CS alum Archit Gupta (MS ’08) creates tax and financial gamechanger in India

Gupta discusses his time in the UW–Madison CS MS program (“UW–Madison has a great computer sciences program and fantastic faculty”) and what he thinks it takes a successful entrepreneur: Archit Gupta creates tax and financial tech gamechanger in India

CS’s Loris D’Antoni: Saying “grazie” to a mentor

Read all about D’Antoni below – the ongoing value and influence of his undergraduate advisor at the University of Torino, Mariangiola Dezani, and her teaching style, how he feels about pasta, and his variety of Twitter posts: Saying ‘grazie’ to a mentor

Fall 2022 Commencement

Congratulations, graduates! Click here for CS graduation information! Questions? Click on the link above for advisor email addresses.

Spotlight on Maria Yuin, MS ’98

By Karen Barrett-Wilt Maria Yuin came to UW–Madison to study computer science – and to play bassoon. One thing that drew her to UW–Madison was that she could play bassoon in music ensembles for non-majors in the School of Music while pursuing her CS degree. Read more about Maria and what it’s like to see …

Professor Eftychios Sifakis instrumental in developing innovative new AI tool for re-aging actors

The news is full of articles about an innovative tool that uses Artificial Intelligence to change how old actors look in movies. This is not new – actors’ apparent ages in movies have been manipulated in different ways for a long time. What is new is the believability and ease of use of this method, …

Jin-Yi Cai selected 2023 American Mathematical Society Fellow

Jin-Yi Cai, a professor in Computer Sciences Department, was selected as a 2023 Fellow of the American Mathematical Society (AMS) for “contributions to computational complexity theory, especially in the areas of complexity dichotomy.” AMS Fellows are chosen annually in recognition of their outstanding contributions to the creation, exposition, advancement, communication, and utilization of mathematics.  “I am very honored …

L&S Dean’s Message

Message from College of Letters & Science Dean Eric Wilcots: Fall semester is well underway, and there is much to celebrate this year! UW–Madison’s freshman class is, once again, the largest in history, and it is also the most diverse. Here in L&S, we have a student body full of talent and we are providing …

UW-Madison cultivates new cyber academic cooperation, partnerships with government

Students in UW–Madison’s Computer Sciences Department are accustomed to firsts: the first PhD in computer science granted in the United States, or the nation’s first master’s program in data engineering.  Recently students in a UW–Madison software security course took part in another first: a cyber tabletop exercise facilitated by the US Department of Homeland Security’s …

Center for High Throughput Computing Unsung Hero of HPCwire 2022 Readers’ Choice Award

As with many awards, there are a lot of unsung heroes and that includes the Center for High Throughput Computing (CHTC) and its contributions to IceCube. “We have used CHTC and the Open Science Pool (OSPool) for over a decade to perform all large-scale data analysis tasks and generate Monte Carlo simulations of the instrument’s …

Spotlight on Leo Rudberg, BS ’16

By Karen Barrett-Wilt Leo Rudberg will make you smile. He started out at UW–Madison as a math major and wasn’t sure what to make of the late Susan Horwitz’s recommendation that everyone should take CS302. He says, “I thought only geeks studied CS. (I understand the irony of saying this as a Math major). However, …