This fall, the Department of Computer Sciences continues its growth with a record-breaking number of incoming graduate students. With this large student body, it becomes increasingly important to build an active community that involves graduate students, undergraduates, faculty, and staff. In order to address this ever-growing need, the student chapter of the Association for Computing …

Earlence Fernandes joins the UW–Madison Department of Computer Sciences from his position as a Research Associate at the University of Washington. Fernandes works on computer security for emerging technologies such as smartphones, smart homes, and cyber-physical systems. He strives to address security issues before systems are “designed and deployed widely.” According to Fernandes, “Everyone deserves …

Rahul Chatterjee joins the UW–Madison Department of Computer Sciences from Cornell University, where he completed his PhD. He completed his MS here at UW–Madison and earned a Bachelor of Technology degree from the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur. He works in the field of computer security and focuses on user authentication systems. Chatterjee encourages his …

Madison, WI – Trusted CI, the NSF Cybersecurity Center of Excellence, has been awarded a $12.5 million renewal grant by the National Science Foundation, which will allow the center to operate through 2024. Barton Miller, Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor in the Department of Computer Sciences at University of Wisconsin–Madison, is on the team led by …

By Maeve Ryan Rural Wisconsin students who attend UW–Madison, who major in computer sciences now have a scholarship option created just for them. Following the Wisconsin Idea, which holds that the UW’s influence should reach every corner of Wisconsin, Phil and Kit Blake established Wisconsin Idea Scholarship for Computer Sciences in 2017. Scholarship recipients are expected to …

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has named Jerry Zhu to the Information Science and Technology (ISAT) Study Group for a three-year term beginning this summer. The group brings 30 of the brightest scientists and engineers together to identify new areas of development in computer and communication technologies and to recommend future research directions. The ISAT …

Computer Sciences assistant professor Mohit Gupta and Biostatistics & Medical Informatics assistant professor Andreas Velten have been selected as finalists in the 2019 AutoSens Award Competition in the “Most Influential Research Category.” Their research is on designing novel, high-performance 3D time-of-flight (ToF) cameras that can recover the 3D structure of surroundings, for example, for cameras …

Computer Sciences PhD student Samuel Drews is the first recipient of a new award for dissertators: the Ivanisevic Award. This award was created by Dr Igor Ivanisevic (CS MS ’98; PhD 2000) and Dr Albena Ivanisevic (PhD, Chemistry, 2000). As UW–Madison alumni from two different departments, they decided to split the award between the two, …

Hulking robots common to assembly line manufacturing tend to be loners. They often cut, bend and weld metal inside cages and behind barriers meant to safely separate them from human workers. “For a long time, the best factory robot has been one that you set up, and you don’t touch for two years. It does …