Jin-Yi Cai, a professor in Computer Sciences Department, was selected as a 2023 Fellow of the American Mathematical Society (AMS) for “contributions to computational complexity theory, especially in the areas of complexity dichotomy.” AMS Fellows are chosen annually …
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L&S Dean’s Message
Message from College of Letters & Science Dean Eric Wilcots: Fall semester is well underway, and there is much to celebrate this year! UW-Madison’s freshman class is, once again, the largest in history, and it …
UW-Madison cultivates new cyber academic cooperation, partnerships with government
Students in UW-Madison’s Computer Sciences Department are accustomed to firsts: the first PhD in computer science granted in the United States, or the nation’s first master’s program in data engineering. Recently students in a UW-Madison …
Center for High Throughput Computing Unsung Hero of HPCwire 2022 Readers’ Choice Award
As with many awards, there are a lot of unsung heroes and that includes the Center for High Throughput Computing (CHTC) and its contributions to IceCube. “We have used CHTC and the Open Science Pool …
Computer Sciences professors honored at Letters & Science Investiture Ceremony
Three Computer Sciences professors were recently honored at the first College of Letters & Science (L&S) Investiture Ceremony for professors with new named chairs and professorships: Andrea Arpaci-Dusseau: Catherine A Erickson Professorship in the School …
Computer Sciences welcomes new teaching faculty Gurmail Singh and Scott Swanson
The Department of Computer Sciences welcomes two new teaching faculty: Gurmail Singh and Scott Swanson. Read about them below! Gurmail Singh Hometown: Regina, Canada Educational/professional background: Ph.D. University of Regina; Postdoc. Department of Computer Science …
Six Computer Sciences MS/PhD students recognized as LEAP fellows
Six Computer Sciences MS/PhD students were selected as LEAP Fellows. The LEAP Alliance is focused on diversifying future leadership in the computing professoriate as a way to increase diversity across the field of computing. Congratulations …
$3.4 million WARF investment in UW-Madison research computing means, “Our researchers can breathe easier now.”
Modern academic research runs on computational power—and in today’s research labs, central processing units (CPUs) and graphics processing units (GPUs) are critical pieces in a scientist’s workbench. So with funding secured through the WARF investment, …
Computer Sciences welcomes Assistant Professor Kirthevasan Kandasamy, focusing on machine learning
Kirthevasan (Kirthi) Kandasamy comes to UW-Madison from a postodoc at UC-Berkeley. He will research and teach about machine learning, which he says he happened on accidentally, and he’s never looked back! Kansdasamy works more specifically …