CS majors Fall 2024
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$128KAverage starting salary for graduates of the Professional Master’s Program
CS News
Celebrating December 2024 Computer Sciences graduates
Hundreds of newly-minted Wisconsin alumni will walk at commencement on Sunday, December 15. We’re introducing a few of our most accomplished graduates.
UW-Madison team does it again, placing first at regional ICPC
For the sixth year in a row, UW-Madison has placed first at the regional round of the International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC).
CS assistant professor Yuhang Zhao developing AI and AR technology to support day-to-day activities of people with low vision
A recent NIH, NEI-funded R01 award will enable Zhao and collaborators to support people with low vision by using AI to empower them in real-life activities.
For Army scholars, an MS in Data Engineering offers advanced training in a high-demand field
Beyond professional development, the MSDE program serves those who serve.
Good news provided by CS faculty:
(gathered by former Chair Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau)
November 2024:
- Prof Patrick McDaniel and colleagues won the ACSAC 2024 Test of Time Award, for their work on “Semantically Rich Application-Centric Security in Android”. [1]
- Prof Dieter van Melkebeek once again led six teams to great success in the regional round of this year’s International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC); they finished in 1st, 4th, 7th, 8th, 10th, and 20th place among nearly one hundred teams in the region. [2]
- Prof Fred Sala and his group had the following four papers accepted at NeurIPS, including one which received the Spotlight designation: “The AlCHEmist: Automated Labeling 500x CHEaper than LLM Data Annotators (Spotlight)”, “OTTER: Effortless Label Distribution Adaptation of Zero-shot Models”, “Stronger Than You Think: Benchmarking Weak Supervision on Realistic Tasks”, and “Pearls from Pebbles: Improved Confidence Functions for Auto-labeling”. [3]
- Prof Sharon Li gave a talk entitled “Steering Large Language Models by Human Preferences” at the UW-Madison Center for the Humanities. [4]
- Prof Bart Miller had an article written about his impact at Supercomputing entitled “Three Chairs and a Research Booth: How One PhD Advisor Shaped the SC Committee”. [5]
- Prof Bart Miller, working with Justin Hines, set up a pioneering engagement between our department and Apple. [6]
- UW students (including the UPL and others) organized MadHacks, an amazing hackathon hosted in our department, now annually. [7]
- Prof Manolis Vlatakis and colleagues had the paper “Contracting with a Learning Agent” accepted into NeurIPS 2024. [8]
- Prof Ming Liu had a PRIME grant on “EFabric” funded by D2P. [9]
- Prof Patrick McDaniel gave a Distinguished Lecture at UIUC entitled “”Adversarial Machine Learning: A 10-year Perspective”. [10]
- Prof Matt Sinclair gave an invited keynote at CAMS entitled “Reducing the GAP: Improving the Fidelity and Scalability of gem5’s GPU Models”. [11]
- Prof Rishab Goyal had two publications at the upcoming Asiacrypt: “Non-interactive Blind Signatures: Post-quantum and Stronger Security” and “Leakage-Resilient Incompressible Cryptography: Constructions and Barriers”. [12]