The Department of Computer Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is proud to welcome our newest faculty members:
Core Faculty
Ali Abedi
PhD: University of Waterloo
Research areas: Systems and Networking
Joins UW-Madison Fall 2024
Email: aabedi@wisc.edu
Sandeep Silwal
PhD: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Research area: Theory
Joins UW-Madison Fall 2024
Email: silwal@cs.wisc.edu
Manolis Vlatakis
PhD: Columbia University
Research Areas: Machine Learning/Game Theory/Optimization
Joins UW-Madison Fall 2024
Email: vlatakis@wisc.edu
Tengyang Xie
PhD: University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign
Research Area: Machine Learning
Joins UW- Madison Fall 2024
Email: tx@cs.wisc.edu
Adithya Murali
PhD: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Research Area: Programming Languages
Joins UW-Madison Spring 2025
Email: adithyamurali@cs.wisc.edu
Akarsh Prabhakara
PhD: Carnegie Mellon University
Research Area: Wireless and Cyber-physical Systems
Joins UW-Madison Spring 2025
Email: akarsh@cs.wisc.edu
Mike Hagenow
PhD: UW-Madison
Research Area: Robotics
Joins UW-Madison Fall 2025
Misha Kodak
PhD: Carnegie Mellon University
Research Areas: Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning
Joins UW-Madison Fall 2025
Ananya Kumar
PhD: Stanford University
Research Area: Machine Learning
Joins UW-Madison Fall 2025
Masatoshi Uehara
PhD: Cornell University
Research Area: Machine Learning
Joins UW-Madison Fall 2025
Jiawei Zhang
PhD: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Research Area: Optimization
Joins UW-Madison Fall 2025
Teaching Faculty
Cole Nelson
MS, Computer Sciences, UW-Madison
Email: ctnelson2@wisc.edu
Hina Mahmood
PhD, Software Engineering, McMasters University, Canada
Email: mahmood@cs.wisc.edu
Kaiser Pister
MS. Natural Language Processing, University of California-San Diego
Email: kaiser@cs.wisc.edu