College of Computing & Artificial Intelligence
“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 in our interview with him. Treating students as legitimate contributors to his research has resulted in a strong sense of …
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 of Computer, Data & Information Sciences Patrick McDaniel: Tsun-Ming Shih Chair in the College of Letters & Science Karu Sankaralingam: …
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 and Department of Software Systems at University of Regina Could you please describe your area of focus? I work on …
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 to the new UW–Madison LEAP Fellows! Eddie Barton Quinn Burke Eric Evans Jeremy McMahan David Parra Ryan Sheatsley LEAP Alliance …
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 Computer Sciences lecture hall was at capacity, and a second room was set up for people to watch via Zoom. …
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 integration of these technologies into human environments.
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, CHTC began executing a major hardware refresh this summer, adding 207 new servers representing over 40,000 “batch slots” of computing …
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 advanced cryptography secure emerging applications in light of growing privacy concerns due to rapid scientific and technological innovation?” Goyal’s work …
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 the input to focus on, such as whether it should pay more attention to the most recent movies you’ve watched. …
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) and the African Centers for Excellence in Bioinformatics and Data-Intensive Science (ACE) partnership program. This event was not the first …