Mary Vernon honored for fundamental contributions to analytic system design with the 2019 ACM SIGMETRICS Achievement Award

Madison, WI, July 1, 2019 – ACM SIGMETRICS announced the selection of Prof. Mary Vernon of University of Wisconsin–Madison as the recipient of the 2019 ACM SIGMETRICS Achievement Award in recognition of her fundamental contributions to analytic performance modeling techniques and to analytic design of a wide range of impactful computer and communication system architectures. …

CS grad student Viswesh Periyasamy (now alum! MS ’19) presents GLBIO poster on degenerative eye disease

Viswesh Periyasamy presented a poster in May at the Great Lakes Bioinformatics Consortium 2019 Conference (GLBIO) on the topic of gene regulatory network inference. This is a method to recover the interactions and relationships between genes. His research goal, in his own words, “is to better understand how gene mutations responsible for degenerative eye disease …

Paul Barford named Distinguished Alumnus by Boston University

CS professor Paul Barford was named Distinguished Alumnus by Boston University, where he earned his PhD, at their graduation ceremony this spring (2019). He also had the honor of giving the commencement speech, which can be found here:

Graduate students in their first three years connect with mentors and build community at CRA-W Grad Cohort Workshop

Two UW–Madison Computer Sciences graduate students, Suchita Pati and Swati Anand, had the honor of attending the 2019 Computer Research Association-Women Grad Cohort Workshop. The goal of the program is to build and mentor communities of women in the first three years of graduate study. At the workshop, current grad students are connected with senior …

One Of World’s Leading Memory Systems Researchers Receives Top Computer Architecture Award

Mark D. Hill Recognized for Seminal Contributions with Eckert-Mauchly Award Madison, WI, June 5, 2019 – ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, and IEEE Computer Society have announced that Mark D. Hill, a professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, is the recipient of the 2019 Eckert-Mauchly Award. Hill was cited for contributions to the design …

UW Changes Lives: gALPHA+CS fosters a new generation of entrepreneurs at UW-Madison

By Maeve Ryan Adithya ‘Adi’ Murali came to UW–Madison as a computer science major. While he knew he had an entrepreneurial spirit, he didn’t know how to channel it. Luckily, a new program at UW–Madison, gALPHA+CS, allowed him to do just that: “I did want to try entrepreneurship and get my feet wet; I just …

Students, faculty and staff honored at annual awards lunch

On April 29, the Department of Computer Sciences held its annual Computer Sciences Majors and Awards Lunch in the Symphony Room at the Gordon Dining and Events Center.  Awards were presented in the following categories: Undergraduate Awards Programming Competitions Best Paper Awards External Graduate Fellowships External Grad Student Awards UW Awards Industry Research Awards UW …

Roz Stengle is exploring blockchain at UW-Madison

By Maeve Ryan Roz Stengle is a junior at UW–Madison majoring in computer science and economics. She was born and raised in Princeton, New Jersey and decided to come to UW due in part to the university’s size: “My high school is really tiny, so it’s nice to be somewhere that operates like a whole …

What they learned: Four UW entrepreneurs, including CS professor Jignesh Patel, focus on the big question

As UW–Madison continues to gain recognition for fueling Wisconsin’s high-tech economy, four experienced entrepreneurs with UW roots shared the cardinal lessons they learned.  

HTCondor Week 2019 starts May 20 with events open to the public

HTCondor Week is an annual event for people from academia, industry, and government who utilize the Center for High Throughput Computing resources to enhance their research. Over 100 people from around the globe attend, as well as faculty, staff, and grad students from UW–Madison. The public is invited to attend two lectures on Tuesday, May …