UW-Madison Computer Sciences Department welcomes Jelena Diakonikolas, assistant professor in optimization and machine learning

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Jelena Diakonikolas joins the UW–Madison Department of Computer Sciences from a postdoctoral position at UC Berkeley’s TRIPODS Institute for Foundations of Data Analysis. Diakonikolas works on optimization theory, specifically “the theory and design of optimization algorithms for large-scale problems.” Of her first visit to Madison when she interviewed here, she says she  “almost could not …

Olvi Mangasarian, Emeritus Professor and pioneer in mathematical programming, passed away March 15

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We are sad to report that Olvi L. Mangasarian, the John von Neumann Professor Emeritus of Mathematics and Computer Sciences at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, passed away on March 15 from complications from a fall and subsequent stroke. He was a pioneer, a leader, and an icon in the field of mathematical programming. With more …

Amanda Robinson, Computer Sciences & Spanish

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Year in school (and/or when you expect to graduate): Senior, expected graduation May 2020 Hometown: Oregon, WI Why are you pursuing degrees in both of your areas? I am pursuing both because I am passionate about them both, and with the credits I had, I knew it was feasible to do both and graduate in …

Ph.D Student Yannis Chronis Wins 2020 Facebook Fellowship Award

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By John Mak UW–Madison Computer Sciences Ph.D student Yannis Chronis has been awarded a 2020 Facebook Fellowship for his work in structured data stores. Every year, the Facebook Fellowship program awards Ph.D candidates conducting research in important topics across computer science and engineering. Chronis is one of only 36 people selected from 1,876 applications worldwide. As part of his award, Chronis …

Welcome Weekend for Prospective Grad Students Feb. 28-29

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Prospective grad students who have been offered admission to the program will learn about faculty research, meet with professors, socialize with current grad students and experience the beautiful UW–Madison campus. Read all about the weekend and access the schedule here. 

HTCondor: Paving the Way to the Future

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By John Mak Before 1988, a study involving tens of thousands of pieces of data would have been a scientist’s life’s work. Years spent meticulously measuring, tabulating, and hypothesizing would mean that only the most groundbreaking hypotheses could afford to be researched. Then, in 1988, UW–Madison revealed and launched Condor. Condor (now HTCondor) is a …

Graduate Student Jinwoo Kim Wins POPL Student Research Competition

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By John Mak Jinwoo Kim, a graduate student in programming languages in the Department of Computer Sciences at UW–Madison, has won the 2020 Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages (POPL) Student Research Competition (SRC) with his paper entitled, “Proving Unrealizability for Imperative Syntax-Guided Synthesis Problems”. Along with an award, Kim also won $500 and a …

Computer Sciences Professor Shuchi Chawla wins 2020 Distinguished Teaching Award

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Professor Shuchi Chawla of the Computer Sciences Department has won the 2020 Chancellor’s Teaching Innovation Award, one of this year’s Distinguished Teaching Awards. “This award recognizes the hard work numerous peer mentors and TAs have put in towards mentoring and helping students in CS 577 [Introduction to Algorithms] over the last few years, making the …

CS Department welcomes Xiangyao Yu, Assistant Professor in Database Systems and Computer Architecture

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Xiangyao Yu comes to the Department of Computer Sciences at UW–Madison from his position as Visiting Researcher at Google Madison. Previously he was a post-doctoral associate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). His research interests are in both databases systems and computer architecture, and he says that “enabling faster and more efficient database systems …

CS professor Justin Hsu wins Distinguished Paper Award at POPL 2020

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Assistant Professor Justin Hsu and his coauthors have been awarded a distinguished paper award at POPL 2020 (ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on the Principles of Programming Languages). Hsu’s coauthors are Steffen Smolka (Cornell University), Nate Foster (Cornell University),  Tobias Kappé (University College London), Dexter Kozen (Cornell University), and Alexandra Silva (University College London).  Hsu’s paper is …