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Associate Professor Yong Jae Lee joins UW-Madison Computer Sciences Department to focus on Computer Vision

Yong Jae Lee comes to UW–Madison from an artificial intelligence visiting faculty position at Cruise and before that from faculty positions at University of California-Davis. Lee studies Computer Vision – “enabling machines to ‘see’ the visual world.” Lee believes it is important to share his work widely, in keeping with the Wisconsin Idea: “It’s very …

Assistant Professor Ming Liu joins UW-Madison Computer Sciences Department in Networking and Systems

Ming Liu joins the UW–Madison Computer Sciences Department as an assistant professor after earning his PhD in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Washington. His research focuses on networking and systems and using new network hardware trends to develop new, cost effective software systems.  Hometown: Helong, China Educational/professional background: I earned my PhD …

Loris D’Antoni selected as 2021 Certain-Sandefur Letters & Science Distinguished Faculty awardee

Associate Professor of Computer Sciences Loris D’Antoni has been awarded the 2021 Phillip R. Certain-Gary D. Sandefur Letters & Science Distinguished Faculty Award. This award honors a faculty member in the College of Letters and Sciences and recognizes their outstanding teaching.  Honorees for the award are nominated by the academic Associate Deans in the college …

2021 SIGPLAN Research Highlight awarded to Computer Sciences faculty and alumnus

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 …

Jin-Yi Cai awarded Fulkerson Prize for work in discrete mathematics

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 WISIONLab colleagues awarded additional Sony funding for Single Photon Imaging project

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 …

CS Professor Somesh Jha named distinguished alumnus from IIT Delhi

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 …

Computer Sciences and the iSchool work together to level the playing field for incoming students

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 …

Jin-Yi Cai awarded prestigious Gödel Prize

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 …

Alex Peseckis, Computer Sciences & Linguistics

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 …