The latest edition details an AI hiring surge, award-winning database research by Paris Koutris, a visit from U.S. Cyber Command, and more.

Adithya Murali comes to UW–Madison from University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign, where he completed his PhD on program verification and program synthesis. He says he is “deeply passionate about the fundamental aspects of problem solving and computational thinking, and looking at how to provide a structured playing field where humans and computers can perform computational tasks …

Akarsh Prabhakara comes to Madison from his PhD studies at Carnegie Mellon University. In his research, Prabhakara is working on wire-free, non-invasive health monitoring to reduce patients’ discomfort at healthcare facilities. He hopes to teach his students to “elegantly answer the whys and hows of each idea/topic” in his courses. And he wants to see …

Paul Barford is one of just twelve faculty members to receive a Distinguished Teaching Award, an honor recognizing some of the University of Wisconsin-Madison's finest educators.

NeurIPS, the Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, is one of the most prestigious conferences in artificial intelligence (AI), held each year in December. This year, Computer Sciences department faculty at the University of Wisconsin–Madison had 29 papers accepted by the conference, showing how the department is shaping research in the field. Congratulations to all faculty …

As the Steve Kleene Professor in the Computer Sciences Department, Zhu was tapped as a thought leader for this initiative because of his extensive background in machine learning.

Asmita Pal, Zhewen Pan, and Elise Song won first place at a recent “reverse pitch” competition hosted by Google and CS' N+1 Institute.