College of Computing & Artificial Intelligence
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 …
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, publication, project assistantships, and other expenses related to scholarly activity. Chawla has been a faculty member in the Computer Sciences …
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 have two majors because I want to study bioinformatics in the future, and I think these two fields would help …
By John Mak Deep in the recesses of the UW–Madison Computer Sciences building, a small group of intrepid college students sits huddled around a conference table. Ideas and solutions fly through the room at a blinding pace, and the sound of chatter and the click-clacking of keyboards is incessant. Where an outsider might see chaos, …