College of Computing & Artificial Intelligence
By Elea Levin A paper written by PhD student Samuel Drews and Computer Sciences Professors Aws Albarghouthi and Loris D’Antoni was recognized as a 2021 SIGPLAN Research Highlight. Of the paper entitled “Proving Data-Poisoning Robustness in Decision Trees,” D’Antoni says, “This work is the first of his kind, as it’s trying to provide formal proofs …
Computer Sciences Professor Jin-Yi Cai has been awarded the Fulkerson Prize for work in discrete mathematics. He received the award in recognition of his article “Complexity of Counting CSP with Complex Weights,” jointly with Xi Chen of Columbia University, which was published in the Journal of the ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) in 2017. The …
Professor Mohit Gupta and colleagues at the Wisconsin Computational Imaging and Vision Lab (WISIONLab) at UW–Madison have been awarded an additional year of funding by the Sony Research Award Program (SRAP) for their research project “Single Photon Imaging”. Dr. Makiko Kan, General Manager at Sony’s R&D Laboratory, said that Gupta and colleagues’ “outstanding performance in …
Computer Sciences Professor Somesh Jha has received a Distinguished Alumni Award from the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IIT Delhi) in recognition of his outstanding achievements in teaching and research. Jha joins a prestigious group of alumni from IIT Delhi who have made important contributions in science and technology, corporate governance, and public and social …
By Elea Levin There is no such thing as a typical week in Computer Sciences 202: Computer Science Principles, taught through the UW–Madison Summer Collegiate Experience (SCE) program. From speakers to labs to opportunities for students to share what personally interests them most, Information School Faculty Associate Dorothea Salo described an outline for the course …
Professor Jin-Yi Cai of the Department of Computer Sciences at the University of Wisconsin–Madison has been jointly awarded the prestigious Gödel Prize in theoretical computer science. The award is sponsored by the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science and the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Special Interest Group on Algorithms and Computation Theory (SIGACT). The …
Year in school: Sophomore Hometown: Ottawa Hills, Ohio What made you decide to double major in these two areas and how do they work together? I originally decided to major in Computer Science because I really enjoyed writing computer programs that can do in millionths of a second what would take humans hours or even …
Year in school: Sophomore Hometown: Wuhan, China What made you decide to double major in these two areas and how do they work together? I decided to double major because both fields interest me greatly, and they also go hand in hand with each other. Data science helps me apply my knowledge of computer science …
Incoming faculty member Ming Liu was awarded honorable mention for the 2021 ACM SIGCOMM Doctoral Dissertation Award for Outstanding Ph.D. Thesis in Computer Networking and Data Communication from the Association for Computing Machinery’s Special Interest Group on Data Communications. Liu was recognized for “identifying and enabling novel uses of programmable network devices in data centers, including …
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 robot takes their place in assembling the plane. The robot extends its mechanical arm, grasping tools in one hand while …