By Nicole Herzog Imagine a world where workers have the ability to avoid life-threatening situations: A vulnerable human aerospace manufacturer once had to stand beneath the wing of a colossal aircraft, and now a life-sized …
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CS Day of the Badger results – thank you to all participants!
The Computer Sciences Department finished the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s 2021 Day of the Badger fundraising effort on April 7 with 132 individual donations for a total of $29.5K – over three times more donors and …
CS Grad Students achieve success in Three Minute Thesis Competition
by Elea Levin Computer Science graduate students Daniel Rakita and Andrew Schoen earned finalist and semifinalist ranks, respectively, in UW-Madison’s 2021-21 Three Minute Thesis competition. Over 60 graduate students participate in the competition this year …
Assistant Professor Yingyu Liang presented with prestigious NSF Career Award
UW-Madison Computer Sciences Assistant Professor Yingyu Liang has been awarded a prestigious NSF Career Award. The award is for “better understanding, robustness, and efficiency of deep learning.” Liang will be developing new theoretical models of properties of …
Virtual CS Research Symposium, October 30
You can join the research symposium any time today – it runs online until 5pm. Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87066196141?pwd=MWpjQlNUWUxrZGVTUUlYN28zN0tiUT09 Schedule: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1lr5oN7YjpiRqXoXbGuouhyoMqSmOUpwkgYHNpCs7eTo/edit#gid=930339023
Computer Sciences Professor AnHai Doan’s GreenBay Technologies Acquired by Informatica
Computer Sciences Professor AnHai Doan’s startup GreenBay Technologies has recently been acquired by Informatica, an enterprise cloud data management company based in the Bay Area. UW-Madison CS PhD students Yash Govind (who has since graduated) …
Professor Akella selected as 2020 Finalist for Blavatnik National Award for Young Scientists
Computer Sciences Professor Aditya Akella has been chosen as a 2020 Finalist of the prestigious Blavatnik National Awards for Young Scientists. There were 305 nominations this year, and eleven were selected in the Physical Sciences …
Computer Sciences faculty members Banerjee and Gupta awarded MLWiNS research funding
The University of Wisconsin-Madison has been awarded research funding into the development of future wireless systems as part of the Machine Learning for Wireless Networking Systems program (MLWiNS). This program, run by Intel and the …
CS professors awarded Provost’s Career Awards
Computer Sciences professors Shuchi Chawla and Bilge Mutlu have been awarded 2020 UW-Madison Provost’s Mid Career and Early Career Awards. These awards recognize research and teaching excellence and provide funds to be used for research, …
Yujie (Maggie) Guo, Computer Sciences & Biology
Year in school: Junior – expect to graduate in Spring 2021 Hometown: Shanghai, China Why did you pursue degrees in both of your areas? Why did you add the second one (if you did)? I …