Josiah Hanna comes to UW–Madison from earning his PhD at the University of Texas-Austin. Hanna works at the intersection of machine learning and robotics, focusing on reinforcement learning (RL). RL “allows computers and robots to learn from trial and error interaction how to successfully complete tasks rather than being explicitly programmed how to complete the …

Yong Jae Lee comes to UW–Madison from an artificial intelligence visiting faculty position at Cruise and before that from faculty positions at University of California-Davis. Lee studies Computer Vision – “enabling machines to ‘see’ the visual world.” Lee believes it is important to share his work widely, in keeping with the Wisconsin Idea: “It’s very …

Ming Liu joins the UW–Madison Computer Sciences Department as an assistant professor after earning his PhD in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Washington. His research focuses on networking and systems and using new network hardware trends to develop new, cost effective software systems.  Hometown: Helong, China Educational/professional background: I earned my PhD …

Associate Professor of Computer Sciences Loris D’Antoni has been awarded the 2021 Phillip R. Certain-Gary D. Sandefur Letters & Science Distinguished Faculty Award. This award honors a faculty member in the College of Letters and Sciences and recognizes their outstanding teaching.  Honorees for the award are nominated by the academic Associate Deans in the college …

By Elea Levin A paper written by PhD student Samuel Drews and Computer Sciences Professors Aws Albarghouthi and Loris D’Antoni was recognized as a 2021 SIGPLAN Research Highlight.  Of the paper entitled “Proving Data-Poisoning Robustness in Decision Trees,” D’Antoni says, “This work is the first of his kind, as it’s trying to provide formal proofs …

Computer Sciences Professor Jin-Yi Cai has been awarded the Fulkerson Prize for work in discrete mathematics. He received the award in recognition of his article “Complexity of Counting CSP with Complex Weights,” jointly with Xi Chen of Columbia University, which was published in the Journal of the ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) in 2017. The …

Professor Mohit Gupta and colleagues at the Wisconsin Computational Imaging and Vision Lab (WISIONLab) at UW–Madison have been awarded an additional year of funding by the Sony Research Award Program (SRAP) for their research project “Single Photon Imaging”. Dr. Makiko Kan, General Manager at Sony’s R&D  Laboratory, said that Gupta and colleagues’ “outstanding performance in …

Computer Sciences Professor Somesh Jha has received a Distinguished Alumni Award from the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IIT Delhi) in recognition of his outstanding achievements in teaching and research. Jha joins a prestigious group of alumni from IIT Delhi who have made important contributions in science and technology, corporate governance, and public and social …