Computer Sciences Professor Patrick McDaniel takes CDIS to new heights
“One of the important things to know about being a researcher is that you don’t do it in a bubble. You’re surrounded by students and they help define the scope of your research,” McDaniel said …
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 …
Turing Award Winner & UW Alumnus Pat Hanrahan’s Visit Rendered Huge Crowds
When Pat Hanrahan presented his talk “Shading Languages and the Emergence of Programmable Graphic Systems” on Wednesday, October 12, 2022, there was no need for his ground-breaking Renderman Interface to digitally create a crowd. The …
People and Robots featured in UW TV spot
The featured robot is only one of many that are part of the research in the laboratory, which is focused on enabling effective and intuitive interactions between people and robotic technologies and facilitating the successful …
$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 Rishab Goyal, specializing in cryptography and computer security
Rishab Goyal joins the UW-Madison Computer Sciences faculty from a postdoc position at MIT. He will teach and research in the areas of cryptography and computer security, and his main research question is, “How can …
CS grad student Shashank Rajput awarded 2022 Google Fellowship for cutting-edge computing research
One of Rajput’s projects focused on building AI-powered recommendation systems – like what Netflix, YouTube, or other media sites use – that rely on transformer networks. Transformer networks tell the recommendation system what part of …
Open Science Grid User School welcomes students from around the globe
Five students from Makerere University in Uganda and the University Of Sciences, Techniques, and Technologies of Bamako in Mali, Africa, participated as a part of The U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) …
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 …
Professor Patrick McDaniel joins UW-Madison Computer Sciences Department to focus on cybersecurity and systems
Patrick McDaniel come to UW-Madison from 18 years as a professor at Pennsylvania State University. He earned his PhD at University of Michigan, and worked in startups after that. McDaniel first visited Madison 20 years …
Grandparents University featured social robotics and learning Scratch from the CS Dept
What do you get when you combine the wonderment of childhood with the experience of a lifetime? Magic, and that’s what Grandparents University is all about. For the first time since the pandemic began, grandparents …
UW-Madison wins silver at ICPC North America Championship
The UW-Madison International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) team continued its streak with its 21st advancement to the world finals. At the North America Championship, the top 50 teams from the US and Canada vied for slots …
Cybersecurity UW Club places in top 2% at national cybersecurity competition
CS students Paul Chung and Nic Draves (founder) were part of the Cybersecurity UW team that placed 49th out of over 3,000 teams at the Spring 2022 Cyber Skyline NCL Team Game – that’s in …
Colorstack Gives UW-Madison CS Students of Color a Place To Be Their Authentic Selves
Most undergraduate students know that connecting with other students in your major is important for getting help on big assignments, swapping career advice, and even celebrating after an exam. These benefits are part of why …
Somesh Jha Awarded Kellett Mid-Career Award
Professor Somesh Jha was honored with the UW-Madison Kellett Mid-Career Award for 2022-23. The award recognizes and supports mid-career faculty who are seven to 20 years past their promotion to a tenured position, providing them …
High-Throughput Computing as an Enabler of Black Hole Science
On June 25, 2021, Arizona astrophysicist Feryal Ozel posted an item on Twitter that must have fired up scientific imaginations. She noted that the Open Science Pool (OSPool) just set a single-day record of capacity delivered — …
Aspirations Award Celebrates Accomplishment and Encourages Women in Computer Science
While the field of computer science has experienced substantial growth in the last decade, women, genderqueer, and non-binary students continue to be underrepresented in the major, including at UW-Madison. To increase their representation in the …
Students Learn From Each Other at Computer Sciences Research Symposium
By Elea Levin The UW-Madison Association for Computing Machinery student chapter (SACM) and Women’s Association for Computing Machinery (WACM) hosted an in-person and virtual research symposium on April 1. The event had a large turnout, …
Computer Sciences Capstone course: “I’ve never felt so proud of something I’ve made in class before”
by Elea Levin Most classes require students to take a final exam or turn in a final paper at the end of the semester for professors to evaluate their work. In Computer Science 638, the …
UPL Hackathon Brought Students Together With the Theme “Help Your Community”
By Elea Levin This spring about 70 students divided into 30 teams participated in the 2022 “Hatathon,” a hat-themed, 24-hour hackathon event hosted by the UW-Madison Undergraduate Projects Lab (UPL). The UPL is a space …
Aws Albarghouthi wins Class of 1955 Teaching Excellence Award
By Elea Levin Aws Albarghouthi, an associate professor in the Computer Sciences Department, is being awarded the Class of 1955 Teaching Excellence Award. The award was created to honor professors who have had a prominent …
Earlence Fernandes awarded National Science Foundation CAREER Award
By Elea Levin Earlence Fernandes, an assistant professor in the UW-Madison Computer Sciences Department, was awarded the National Science Foundation’s CAREER Award for his research on Security and Privacy Foundations of Internet-Scale User-Centered Automation. The …
Suman Banerjee Chosen as IEEE Fellow
By Elea Levin Computer Sciences Professor Suman Banerjee became an Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers Fellow effective January 1, 2022. The title, which is one of the most prestigious honors of the IEEE, was …
AAAS Honors UW-Madison Computer Sciences Faculty Members Mark D. Hill, Somesh Jha, and Jignesh Patel as Lifetime AAAS Fellows
Madison, WI and Washington, D.C. — The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world’s largest general scientific society and publisher of the Science family of journals, has elected three faculty from the …
UW-Madison Team Continues Record 20-Year Streak in ICPC World Finals
After 18 months full of unprecedented hurdles, the UW-Madison team finished 17th out of 117 teams at the International Collegiate Programming Contest world finals in Moscow. They also ranked fourth out of the 15 North …
Celebration of Life Held for CS Emeritus Professor Olvi Mangasarian
On Saturday, October 30, 2021, family and friends celebrated the life of Computer Sciences Emeritus Professor Olvi Mangasarian (1934-2020). The service was recorded and is available here, including tributes by Leon Mangasarian (his son), CS …
New associate professor Yudong Chen joins UW-Madison CS in statistical and theoretical machine learning
Yudong Chen comes to UW-Madison Computer Sciences from a faculty position in the School of Operations Research and Information Engineering at Cornell University. He is researching and teaching in the area of machine learning, statistics, …
Cheesehacks Hackathon Participants Build Apps to Address Real-World Issues, Eat A Lot of Cheese
by Elea Levin Over 100 students participated in the first ever CheeseHacks hackathon event October 23 and 24, hosted by the UW-Madison Google Developers Student Club and UW Web Dev Club. The Hackathon aimed to …
Over 100 students participate in first UW-Madison Datathon
By Elea Levin One hundred and three participants competed in the first ever UW-Madison Datathon on October 16 and 17, hosted by the UW-Madison Data Science Club. In addition to the hackathon, the event included …
CS undergrad Atulya Reddy designs app to repair connections torn by pandemic
Reddy felt that one of the side effects of the pandemic was the absence of vital social learning that happens with in-person classes. They wanted to set themselves up for a productive academic year, where …
UW-Madison Game Design Certificate Focuses on Creating Positive
By Elea Levin Have you played a game on your phone today? Maybe you participated in a rec or club sports game over the weekend? Did you have a Monopoly night with your roommates last …
CS alum Matt Amodio (MS ’17) wins 38 games of Jeopardy
Matt Amodio was recently eliminated from the game of Jeopardy, but not before he set the second longest all-time win streak in the show’s history.
Assistant Professor Josiah Hanna comes to UW-Madison Computer Sciences to focus on machine learning and robotics
Josiah Hanna comes to UW-Madison from earning his PhD at the University of Texas-Austin. Hanna works at the intersection of machine learning and robotics, focusing on reinforcement learning (RL). RL “allows computers and robots to …
Associate Professor Yong Jae Lee joins UW-Madison Computer Sciences Department to focus on Computer Vision
Yong Jae Lee comes to UW-Madison from an artificial intelligence visiting faculty position at Cruise and before that from faculty positions at University of California-Davis. Lee studies Computer Vision – “enabling machines to ‘see’ the …
Assistant Professor Ming Liu joins UW-Madison Computer Sciences Department in Networking and Systems
Ming Liu joins the UW-Madison Computer Sciences Department as an assistant professor after earning his PhD in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Washington. His research focuses on networking and systems and using …
Loris D’Antoni selected as 2021 Certain-Sandefur Letters & Science Distinguished Faculty awardee
Associate Professor of Computer Sciences Loris D’Antoni has been awarded the 2021 Phillip R. Certain-Gary D. Sandefur Letters & Science Distinguished Faculty Award. This award honors a faculty member in the College of Letters and …
2021 SIGPLAN Research Highlight awarded to Computer Sciences faculty and alumnus
By Elea Levin A paper written by PhD student Samuel Drews and Computer Sciences Professors Aws Albarghouthi and Loris D’Antoni was recognized as a 2021 SIGPLAN Research Highlight. Of the paper entitled “Proving Data-Poisoning Robustness …
Jin-Yi Cai awarded Fulkerson Prize for work in discrete mathematics
Computer Sciences Professor Jin-Yi Cai has been awarded the Fulkerson Prize for work in discrete mathematics. He received the award in recognition of his article “Complexity of Counting CSP with Complex Weights,” jointly with Xi …
Professor Mohit Gupta and WISIONLab colleagues awarded additional Sony funding for Single Photon Imaging project
Professor Mohit Gupta and colleagues at the Wisconsin Computational Imaging and Vision Lab (WISIONLab) at UW-Madison have been awarded an additional year of funding by the Sony Research Award Program (SRAP) for their research project …
CS Professor Somesh Jha named distinguished alumnus from IIT Delhi
Computer Sciences Professor Somesh Jha has received a Distinguished Alumni Award from the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IIT Delhi) in recognition of his outstanding achievements in teaching and research. Jha joins a prestigious group …
Postdoc Sushrut Karmalkar: In his own words
Postdoc Sushrut Karmalkar has joined UW-Madison this fall as a research associate with Professor Ilias Diakonikolas. In his own words: My choice of UW-Madison had to do with its excellent research atmosphere and a very …
Michael Ferris developing vaccine fairness recommendation engine
Ferris and Corey Jackson, assistant professor at the UW–Madison Information School in CDIS, are developing a vaccine fairness recommendation engine that will support equitable decision making . . .
NIST award helps Computer Sciences professors help first responders
First responders make split second decisions under stressful conditions that may make the difference between life and death. Thanks to UW-Madison Computer Sciences professor Suman Banerjee and his team, the tools first responders rely on …
Ethics in Computer Science: new course prepares students to tackle ethical challenges in tech
By Elea Levin With technology evolving faster than ever and bringing important benefits to countless individuals’ lives, Professor Paul Barford decided to create a course that gives students a chance to explore the ethical risks …
UW researchers join three national artificial intelligence institutes
University of Wisconsin–Madison researchers are collaborating with three national artificial intelligence institutes on projects promoting sustainable food systems and advanced wireless networks.
Computer Sciences embraces interest and demand, and grows by 800%
2,022 students now declared majors By Nicole Herzog In 2011, just 200 students were Computer Science majors. A decade later, the number of students enrolled in the discipline has grown more than ten times—a direct …
Congratulations to CS undergrad Hilldale Research Fellowship recipients!
Seven Computer Sciences majors were awarded Hilldale Undergraduate/Faculty Research Fellowships at the recent Chancellor’s Undergraduate Awards Ceremony. Grants are awarded to undergraduates and their faculty/staff advisors for research collaboration. The CS students and faculty winners …
Jin-Yi Cai awarded prestigious Gödel Prize
Professor Jin-Yi Cai of the Department of Computer Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has been jointly awarded the prestigious Gödel Prize in theoretical computer science. The award is sponsored by the European Association for …
UW Researchers Using Computer Modeling, Social Science To Improve Vaccine Delivery
With the goal of making future vaccination distribution more efficient and equitable, UW researchers have been working to use computer modeling in more realistic ways.
UW-Madison computer science major grows by more than 800% as tech industry flourishes
Computer science has become the largest major on the UW-Madison campus – with over 2,000 students – and is only expected to continue growing as students break into many different industries.
Human-Computer Interaction focuses on technology to improve daily lives
Researchers at UW-Madison’s School of Computer, Data & Information Sciences have been working on “human-computer interaction” in attempts to greatly improve our daily lives.
Incoming faculty member Ming Liu awarded SIGCOMM Doctoral Dissertation Award honorable mention
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 …
Protecting Infrastructure: Wildfires damage cellphone towers, and researchers offer site-specific solutions.
Wildfires have been causing recent damage to cellphone towers, and researchers have been tasked with finding site-specific, long-lasting solutions.
Computer Sciences Capstone class provides real-world projects for UW-Madison undergrads
By Elea Levin While most students have to wait for an internship to get hands-on experience working with a company in their field, a group of undergraduates had the opportunity to gain this real world …
CS Grad Students achieve success in Three Minute Thesis Competition
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 …
Assistant Professor Yingyu Liang presented with prestigious NSF Career Award
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 …
UW-Madison programming teams take ICPC by storm – for the 20th year in a row
By Elea Levin The regional round of the International Collegiate Programming Contest was held remotely on February 27 after being pushed back from November due to Covid-19. Ninety teams from the region competed in the …
Building better human-bot cybersecurity teams: University of Wisconsin-Madison led team wins prestigious US Department of Defense MURI grant
By Karen Barrett-Wilt A multi-university team led by Somesh Jha at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has won a prestigious US Department of Defense Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI) Award. Seven universities comprise the group: University …
“Data Science in Madison” class offers UW students real world projects
Read the Capital Times story about Dr. Tyler Caraza-Harter’s “Data Science in Madison” class, including City of Madison projects such as water usage and bus routes.
UW-Madison Computer Sciences Students Fill the COVID-19 gap with BadgerHacks
By Elea Levin On January 21 at 6 a.m.,125 people across the country and the world put their heads down and dove into three full days of coding. They were participating in BadgerHacks, a hackathon …
Assistant Professor Swamit Tannu joins UW-Madison Computer Sciences to teach Computer Architecture and Quantum Computing
Swamit Tannu, new assistant professor specializing in computer architecture and quantum computing, joins UW-Madison Computer Sciences from Georgia Tech, where he completed his PhD. His research focuses on “architecture and compilation techniques to mitigate hardware …
Assistant Professor Frederic Sala joins UW-Madison Computer Sciences to teach Machine Learning and Data Analytics
Frederic Sala joins the UW-Madison Computer Sciences Department from Stanford University where he was a postdoctoral scholar. He completed his PhD in electrical engineering at University of California-Los Angeles, where he studied machine learning, information …
Assistant Professor Yuhang Zhao joins UW-Madison Computer Sciences Department to teach Human-Computer Interaction
Yuhang Zhao joins the UW-Madison Computer Sciences Department from Cornell University, where she completed her PhD in Information Science. Zhao studies Human-Computer Interaction, and more specifically is interested in understanding “the diverse abilities that people …
Andrea Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau, and Suman Banerjee named 2020 Association for Computing Machinery Fellows
UW-Madison Computer Sciences professors Andrea Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau, and Suman Banerjee join ten other UW-Madison CS faculty as 2020 Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Fellows: Andrea Arpaci-Dusseau: For contributions to storage and computer systems Remzi …
CS Graduate Student Jordan Henkel awarded 2021 Microsoft Research Fellowship
Congratulations to Jordan Henkel for being chosen a 2021 Microsoft Research Fellow! Students are nominated by their university for this prestigious award, and only ten fellowships were awarded this year. Students receive two years of …
Meet Kayla Gross, CS Inclusion Program Manager
Kayla Gross has just begun her appointment as the Inclusion Program Manager for the Department of Computer Sciences at UW-Madison. She is responsible for improving the enrollment, retention, and experiences of female-identified students in the …
The trials and tribulations of academic publishing – and fuzz testing
By Karen Barrett-Wilt The story of fuzz testing begins on “a dark and stormy night. Really,” says UW-Madison Computer Sciences professor Barton Miller, who developed the methodology. Fuzz testing — now an accepted and widely …
exploreCSR grant helps UW-Madison Computer Sciences provide research opportunities to underrepresented students
Computer Sciences professors Jelena Diakonikolas and Shivaram Venkataraman have been awarded an exploreCSR grant from Google to encourage underrepresented students at the undergraduate level to pursue CS research and apply to graduate programs. Diakonikolas and …
Professor Stephen Wright Announced Winner of the Test of Time Award at 2020 NeurIPS Conference
By Sunčana Pavlic UW-Madison Computer Sciences professor Stephen Wright and three colleagues formerly from the department were announced winners of the Test of Time Award at the 2020 Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS). …
Stephen Wright wins 2020 INFORMS Optimization Society Khachiyan Prize
Computer Sciences Professor Stephen Wright has won the INFORMS Optimization Society Khachiyan Prize “For his vast contributions to continuous optimization, spanning theory, algorithms and software, and the impact of his work on control, signal processing, …
Mohit Gupta chosen for Sony Research Faculty Innovation Award
Mohit Gupta has just received a Sony Research Faculty Innovation Award for his work on single-photon imaging. Single-photon sensors are an exciting new sensor technology that have the unique ability to capture individual photons of light with …
National Science Foundation establishes a partnership to advance throughput computing
By Brian Mattmiller, Morgridge Institute for Research Recognizing the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s leadership role in research computing, the National Science Foundation announced this month that the Madison campus will be home to a five-year, $22.5 …
Computer Sciences Professor Mark Hill retires after 32 years at UW-Madison
It is with both sadness and happiness that we announce Mark D. Hill’s retirement from UW-Madison and the beginning of a new chapter as Professor Emeritus. We congratulate Mark on a fruitful and successful tenure …
Eight Computer Sciences undergrad honorees awarded scholarships
The Chancellor’s Undergraduate Awards Ceremony was held online this year and honors include eight Computer Sciences undergraduates. Congratulations to all! You can read the full article here. CS honorees are as follows: Hilldale Undergraduate/Faculty Research …
Yea-Seul Kim, assistant professor in HCI, visualization, and data science, joins UW-Madison Department of Computer Sciences
Yea-Seul Kim joins the CS Department from the University of Washington where she earned a PhD in information science. She had previously received an MS in human-centered design and engineering from the same university. Her …
Computer Sciences Professor AnHai Doan’s GreenBay Technologies Acquired by Informatica
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) …
Institute for the Foundations of Data Science partnership earns NSF funding; directed by CS professor Stephen Wright at UW-Madison
University of Wisconsin–Madison data scientists are harnessing big data and laying the foundations for major advances in data-rich applications thanks to a five-year, $4.6 million grant from the National Science Foundation. The team at UW–Madison is co-leading a cohort of institutions to study the theoretical underpinnings of the rapidly growing field of data science. The Institute for the Foundations of Data Science (IFDS) — with partners at the University of Washington, the University of California, Santa Cruz, and the University of Chicago — is being funded by a $12.5 million Phase II grant from NSF’s Transdisciplinary Research in Principles of Data Science (TRIPODS) program. $4.6 million is slated for UW–Madison.
UW-Madison Computer Sciences Department welcomes Sharon Li, assistant professor in deep learning and artificial intelligence
Sharon Li, one of Forbes 30-under-30- Science honorees, joins the CS Department from a post-doc at Stanford University. Li has been interested in math and physics since high school, and when she discovered machine learning, …
Mohit Gupta: Better low-light photography may come one photon at a time
Sensors that catch just the minimum amount of light could be better than typical digital cameras at capturing everyday memories in challenging environments.
Miron Livny awarded 2020 IEEE Award for Outstanding Technical Achievement and 2020 High Impact Paper Award
Computer Sciences Professor Miron Livny has been selected for two prestigious IEEE awards: the 2020 IEEE Technical Committee on Distributed Processing (TCDP) Award for Outstanding Technical Achievement and a 2020 IEEE TDCP ICDCS High Impact …
Professor Akella selected as 2020 Finalist for Blavatnik National Award for Young Scientists
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 …
Computer Sciences faculty members Banerjee and Gupta awarded MLWiNS research funding
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 …
Computer Sciences awarded interdisciplinary faculty cluster hire
Computer Sciences professors Loris D’Antoni and Aws Albarghouthi co-proposed a faculty cluster hire that was accepted and is available to hire three faculty over the next two years. Cluster hires are awarded by the …
CS professors awarded Provost’s Career Awards
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, …
UW alum’s Last Lock named Top 12 in Governor’s Business Plan Competition, receives $100k investment
Credit to Yu Wen Mak and Charlie Chermak Many people dream of running their own company and being their own boss. For Jack Ryan, a UW-Madison alumnus from Eden Prairie, MN, that dream has already …
Virginia Tech and UW-Madison awarded NSF funding to help developers write more secure code
Daphne Yao and Na Meng of Virginia Tech and Barton Miller of the University of Wisconsin-Madison have been awarded $1.2 million over four years by the National Science Foundation Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace Program for …
Dieter van Melkebeek presented with 2020 ACM-SIGACT Distinguished Service Award
Computer Sciences Professor Dieter van Melkebeek will be presented with the prestigious 2020 ACM-SIGACT Distinguished Service Award for his leadership in creating the Computational Complexity Foundation (CCF) and transitioning the annual Computational Complexity Conference to …
2020 UW Computer Sciences Nest Software Contest – congratulations, participants and winners!
We are pleased to announce the winners of the eleventh annual UW Computer Sciences Department Nest Software Contest – an annual software contest for UW-Madison students to innovate and develop new software technologies. This program …
Yujie (Maggie) Guo, Computer Sciences & Biology
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 …
CS Professor Shuchi Chawla wins Chancellor’s Teaching Innovation Award
Thirteen faculty members have been chosen to receive this year’s Distinguished Teaching Awards, an honor that annually recognizes some of UW–Madison’s finest educators. The following testimonials were given, and photographs made, before virtual teaching was instituted …
Computer Sciences Org Spotlight: Coding for Good
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 …
Loris D’Antoni Receives 2020 Microsoft Research Faculty Fellowship
UW-Madison Computer Sciences Assistant Professor Loris D’Antoni has been selected as a recipient of the 2020 Microsoft Research Faculty Fellowship in recognition of his accomplishments, impact, and leadership in the field. He is one of …
Will the Internet hold up in the face of COVID-19?
Most of us are online now more than ever. We’re working from home, taking our classes at home, watching movies at home, and connecting with our friends while at home – all of it online. …
Rafael Garcia Chavez, Computer Sciences, Math & Statistics
Year in school (and/or when you expect to graduate): Junior – (May 2021) Hometown: Monterrey, Mexico Which major came first? Or did you decide to pursue them both at the same time? I initially wanted …
UW-Madison Computer Sciences Department welcomes Jelena Diakonikolas, assistant professor in optimization and machine learning
Jelena Diakonikolas joins the UW-Madison Department of Computer Sciences from a postdoctoral position at UC Berkeley’s TRIPODS Institute for Foundations of Data Analysis. Diakonikolas works on optimization theory, specifically “the theory and design of optimization …
Olvi Mangasarian, Emeritus Professor and pioneer in mathematical programming, passed away March 15
We are sad to report that Olvi L. Mangasarian, the John von Neumann Professor Emeritus of Mathematics and Computer Sciences at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, passed away on March 15 from complications from a fall …
