Kayla Gross has just begun her appointment as the Inclusion Program Manager for the Department of Computer Sciences at UW–Madison. She is responsible for improving the enrollment, retention, and experiences of female-identified students in the department. The effort is funded by a multi-year grant from the Center for Inclusive Computing. Gross’s commitment to advancing and …

By Karen Barrett-Wilt The story of fuzz testing begins on “a dark and stormy night. Really,” says UW–Madison Computer Sciences professor Barton Miller, who developed the methodology. Fuzz testing — now an accepted and widely used method of finding bugs in software that will make the software crash — had a rocky road to acceptance …

Computer Sciences professors Jelena Diakonikolas and Shivaram Venkataraman have been awarded an exploreCSR grant from Google to encourage underrepresented students at the undergraduate level to pursue CS research and apply to graduate programs. Diakonikolas and Venkataraman plan to use the grant to host two workshops: the first during spring semester 2021, and the second at …

By Sunčana Pavlic UW–Madison Computer Sciences professor Stephen Wright and three colleagues formerly from the department were announced winners of the Test of Time Award at the 2020 Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS). Wright, alongside former UW–Madison Computer Sciences professors Ben Recht and Chris Ré and former UW–Madison Ph.D. student Feng Niu, received …

Computer Sciences Professor Stephen Wright has won the INFORMS Optimization Society Khachiyan Prize “For his vast contributions to continuous optimization, spanning theory, algorithms and software, and the impact of his work on control, signal processing, and machine learning.” Purpose of the Award The Khachiyan Prize of the INFORMS Optimization Society was established in 2010 and …

Mohit Gupta has just received a Sony Research Faculty Innovation Award for his work on single-photon imaging. Single-photon sensors are an exciting new sensor technology that have the unique ability to capture individual photons of light with extremely high timing resolution. This extreme sensitivity and time resolution makes single-photon sensors ideal candidates for low-power long-range 3D cameras. …

By Brian Mattmiller, Morgridge Institute for Research Recognizing the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s leadership role in research computing, the National Science Foundation announced this month that the Madison campus will be home to a five-year, $22.5 million initiative to advance high-throughput computing. The Partnership to Advance Throughput Computing (PATh) is driven by the growing need for …

It is with both sadness and happiness that we announce Mark D. Hill’s retirement from UW-Madison and the beginning of a new chapter as Professor Emeritus. We congratulate Mark on a fruitful and successful tenure at UW, having been here for, as he notes, “100000.1two years (32.5ten years).”

The Chancellor’s Undergraduate Awards Ceremony was held online this year and honors include eight Computer Sciences undergraduates. Congratulations to all! You can read the full article here. CS honorees are as follows: Hilldale Undergraduate/Faculty Research Fellowships These fellowship provide students with funds to conduct research projects in collaboration with faculty members.  The award provides $3,000 …