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Center for High Throughput Computing (CHTC) Facilitation Innovations

After adding Research Computing Facilitators in 2013-2014, CHTC has expanded its reach to support researchers in all disciplines interested in using large-scale computing to support their research through the shared computing capacity offered by the CHTC. “What’s unique at the CHTC is having a dedicated role – that we’re not just ‘user support’ responding to …

CS alum Archit Gupta (MS ’08) creates tax and financial gamechanger in India

Gupta discusses his time in the UW–Madison CS MS program (“UW–Madison has a great computer sciences program and fantastic faculty”) and what he thinks it takes a successful entrepreneur: Archit Gupta creates tax and financial tech gamechanger in India

Fall 2022 Commencement

Congratulations, graduates! Click here for CS graduation information! Questions? Click on the link above for advisor email addresses.

Jin-Yi Cai selected 2023 American Mathematical Society Fellow

Jin-Yi Cai, a professor in Computer Sciences Department, was selected as a 2023 Fellow of the American Mathematical Society (AMS) for “contributions to computational complexity theory, especially in the areas of complexity dichotomy.” AMS Fellows are chosen annually in recognition of their outstanding contributions to the creation, exposition, advancement, communication, and utilization of mathematics.  “I am very honored …

L&S Dean’s Message

Message from College of Letters & Science Dean Eric Wilcots: Fall semester is well underway, and there is much to celebrate this year! UW–Madison’s freshman class is, once again, the largest in history, and it is also the most diverse. Here in L&S, we have a student body full of talent and we are providing …

UW-Madison cultivates new cyber academic cooperation, partnerships with government

Students in UW–Madison’s Computer Sciences Department are accustomed to firsts: the first PhD in computer science granted in the United States, or the nation’s first master’s program in data engineering.  Recently students in a UW–Madison software security course took part in another first: a cyber tabletop exercise facilitated by the US Department of Homeland Security’s …

Center for High Throughput Computing Unsung Hero of HPCwire 2022 Readers’ Choice Award

As with many awards, there are a lot of unsung heroes and that includes the Center for High Throughput Computing (CHTC) and its contributions to IceCube. “We have used CHTC and the Open Science Pool (OSPool) for over a decade to perform all large-scale data analysis tasks and generate Monte Carlo simulations of the instrument’s …

Computer Sciences professors honored at Letters & Science Investiture Ceremony

Three Computer Sciences professors were recently honored at the first College of Letters & Science (L&S) Investiture Ceremony for professors with new named chairs and professorships: Andrea Arpaci-Dusseau: Catherine A Erickson Professorship in the School of Computer, Data & Information Sciences Patrick McDaniel: Tsun-Ming Shih Chair in the College of Letters & Science Karu Sankaralingam: …

Computer Sciences welcomes new teaching faculty Gurmail Singh and Scott Swanson

The Department of Computer Sciences welcomes two new teaching faculty: Gurmail Singh and Scott Swanson. Read about them below! Gurmail Singh Hometown: Regina, Canada Educational/professional background: Ph.D. University of Regina; Postdoc. Department of Computer Science and Department of Software Systems at University of Regina Could you please describe your area of focus? I work on …

Six Computer Sciences MS/PhD students recognized as LEAP fellows

Six Computer Sciences MS/PhD students were selected as LEAP Fellows. The LEAP Alliance is focused on diversifying future leadership in the computing professoriate as a way to increase diversity across the field of computing. Congratulations to the new UW–Madison LEAP Fellows! Eddie Barton Quinn Burke Eric Evans Jeremy McMahan David Parra Ryan Sheatsley LEAP Alliance …