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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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.
