College of Computing & Artificial Intelligence
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 …
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 donations than the last Day of the Badger in 2019. This was made possible by the generosity of our donors …
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 from a wide variety of departments. Three Minute Thesis is an international competition in which graduate students are given three …
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 practical data and providing frameworks for proving performance guarantees, including for learning in the presence of adversarial attacks or limited …
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 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) and Derek Paulsen are cofounders of GreenBay Technologies, which is connected to the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF) at UW–Madison …
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 and Engineering category. The Blavatnik Awards aim to support young scientists at a pivotal career juncture when money and visibility …
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 National Science Foundation, supports research that accelerates innovation, focusing on enabling new wireless architectures that meet the density, throughput and …