CS majors Fall 2024
811%Percentage of growth in number of Comp Sci undergrads in the last 10 years
$128KAverage starting salary for graduates of the Professional Master’s Program
CS News
Read Issue 01 of WisComputes
WisComputes, a new research newsletter from the Department of Computer Sciences, features stories from a record year of recruiting, rankings, and innovation.
The Security Risks of Generative AI: a CRA blog post by Somesh Jha & colleagues
A recent CRA blog post written by Professor Somesh Jha and colleagues covers a panel discussion on GenAI opportunities and risks at the 2024 CRA Conference at Snowbird.
Professor Bart Miller, the SC Conference, and some of his favorite people: his grad students
An affable, earnest guy, Dr. Barton Miller, the Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor in the Computer Sciences Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW), has made an oversized impact on the SC Conference.
Meet new teaching faculty member Hina Mahmood
She hopes students will come away from her classes with "a robust problem-solving mindset" and with "both the confidence and capability to approach complex problems creatively and tackle them with a lifelong enthusiasm for learning."
Events
- November
- November 6
- November 7
- November 8Machine Learning Lunch MeetingPAL: Sample-Efficient Personalized Reward Learning for Pluralistic Alignment12:30 PM, Online
- November 8CS Theory Seminar: Why Extension-Based Proofs FailFaith Ellen, University of Toronto1:00 PM, 3310 Computer Sciences
- November 11
Good news provided by CS faculty:
(gathered by former Chair Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau)
September 2024:
- Prof Somesh Jha and colleagues won the USENIX Security Test of Time Award for their work on “Privacy in Pharmacogenetics: An End-to-End Case Study of Personalized Warfarin Dosing” (presented at USENIX Security ‘14). [1]
- Prof Aws Albarghouthi gave a talk entitled “Uncertainty and my scientific journey” at the PLDI Mentoring Workshop. [2]
- More info on Prof Bart Miller and Prof Patrick McDaniels’ work on their National Center of Academic Excellence in Cyber Research. [3]
- The CS department made four inaugural alumni awards. Thanks to Prof Suman Banerjee and many others for getting this excellent process up and running! [4]
- Prof Yong Jae Lee was awarded an NSF grant for his proposal “Understanding and Advancing the Generalization Capabilities of Fake Image Detectors”. [5]
- Prof Matt Sinclair gave two talks: “Designing Better Tools for Power- and Sustainability-Aware Co-Design” as an invited talked at ModSim at and “Learning How to Use gem5 to Study Large-Scale Workloads” as an invited tutorial on gem5 at ORNL. [6]
- Prof Bilge Mutlu is part of a new NSF Engineering Research Center around advancing the state of the art in “dexterous robotics”. [7]
- Prof Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau was appointed the special advisor to the Provost on computing. [9]
- We all welcome four new professors to the department: Prof Ali Abedi, Prof Sandeep Silwal, Prof Manolis Vlatakis, and Prof Tengyang Xie. [10]