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 …
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 …
Amanda Robinson, Computer Sciences & Spanish
Year in school (and/or when you expect to graduate): Senior, expected graduation May 2020 Hometown: Oregon, WI Why are you pursuing degrees in both of your areas? I am pursuing both because I am passionate …
Ph.D Student Yannis Chronis Wins 2020 Facebook Fellowship Award
By John Mak UW-Madison Computer Sciences Ph.D student Yannis Chronis has been awarded a 2020 Facebook Fellowship for his work in structured data stores. Every year, the Facebook Fellowship program awards Ph.D candidates conducting research in important topics across …
HTCondor: Paving the Way to the Future
By John Mak Before 1988, a study involving tens of thousands of pieces of data would have been a scientist’s life’s work. Years spent meticulously measuring, tabulating, and hypothesizing would mean that only the most …
Graduate Student Jinwoo Kim Wins POPL Student Research Competition
By John Mak Jinwoo Kim, a graduate student in programming languages in the Department of Computer Sciences at UW-Madison, has won the 2020 Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages (POPL) Student Research Competition (SRC) with …
Computer Sciences Professor Shuchi Chawla wins 2020 Distinguished Teaching Award
Professor Shuchi Chawla of the Computer Sciences Department has won the 2020 Chancellor’s Teaching Innovation Award, one of this year’s Distinguished Teaching Awards. “This award recognizes the hard work numerous peer mentors and TAs have …
CS Department welcomes Xiangyao Yu, Assistant Professor in Database Systems and Computer Architecture
Xiangyao Yu comes to the Department of Computer Sciences at UW-Madison from his position as Visiting Researcher at Google Madison. Previously he was a post-doctoral associate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). His research …
CS professor Justin Hsu wins Distinguished Paper Award at POPL 2020
Assistant Professor Justin Hsu and his coauthors have been awarded a distinguished paper award at POPL 2020 (ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on the Principles of Programming Languages). Hsu’s coauthors are Steffen Smolka (Cornell University), Nate Foster …
Caleb LaCount, Computer Sciences & Dairy Science
Year in school (and/or when you expect to graduate): Junior, Graduating Spring 2021 Hometown: Appleton, WI (Kimberly High School) Why are you pursuing degrees in both of your areas? Why did you add the second …
Malinda Miller, Computer Sciences & Art
Year in school (and/or when you expect to graduate): Graduated Dec. 2019 Hometown: Owen, WI Why did you pursue degrees in both of your areas? Why did you add the second one (if you did)? …
Incoming Assistant Professor Sharon Li Named One of Forbes 30 under 30
Sharon Li has been named to Forbes 30 under 30-Science for her work in deep learning, specifically applied to image recognition problems. (Visit Sharon’s complete Forbes profile.) She is excited about the prospect of joining …
CS Department welcomes Ilias Diakonikolas, Assistant Professor in Algorithms and Machine Learning
Ilias Diakonikolas comes to the Department of Computer Sciences at UW-Madison from the University of Southern California and the University of Edinburgh. His research areas are algorithms and the foundations of machine learning, and some …
Single Photon 3D Imaging Paper wins Marr Prize Honorable Mention at IEEE ICCV
By John Mak On the 30th of October, three researchers in the UW-Madison Department of Computer Sciences – Anant Gupta, Atul Ingle, and Mohit Gupta – won the Marr Prize – honorable mention at the …
UW-Madison Dept. of Computer Sciences professors Diakonikolas and Tzamos presented with outstanding paper award at NeurIPS 2019
Ilias Diakonikolas and Christos Tzamos, two UW-Madison Computer Sciences professors, have earned the outstanding paper award at NeurIPS 2019, the Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems. NeurIPS is one of the most prestigious conferences on …
Computing Community Consortium Releases AI Roadmap for Next 20 Years
By John Mak Earlier this year, the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) released their completed Artificial Intelligence Roadmap, A 20-Year Community Roadmap for AI Research in the US. The roadmap mainly focuses on identifying challenges, opportunities, …
UW-Madison wins at International Collegiate Programming Contest, goes to world finals for 19th year running
By John Mak On the ninth of November, the regional round of the International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC, formerly known as the ACM programming competition) was held on the Epic campus. Of 180 teams in …
Women technologists of the world come together for annual Grace Hopper Conference
Women technologists of the world, unite! Eighteen UW-Madison Computer Sciences Department students attended the 2019 Grace Hopper Celebration (GHC), the largest gathering of women technologists in the world, in early October in Orlando, FL. In …
UW-Madison announces new School of Computer, Data & Information Sciences
The University of Wisconsin–Madison has established a School of Computer, Data & Information Sciences (CDIS) in the College of Letters & Science to strengthen research and education on campus, prepare tech-savvy graduates to fill new …
SACM Annual CS Fall Picnic brings together students, faculty, staff
This fall, the Department of Computer Sciences continues its growth with a record-breaking number of incoming graduate students. With this large student body, it becomes increasingly important to build an active community that involves graduate …
CS Department welcomes Earlence Fernandes, assistant professor in computer security
Earlence Fernandes joins the UW-Madison Department of Computer Sciences from his position as a Research Associate at the University of Washington. Fernandes works on computer security for emerging technologies such as smartphones, smart homes, and …
CS Department welcomes Rahul Chatterjee, assistant professor in the Security Research Group
Rahul Chatterjee joins the UW-Madison Department of Computer Sciences from Cornell University, where he completed his PhD. He completed his MS here at UW-Madison and earned a Bachelor of Technology degree from the Indian Institute …
UW-Madison’s Bart Miller part of Cybersecurity Center of Excellence team, awarded 12.5M NSF Renewal Grant
Madison, WI – Trusted CI, the NSF Cybersecurity Center of Excellence, has been awarded a $12.5 million renewal grant by the National Science Foundation, which will allow the center to operate through 2024. Barton Miller, …
Phil and Kit Blake Wisconsin Idea Scholarship benefits computer science students from rural areas
By Maeve Ryan Rural Wisconsin students who attend UW-Madison, who major in computer sciences now have a scholarship option created just for them. Following the Wisconsin Idea, which holds that the UW’s influence should reach …
Jerry Zhu selected for DARPA ISAT study group
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has named Jerry Zhu to the Information Science and Technology (ISAT) Study Group for a three-year term beginning this summer. The group brings 30 of the brightest scientists and engineers …
Mohit Gupta (CS) and Andreas Velten (BMI) finalists for 2019 AutoSens Award
Computer Sciences assistant professor Mohit Gupta and Biostatistics & Medical Informatics assistant professor Andreas Velten have been selected as finalists in the 2019 AutoSens Award Competition in the “Most Influential Research Category.” Their research is …
First Ivanisevic Award recipient Samuel Drews researches fairness properties of automated decision-making
Computer Sciences PhD student Samuel Drews is the first recipient of a new award for dissertators: the Ivanisevic Award. This award was created by Dr Igor Ivanisevic (CS MS ’98; PhD 2000) and Dr Albena …
Sharing control with robots may make manufacturing safer, more efficient
Hulking robots common to assembly line manufacturing tend to be loners. They often cut, bend and weld metal inside cages and behind barriers meant to safely separate them from human workers. “For a long time, …
Mary Vernon honored for fundamental contributions to analytic system design with the 2019 ACM SIGMETRICS Achievement Award
Madison, WI, July 1, 2019 – ACM SIGMETRICS announced the selection of Prof. Mary Vernon of University of Wisconsin–Madison as the recipient of the 2019 ACM SIGMETRICS Achievement Award in recognition of her fundamental contributions …
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 …
One Of World’s Leading Memory Systems Researchers Receives Top Computer Architecture Award
Mark D. Hill Recognized for Seminal Contributions with Eckert-Mauchly Award Madison, WI, June 5, 2019 – ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, and IEEE Computer Society have announced that Mark D. Hill, a professor at …
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
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 teaching students in …
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