT Technology Review’s Innovator of the Year! The MIT Technology Review story, which is a great read, describes Li’s research and why she was chosen Innovator of the Year: Her approach embraces uncertainty …
Ankit Pensia, recent Computer Sciences PhD graduate, has been awarded the prestigious Herman Goldstine Postdoctoral Fellowship at IBM Research. These fellowships support recent PhD graduates by giving them complete academic freedom to conduct postdoctoral research on problems of their choice in one of the IBM Research laboratories. Pensia says “I am using this opportunity to …
Ethan Cecchetti comes to Madison from a postdoctoral position at the University of Maryland. He has one word to describe his first visit to campus: “Cold.” It’s not his first time in a cold place, though, and he feels like he made the right choice in coming here. He says he was attracted to UW–Madison …
Computer Sciences professors Jerry Zhu and Fred Sala explain ChatGPT in this short YouTube video created by the College of Letters & Science. Enjoy!
Computer Sciences professor Matt Sinclair, Computer Sciences graduate student Rutwik Jain, and their colleagues have analyzed 50 years of computer architecture – and are looking ahead to 50 more – in a recent International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA) paper analysis. They call this work a “data-driven retrospective” and have drawn their data from the …
Two Computer Sciences faculty members, Matt Sinclair and Shivaram Venkataraman, have recently won National Science Foundation CAREER Awards. Sinclair and Venkataraman both joined the UW–Madison CS faculty in 2018 so are early (pre-tenure) in their careers. The NSF intends the awards to help early-career faculty build a firm foundation for a lifetime of leadership in …
Scientists at the Waisman Center have recently had a paper published in Nature Machine Intelligence on their creation of a machine learning algorithm called JAMIE (Joint Variational Autoencoders for Multimodal Imputation and Embedding). JAMIE uses data from one modality, such as gene expression, to predict a missing modality, such as electrophysiology. This technique is called …
The UW–Madison Data Science Institute (DSI), powered by American Family Insurance, announced ten research projects selected for funding through a unique sponsored research partnership, including three Computer Sciences professors: Learning what is Relevant for Counterfactual Policy Evaluation PI: Josiah Hanna, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Sciences Detecting AI-altered Images to Combat Claims Fraud PI: …
We are thrilled to announce that CS PhD student Xuefeng Du has been named a Jane Street Fellow for the 2023-24 academic year. Xuefeng Du is advised by Professor Sharon Yixuan Li, and his research focuses on open-world machine learning. He is developing algorithms to enable open-world learning that can function safely and adaptively in …
CDIS’s celebration of seven CDIS graduates include two CS students – or now alumni! Read all about CS/Linguistics major Alexander Francis Peseckis (BS ’23) and Mark Mansi, CS PhD ’23, as well as other CDIS graduates: https://cdis.wisc.edu/spring-2023-commencement-celebrating-7-graduates-from-the-school-of-computer-data-information-sciences/