College of Computing & Artificial Intelligence
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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: …
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 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 …
Modern academic research runs on computational power—and in today’s research labs, central processing units (CPUs) and graphics processing units (GPUs) are critical pieces in a scientist’s workbench. So with funding secured through the WARF investment, CHTC began executing a major hardware refresh this summer, adding 207 new servers representing over 40,000 “batch slots” of computing …
Kirthevasan (Kirthi) Kandasamy comes to UW–Madison from a postodoc at UC-Berkeley. He will research and teach about machine learning, which he says he happened on accidentally, and he’s never looked back! Kansdasamy works more specifically on using game theory to help competitors share data when they might not be inclined to do so but it …