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 five hour long competition, including four teams from UW–Madison.  The UW–Madison teams took 1st, 3rd, 4th, and 35th place, with …

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 of Wisconsin–Madison, Carnegie Mellon University, University of California San Diego, Penn State, University of Melbourne, Macquarie University, and University of …

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.

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 organized by three UW–Madison Computer Sciences freshmen and entirely run by UW–Madison students with the support of their advisor, Dr. …

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 error to enable quantum computers that can solve practical problems,” such as designing better drugs, more efficient batteries, and inexpensive …

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 theory, and data science and their intersection. His goal through his research here at UW is to help data-driven systems …

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 have, and to design and build intelligent interactive systems to enhance human abilities and promote equity.” At UW–Madison she plans …

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 Arpaci-Dusseau: For contributions to storage and computer systems Suman Banerjee: For contributions to design, implementation, and tools of wireless systems …

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 tuition and fees at their educational institution, a stipend, and an invitation to a two-day PhD summit. Henkel works with …