Home to the nation's
#13
graduate &
#16
undergrad programs. 📍 School of Computer, Data, and Information Sciences (CDIS) at UW-Madison. 🎈 Celebrating 60 years!
Professor Tom Reps retires after 39 years of research and mentorship.
Dubbed "the soul of the department" by colleagues, his parting gift is a new professorship honoring late wife (and CS Professor Emerita) Susan B. Horwitz.
Get the full story:
Congratulations to Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau, Andrea Arpaci-Dusseau, and Suman Banerjee for being named 2020
@TheOfficialACM
Fellows!
@uwcdis
@uwmadisonls
Read the full list of 2020 fellows here:
BREAKING:
@UWMadison
jumps SIX(!) spots to become the
#16
CS undergrad program in the nation (3-way tie).
📈 Biggest jump in the top 25
📈 Ranked
#9
among public universities
📈
#8
in computer systems;
#9
in programming languages;
#17
in cybersecurity;
#25
in AI
Via
@usnews
Congratulations to associate prof Aws Albarghouthi for winning the Class of 1955 Teaching Excellence Award! The award was created to honor professors who have had a prominent impact on undergraduate students and their education.
@uwcdis
Read more here:
Huge congratulations to CS prof Earlence Fernandes for being awarded the National Science Foundation CAREER Award! Fernandes was awarded for his research on Security and Privacy Foundations of Internet-Scale User-Centered Automation.
@uwcdis
Read more:
Congrats to CS prof Stephen Wright for being awarded the Hilldale Award for his contributions to teaching, research and service! Wright is dedicated to the development and teaching of the complex computer algorithms that underlie much of modern society.
Although our Class of 2020 won’t have a typical graduation this spring, we want to make the most of it!
@WisAlumni
has created some virtual backgrounds to help make commencement a little more "Wisconsin."
Congratulations to the Class of 2020!
#UWCS2020
The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) has elected CS faculty members Mark D. Hill, Somesh Jha, and Jignesh Patel as lifetime AAAS fellows! Congratulations to all!
@uwcdis
Read more:
In 1965, 51-year-old Sister Mary Kenneth Keller became the nation’s first woman to earn a PhD in computer sciences — and she did so right here at
@UWMadison
.
From
@OnWisMag
:
Congrats to Professor
@rhlchatterjee
, who recently received an
@nsfgov
CAREER Award.
Building upon his work with
@DAISofDaneCo
, Chatterjee’s proposal asks a startling question: What if everything we "know" about system security no longer applies?
More:
Not only has Professor Miron Livny been awarded the
@IEEEorg
Award for Outstanding Technical Achievement, but he has also now been awarded an IEEE TDCP ICDCS High Impact Paper Award! Congratulations!
@Morgridge_Inst
@DiscoveryBldg
@UWMadisonLS
Congratulations to CS professor Aditya Akella for being chosen as a 2020 Finalist for the Blavatnik National Awards for Young Scientists!
@BlavatnikAwards
@UWMadisonLS
Read about it here: and here:
Huge congratulations to CS Assistant Professor Loris D’Antoni on earning the 2020
@MSFTResearch
Faculty Fellowship! Professor D’Antoni was selected as 1 of 5 recipients from hundreds of nominations. Keep up the great research!
#MSFellow
@UWMadisonLS
Congratulations to CS Professor Shuchi Chawla on winning the 2020 Chancellor’s Teaching Innovation Award! Show your support at the
@PyleCenter
on April 7th when Chancellor Rebecca Blank presents all of the 2020 Distinguished Teaching Awards!
@UWMadisonLS
Huge congratulations to CS prof Suman Banerjee, who has been chosen as an IEEE Fellow! Banerjee was chosen for his “development of tools to improve performance and usability of wireless systems.”
@IEEEorg
@uwcdis
Read more here:
Congratulations to professor Stephen Wright (
@madsjw
) and collaborators who were honored with the
@NeurIPSConf
Test of Time Award for their paper "Hogwild!" on asynchronous stochastic gradient!
@uwcdis
@datascience_uw
Hogwild! NeurIPS test-of-time award talk.
This was a super fun project, and I'm happy anyone else enjoyed it. Thank you,
@NeurIPSConf
!
All credit to Feng Niu,
@beenwrekt
,
@madsjw
.
Congrats to CS Professor Shuchi Chawla on earning the 2020 Chancellor’s Teaching Innovation Award! She teaches Introduction to Algorithms, and has “restructured the pace of the course, held frequent office hours, and brought in peer mentors.”
@UWMadisonLS
Congrats to
@TannuSwamit
, who recently received the
@NSF
CAREER Award for his proposal in quantum software and systems architectures! He credits students and faculty support from
@awsTO
,
@lorisdanto
, and Karu Sankaralingam as essential to the achievement.
Did you know Judith Faulkner, CEO of Epic, graduated from UW-Madison CS in '67 for her Masters and '10 for her Doctor of Science?
@WisAlumni
@UWMadisonLS
This semester we’re welcoming Assistant Professor Frederic Sala! Sala joins our department after completing his PhD in electrical engineering at
@UCLA
and his postdoctoral studies at
@Stanford
.
@UWMadisonLS
@uwcdis
Learn more about him here:
Congratulations to Sophie Bohr & Sofia Kahn, two CS graduates and best friends since high school! They started with taking AP classes together, & now are heading to
@Google
&
@Expedia
after graduation. Congrats, and good luck out there!
@uwcdis
@UWMadisonLS
@sophiebohr
#UWCS2021
When you see Prof. Guri Sohi around, congratulate him on being elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences - what an honor!
@americanacad
#uwmadison
CS Professor Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau, along with five other UW-Madison faculty members, was honored as a 2023 American Association for the Advancement of Science fellow. Read about it in the UW-Madison story below!
Congratulations to CS Professor Justin Hsu on being awarded a distinguished paper award at POPL 2020! His paper, entitled “Guarded Kleene Algebra with Tests” details how KAT shows the equivalence of two programs. Outstanding work!
@UWMadisonLS
@sigplan
Congratulations to assistant professor Yingyu Liang on being awarded the National Science Foundation’s Career Award! This
@NSF
award is for “better understanding, robustness, and efficiency of deep learning.”
@uwcdis
@UWMadisonLS
Read more here:
Congratulations to CS professors Loris D’Antoni and Aws Albarghouthi, who have been awarded a cluster hire! Entitled “Ethics in Computing, Data, and Information,” it is “intended to help address ethical issues in AI, data, and information systems.”
Congratulations to UW CS Alum Colin Huang for becoming China’s second-richest man, according to
@Forbes
Real-Time Billionaire Index! Huang is the founder of
@PinduoduoInc
, the largest e-commerce platform in China. We are so proud of all your success!
Welcome Yuhang Zhao to our department as a Human-Computer Interaction assistant professor! Zhao comes to UW after earning her PhD in Information Science at
@Cornell
. Her research includes accessibility, ARVR, and more.
@UWMadisonLS
@uwcdis
Learn more:
Congrats to recent Computer Sciences PhD graduate Ankit Pensia, who was awarded the Goldstine Postdoctoral Fellowship, giving him freedom to conduct postdoctoral research of his choice in one of the IBM Research laboratories!
So excited to announce that
@UWMadison
was chosen to receive a grant from
@KhouryCollege
's Center for Inclusive Computing to increase the number of women graduating with bachelor’s degrees in CS!
@wacm_uw
@uwcdis
Read more about the initiatives here:
Welcome new CS faculty member Christos Tzamos when you see him around the department! Christos Tzamos Comes to UW-Madison Researching Algorithms and Machine Learning Theory
@UWMadisonLS
#WisconsinCS
Many congratulations to Profs. Diakonikolas and Tzamos for being awarded the prestigious
@NeurIPSConf
Outstanding Paper Award yesterday! Revolutionary? Check. Insightful? Check. Creative? Elegant? Enduring? Triple check!
@UWMadisonLS
@UWMadison
Welcome to new faculty member Yea-Seul Kim! Kim is an assistant professor with research focused on human-computer interaction, visualization, and data science. Welcome to Madison, we're so glad to have you!
Get to know her here:
@UWMadisonLS
@uwcdis
The Computer Sciences major rose five spots from 17 to 12 (the biggest increase in the rankings!!) in the 2023-24 US News rankings for computer science graduate programs!
@UWMadisonLS
@UWMadison
@uwcdis
Congratulations to CS prof Somesh Jha on receiving a Distinguished Alumni Award from the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (
@iitdelhi
)! The award is presented to alumni who have made important contributions in science and technology.
@uwcdis
Read more:
If you haven't heard, our very own Matt Amodio (MS '17) has set the second longest winning streak on the game show Jeopardy! Congratulations, Matt!
@UWMadisonLS
@uwcdis
@WisAlumni
@UWMadison
Read about it here:
Four CS faculty —
@SharonYixuanLi
, Xiaojin (Jerry) Zhu, Mohit Gupta, and
@TannuSwamit
— were distinguished through UW-Madison's annual Research Forward initiative. CS faculty members are involved in three of the nine projects chosen for Round 4 funding.
Women technologists, unite! 18 UW-Madison CS students attended the 2019 Grace Hopper Celebration, & junior Emilie Rajka "left feeling so proud to be a woman in computer science.” 'Til next year!
@ghc
@wacm_uwm
@UWMadisonLS
"What does it mean to have a real impact for your research? It's when it . . . makes it into the hands of people where they can actually use it in direct ways," says CS prof Jignesh Patel. "How did you do that?" podcast
@WUWMradio
@UWMadisonLS
@datachatAI
Congrats to incoming faculty member Ming Liu on being awarded a SIGCOMM Doctoral Dissertation Award honorable mention! This mention was for Outstanding PhD Thesis in Computer Networking and Data Communication from
@TheOfficialACM
Data Communications.
Welcome new faculty member Swamit Tannu! Tannu is joining our department as an assistant professor after completing his PhD at
@GeorgiaTech
. He specializes in computer architecture and quantum computing.
@UWMadisonLS
@uwcdis
Learn more about him here:
Projects headed by UW-Madison CS professors Josiah Hanna, Yong Jae Lee, and Fred Sala were among those selected for funding by sponsored research partnership between UW–Madison Data Science Institute (DSI) and
@amfam
!
@datascience_uw
@uwcdis
@UWMadisonLS
Somehow, the new
@uwcdis
building is even bigger on the inside.
Current construction looks like 1,700 hours of labor *per day,* with nearly 200,000 total manhours to date.
Just about a year to go.
Congratulations to CS Department Chair Steve Wright, just awarded the prestigious George B. Dantzig Prize by
@math_opt
and
@TheSIAMNews
at
#ISMP2024
.
“It’s an honor just to be a member of the optimization community," says
@madsjw
.
Get the full story:
Congratulations to Prof. Tom Reps, who recently earned the prestigious CAV Award (
@confCAV
) for a "simple and powerful" idea: the verification of concurrent programs through context-bounded analysis. Tom joins Prof.
@jhasomesh
, a 2015 CAV recipient.
What — or who — makes AI safe? Professor (and MIT
@techreview
Innovator of the Year)
@SharonYixuanLi
presented on the subject at December's
@TedX
@UWMadison
event.
Watch Li discuss assessing uncertainty in artificial intelligence predictions here:
Huge congratulations to CS Ph.D. student Yannis Chronis for winning a 2020
@fb_research
Fellowship for his work in structured data stores! Chronis' current work focuses on optimization and efficient query processing. Keep up the good research!
@UWMadGSEd
#Welcome
new assistant professor Jelena Diakonikolas to the CS Department! Jelena's primary focus is on the theory and design of optimization algorithms for large-scale problems. Welcome to the
@UWMadison
team, we’re excited to have you!
@UWMadisonLS
Building better human-bot cybersecurity teams: UW-Madison led team wins prestigious US Department of Defense MURI grant! Congratulations to CS professor and principal investigator
@jhasomesh
on this award!
@uwcdis
@UWMadisonLS
@DoDCTO
@CMUEngineering
Congratulations to PhD student Amy Koike (
@AmyInMadison21
) and Professors Bilge Mutlu (CS) and Michael Wehner (
@UWMechEngr
)!
Their paper “Sprout: Designing Expressivity for Robots Using Fiber-Embedded Actuator” took home Best Paper: Design at the 2024
@HRI_Conference
.
Welcome new faculty member Earlence Fernandes when you see him around! He wants to "anticipate the security issues of emerging technologies": "Everyone deserves to be secure [in our] increasingly computerized world.”
@UWMadisonLS
@EarlenceF
#WisconsinCS
For the first time,
@UWMadison
won silver at the International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) World Finals.
Coached by CS Professor Dieter van Melkebeek, the team holds the North American record of advancing to 21 finals in a row:
Congrats to CS prof Michael Ferris who is being recognized at the 2019 SIAM Conference on Computational Science and Engineering (CSE19)! Livestream his talk "Modelling 100 Percent Renewable Electricity" Mon, 2/25, at 8:30am PT
@TheSIAMNews
@WIDiscovery
CS professors Jelena Diakonikolas & Shivaram Venkataraman have been awarded a grant from
@Google
to provide research opportunities to underrepresented students! Workshops will happen during Spring and Summer 2021 semesters.
@wacm_uw
@uwcdis
@uw_diversity
Finally! Too many myths and misconceptions have surrounded Sister Mary Kenneth Keller, the first CS PhD in the country who earned her degree from
@WisconsinCS
. Dianne O'Leary & Jennifer Head's exhaustive research sets the record straight:
Welcome to new faculty member
@SharonYixuanLi
! Li is an assistant professor in deep learning and artificial intelligence. Born in a Chinese city famous for its beef noodles, she was surprised to find a restaurant in Madison offering the same kind!
@uwcdis
ColorStack is a national organization aiming to increase attraction, retention and success of Black, Latinx and Native American CS majors. Carla Rose decided to start a chapter here at UW-Madison.
Read more here:
Congrats to Prof Jelena Diakonikolas, a 2023
@AFOSR
/
@AFResearchLab
Young Investigator and recipient of a 3-year grant up to $450k! By partnering with research institutions like
@UWMadison
, the YIP program promotes creative research from exceptional early career scientists.
For FY24, AFRL/AFOSR recognized 48 scientists and engineers for showing exceptional ability and promise for conducting basic research of military importance through the
#AFOSRYIP
. To view the complete list of the award-winning proposals, visit
#Grants
Congratulations to CS grad student Jordan Henkel for being chosen as one of only ten 2021
@Microsoft
Research Fellows!
@uwcdis
@UWMadisonLS
@MSFTResearch
Click here to read more about Henkel and this award:
Congratulations to CS professors Suman Banerjee and Mohit Gupta for being awarded research funding as part of the
#MLWiNS
program! Their group is entitled “Distributed Learning for the Nomadic Edge.”
@intel
@NSF
Read more about it here:
Calling all Seattle CS Badgers!
On April 24, join us,
@uwcdis
, and guest speaker
@dcburger
(
@MSFTResearch
) for an evening of connection and conversation about AI as a second industrial revolution.
RSVP required:
Patrick Hanrahan and Edwin Catmull will receive the 2019
#ACMTuringAward
for fundamental contributions to 3-D computer graphics, and the revolutionary impact of these techniques on computer-generated imagery (CGI) in filmmaking and other applications.
Welcome, Assistant Professor Xiangyao Yu to the CS Department! Coming from
@Tsinghua_Uni
in Beijing and
@MIT
, Yu’s research interests include both database systems and computer architecture. Welcome to
@UWMadison
Professor Yu, we’re glad to have you!
Congrats to CS's own Jignesh Patel! With the College of Engineering's Kevin Eliceiri and Jane Li, he's rethinking how to build the next generation of computing thanks to a grant from the SRC:
@pateljm
@UWMadisonLS
@UWMadEngr
@uwcdis
has announced a $175 million private investment to help establish “a new beacon for high tech in Wisconsin housed in a state-of-the-art facility in the center of campus.” Construction is scheduled to begin in 2023!
@UWMadison
Read more here:
Computer Sciences is excited to welcome Assistant Professor Rishab Goyal, specializing in cryptography and computer security! Check out a short Q&A here:
@uwcdis
@UWMadisonLS
For the 19th year in a row - 19! - UW-Madison teams advance to the world finals of the International Collegiate Programming Contest (formerly ACM). Well done!
@UWMadisonLS
@ICPCNews
Congratulate CS PhD candidate Aishwarya Ganesan when you see her on her 2019 Facebook Fellowship! If you've already congratulated her, congratulate her again! (Well done,
@AishwaryaGanlat
!)
@UWMadGSEd
.
@WHOSTP
Dir. Prabhakar met with researchers & leaders from the Asian American Scholars Forum to discuss the value of diversity in our nation's science & technology ecosystem, and the work to ensure America remains a world leader in research and innovation.
Meet new CS faculty member Rahul Chatterjee!
@rhlchatterjee
returns to UW from
@Cornell
, focusing on computer security & user authentication systems - he's trying to make login systems easier & more secure. Research on, Rahul!
@UWMadisonLS
#WeAreLS
Congratulations to Professor Ilias Diakonikolas, who was recently awarded the H.I. Romnes Faculty Fellowship from the OVCR.
Diakonikolas is also affiliated with
@UWMadisonSTATS
,
@WIDiscovery
, and
@datascience_uw
.
More about the award here:
The Wisconsin Computing Idea is finally on its way! The CS working group has recommended that UW-Madison form a school of computing (name tbd) within L&S and even bigger things to come . . . stay tuned!
@UWMadison
@UWMadisonLS
#WICompIdea
Professor Barton Miller developed
#FuzzTesting
, a now widely used method of finding bugs in software that would make the software crash. Read about the many difficulties Miller experienced trying to get this method recognized:
@UWiscResearch
@UWMadisonLS
CS PhD student Samuel Drews receives first Ivanisevic Award - congrats, Samuel! Read about Drews's work on programming languages & the Ivanisevics' motivation for creating the award:
@UWMadGSEd
@UWMadisonLS
@UWMadisonChem
#WisconsinCS