College of Computing & Artificial Intelligence
Year in school: I am a junior expecting to graduate in the spring of 2021 Hometown: Oak Park, Illinois Why are you pursuing degrees in these areas? I have enjoyed studying computers and languages since late high school, and I felt like I understood both subjects well, so I decided to continue studying them in …
Year in school (and/or when you expect to graduate): Junior, Graduating Spring 2021 Hometown: Appleton, WI (Kimberly High School) Why are you pursuing degrees in both of your areas? Why did you add the second one (if you did)? I chose to pursue both degrees because I couldn’t picture my future without either degree in …
Year in school (and/or when you expect to graduate): Graduated Dec. 2019 Hometown: Owen, WI Why did you pursue degrees in both of your areas? Why did you add the second one (if you did)? They were both areas that I enjoyed and I didn’t feel that I had enough knowledge about either of them …
Sharon Li has been named to Forbes 30 under 30-Science for her work in deep learning, specifically applied to image recognition problems. (Visit Sharon’s complete Forbes profile.) She is excited about the prospect of joining the UW–Madison Computer Sciences department in the fall of 2020, after completing her postdoc at Stanford University. Forbes honorees are …
Ilias Diakonikolas comes to the Department of Computer Sciences at UW–Madison from the University of Southern California and the University of Edinburgh. His research areas are algorithms and the foundations of machine learning, and some of his recently developed algorithms have been applied in discovering patterns in biological datasets and creating defenses against data poisoning …
By John Mak On the 30th of October, three researchers in the UW–Madison Department of Computer Sciences – Anant Gupta, Atul Ingle, and Mohit Gupta – won the Marr Prize – honorable mention at the International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) for their work on single-photon 3D imaging. The Marr Prize, given biennially to the …
Ilias Diakonikolas and Christos Tzamos, two UW–Madison Computer Sciences professors, have earned the outstanding paper award at NeurIPS 2019, the Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems. NeurIPS is one of the most prestigious conferences on artificial intelligence (AI) in the academic arena. This year the conference received 6743 submissions, of which 1428 were accepted. The …
By John Mak Earlier this year, the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) released their completed Artificial Intelligence Roadmap, A 20-Year Community Roadmap for AI Research in the US. The roadmap mainly focuses on identifying challenges, opportunities, and pitfalls in the AI landscape to inform future decisions, policies, and investments in the area. The roadmap was a …
By John Mak On the ninth of November, the regional round of the International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC, formerly known as the ACM programming competition) was held on the Epic campus. Of 180 teams in the North-Central North America (NCNA) region, nineteen competed at Epic, including six teams from UW–Madison. Our teams emerged victorious, securing …
Women technologists of the world, unite! Eighteen UW–Madison Computer Sciences Department students attended the 2019 Grace Hopper Celebration (GHC), the largest gathering of women technologists in the world, in early October in Orlando, FL. In 2018 over 20,000 attended from 78 countries – in 2019 that number was closer to 25,000. At the event, the …