CS grad student Viswesh Periyasamy (now alum! MS ’19) presents GLBIO poster on degenerative eye disease
Viswesh Periyasamy presented a poster in May at the Great Lakes Bioinformatics Consortium 2019 Conference (GLBIO) on the topic of gene regulatory network inference. This is a method to recover the interactions and relationships between …
Paul Barford named Distinguished Alumnus by Boston University
CS professor Paul Barford was named Distinguished Alumnus by Boston University, where he earned his PhD, at their graduation ceremony this spring (2019). He also had the honor of giving the commencement speech, which can …
Graduate students in their first three years connect with mentors and build community at CRA-W Grad Cohort Workshop
Two UW-Madison Computer Sciences graduate students, Suchita Pati and Swati Anand, had the honor of attending the 2019 Computer Research Association-Women Grad Cohort Workshop. The goal of the program is to build and mentor communities …
UW Changes Lives: gALPHA+CS fosters a new generation of entrepreneurs at UW-Madison
By Maeve Ryan Adithya ‘Adi’ Murali came to UW-Madison as a computer science major. While he knew he had an entrepreneurial spirit, he didn’t know how to channel it. Luckily, a new program at UW-Madison, …
Students, faculty and staff honored at annual awards lunch
On April 29, the Department of Computer Sciences held its annual Computer Sciences Majors and Awards Lunch in the Symphony Room at the Gordon Dining and Events Center. Awards were presented in the following categories: …
Roz Stengle is exploring blockchain at UW-Madison
By Maeve Ryan Roz Stengle is a junior at UW-Madison majoring in computer science and economics. She was born and raised in Princeton, New Jersey and decided to come to UW due in part to …
What they learned: Four UW entrepreneurs, including CS professor Jignesh Patel, focus on the big question
As UW–Madison continues to gain recognition for fueling Wisconsin’s high-tech economy, four experienced entrepreneurs with UW roots shared the cardinal lessons they learned.
HTCondor Week 2019 starts May 20 with events open to the public
HTCondor Week is an annual event for people from academia, industry, and government who utilize the Center for High Throughput Computing resources to enhance their research. Over 100 people from around the globe attend, as …
Computer Sciences student group receives grant to build community
As the Department of Computer Sciences grows, so does the need for community building among the department’s graduate students. Their offices are spread out—some aren’t even in the computer sciences building—and they don’t have many …
Christos Tzamos comes to UW-Madison researching algorithms and machine learning theory
By Maeve Ryan Christos Tzamos, who joined the Department of Computer Sciences faculty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the fall of 2018, plans to continue research from his postdoctoral studies concerning Mechanism Design, Algorithms, …
Submit your poster now! Midwest Machine Learning Symposium in Madison, June 2019
The Midwest ML Symposium aims to convene regional machine learning researchers for stimulating discussions and debates, to foster cross-institutional collaboration, and to showcase the collective talent of ML researchers at all career stages. [past events] When: June …
Sister Mary Kenneth Keller (PhD, 1965): The first PhD in computer science in the US
By Maeve Ryan It’s UW-Madison Commencement Day, 1965. Badgers stand proud in their graduation garb, eager to receive diplomas. Among them, one woman stands out in her gown and nun’s habit: Sister Mary Kenneth Keller, …
Paul Barford and Stephen Wright awarded 2019 IEEE INFOCOM Test of Time Paper Award
Paul Barford and Stephen Wright, along with their collaborators, have been awarded the Test of Time Paper Award for 2019 by IEEE INFOCOM. “Power Awareness in Network Design and Routing,” by Joseph Chabarek, Joel Sommers, …
Alonso Del Rio (BS, ’20) comes full circle with Scratch
By Karen Barrett-Wilt Alonso Del Rio (BS, ’20) was a participant in the first Scratch Club at Shorewood Elementary School in Madison when he was in fifth grade. Now a UW-Madison Computer Science major, he’s …
CS PhD Student Adalbert Gerald Soosai Raj Awarded Capstone PhD Teaching Award
Adalbert Gerald is a PhD student in Computer Sciences and Education, with a focus on making computer science education accessible and relevant to everyone. He has taught a variety of computer sciences classes, including programming …
Justin Hsu comes to UW-Madison exploring randomized algorithms and programming languages
By Maeve Ryan Justin Hsu, who joined the faculty in the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Department of Computer Sciences in the fall of 2018, says that he’s researching programming languages and differential privacy, that is, “what …
Daniel Rakita awarded Microsoft Research PhD Fellowship
Daniel Rakita (CS PhD student) has just been awarded a prestigious Microsoft PhD Fellowship. Only ten are awarded every year. “These are the best PhD students in North America; they are incredibly talented and it …
Aishwarya Ganesan (CS PhD Candidate) awarded Facebook Fellowship
Aishwarya Ganesan (4th year CS PhD candidate) has just been awarded a 2019 Facebook Fellowship. Twenty-one Fellows and seven Emerging Scholars were chosen from over 900 PhD-student applicants from around the world. “I am thrilled …
CS Department holds symposium for high-school computer-science teachers
Over 30 high school computer science teachers from around the state attended a symposium on January 9 hosted by Faculty Associate Andy Kuemmel. The focus of the symposium was “Preparing Your Students for Success as a …
Center for Trustworthy Machine Learning Established with $10 Million NSF Grant
A team of U.S. computer scientists is receiving a $10 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to make machine learning more trustworthy. The grant establishes the Center for Trustworthy Machine Learning (CTML), a …
Elementary and middle-school-aged girls show off their AI skills
A summer-term course for 4th- to 6th-grade girls taught them the basics of programming and AI, and even more importantly, taught them they belong in the STEM world.
Suman Banerjee recognized by Association for Computing Machinery for Outstanding Scientific Contribution to Computing
UW CS Professor Suman Banerjee was recognized by the Association for Computing Machinery for his Outstanding Scientific Contribution to Computing. Read the press release here: 2018 ACM Distinguished Members Recognized for Significant Contributions that have …
UW–Madison Center for High Throughput Computing awarded grant to develop software to process data from High-Luminosity Large Hadron Collider
The Center for High Throughput Computing (CHTC) at the University of Wisconsin–Madison will receive more than $2.2 million as part of a $25 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for its part in …
Kids Connect with Robot Reading Partners
CS professor Bilge Mutlu and grad student Joseph Michaelis believe companion robots will soon be a fixture in homes, and they wondered if those robots could serve as social learning companions for kids. They designed a …
Matthew Sinclair joins Computer Architecture faculty
Matthew Sinclair, who joined the computer architecture faculty in the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Department of Computer Sciences in the fall of 2018, says that he’s working on how to design future computer hardware. “I see …
Suman Banerjee named Distinguished Member of ACM
UW CS Professor Suman Banerjee was recognized by the Association for Computing Machinery for his Outstanding Scientific Contribution to Computing. Read the press release here: 2018 ACM DISTINGUISHED MEMBERS RECOGNIZED FOR SIGNIFICANT CONTRIBUTIONS THAT HAVE …
Shivaram Venkataraman joins Department of Computer Sciences, researching system design in the age of smart devices
“One day you’re doing some small assignments in your dorm, and the next you’re at Google and can build an entire web search engine on your machine if you want to,” says Shivaram. “It was a huge jump!
UW-Madison CS team wins CodRep!
A team consisting of Jordan Henkel (CS graduate student), Shuvendu Lahiri (from Microsoft Research), Ben Liblit, and Tom Reps (both CS faculty) has just won CodRep. CodRep is an international competition on machine learning on …
Eight UW-Madison teams place at ACM International Programming Contest
The regional round of the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest was held last week. UW-Madison participated with 8 teams (listed below). We placed 3rd, 4th, 5th, 9th, 10th, 12th, 25th, and 31st among the 209 …
Arpaci-Dusseaus win 2018 ACM SIGOPS Mark Weiser Award
Professors Andrea Arpaci-Dusseau and Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau from the UW-Madison Computer Sciences Department won the 2018 Mark Weiser Award for “outstanding leadership, innovation, and impact in storage and computer systems research.” They are the first professors …
Report: UW should expand computing efforts
October 2, 2018 By John Lucas The University of Wisconsin–Madison should create a new school to house expanded efforts in computing and data analysis to help students and Wisconsin workers take advantage of a field that is …
Multi-university collaboration will use data science to find the next El Nino
The El Nino and La Nina patterns in the Pacific Ocean are notorious for their long-distance effects on weather as far away as Africa and the Midwestern United States. But climate experts also know of …
Study suggests buried internet infrastructure at risk as sea levels rise
Article by Terry Devitt, University Communications Thousands of miles of buried fiber optic cable in densely populated coastal regions of the United States may soon be inundated by rising seas, according to a new study …
Somesh Jha earns IEEE CSF distinguished paper award
“Privacy Risk in Machine Learning: Analyzing the Connection to Overfitting,” a paper by Somesh Jha and his colleagues, will be presented at the 31st IEEE Computer Security Foundations Symposium July 9-12 at Oxford and has been chosen as …
CS alum Brent Seales makes seeing the unseeable possible in charred Herculaneum scrolls
Revealing contents of 2,000-year-old papyrus from Herculaneum charred by Vesuvius’s eruption UW alum Brent Seales, Director of the Center for Visualization & Virtual Environments at the University of Kentucky, is featured in the article “Buried …
Mark Hill named Chair of the Computing Community Consortium (CCC)
UW-Madison Computer Sciences’s Professor Mark D. Hill has been named Chair of the Computing Community Consortium (CCC), whose mission is to catalyze the computing research community and enable the pursuit of innovative, high-impact research. “It is an …
Latino Youth Summit CS workshop: “Hello, world!”
Meenakshi Syamkumar stands in front of about 20 middle-school students who are participating in the Latino Youth Summit session “Intro to App Building,” while Caroline Hardin walks around the room. The two are graduate students …
University of Wisconsin-Madison awarded grant to reinvent computing
Most people exhibit the patience of a two-year-old when it comes to apps loading on our smartphones or information retrieval on our computers. We post on social media, collect fitness information, and keep hundreds or …
Patel’s DataChat wins Governor’s Business Plan Contest information technology award
Prof. Jignesh Patel’s spinoff DataChat won the information technology award at the 15th annual Governor’s Business Plan Contest this week. The contest was organized by the Wisconsin Technology Council and sponsored by a wide range of …
Congratulations to CS Chair Gurindar Sohi!
Professor Gurindar Sohi was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences this spring – a high honor that places him in the ranks of Martin Luther King, Jr., Albert Einstein and Barack Obama. …
Squashing the bugs in machine learning: Researchers make computer-trained models more trustworthy
By Jennifer Smith While debugging is part and parcel of software development, it has remained an afterthought in the world of machine learning, says Jerry Zhu, who holds the Sheldon B. and Marianne S. Lubar …
Yingyu Liang joins machine learning faculty
By Jennifer Smith Yingyu Liang, a new faculty member in machine learning in the University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Computer Sciences, enjoys bringing his disparate interests together. In his free time, he enjoys hobbies …
Theo Rekatsinas joins database faculty, employs data for major societal impact
By Jennifer Smith “All of the breakthroughs that look like science fiction to us—artificial intelligence, self-driving cars, automated assistants, natural language recognition—are powered by data,” says assistant professor Theo Rekatsinas, who joined the Computer Sciences …
Working on a galaxy far, far away: alum Rachel Rose lands a dream job
By Jennifer Smith [Story by Katie Vaughn, UW-Madison College of Letters & Science] As a child, Rachel Rose wore clothes emblazoned with C-3PO and drifted off to sleep on Star Warssheets. And while the adventures of …
Alum LeBlanc, George Washington University’s newest president, applies CS education to administrative career
By Jennifer Smith “Badger blood doesn’t go away, even though we haven’t lived in Madison in a very long time. My wife and I still think of ourselves as Badgers,” says Thomas J. LeBlanc …
Department joins forces with gener8tor to boost student entrepreneurship
By Jennifer Smith Nationally-ranked accelerator gener8tor is partnering with the UW-Madison Computer Sciences Department and the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF) to bring its gALPHA program to the UW-Madison campus. The program, “gALPHA+CS,” will pull talent and industry …
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