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
Bilge Mutlu and co-authors receive Best Paper Award at HRI 2025
"ImageInThat: Manipulating Images to Convey User Instructions to Robots" wins Best Paper Award at the 20th edition of the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction.
Guri Sohi receives 2025 IEEE CS Computer Pioneer Award in Honor of the Women of ENIAC
A legacy of innovation: Professor Gurindar Sohi wins prestigious Computer Pioneer Award
Teaching Professor Jim Williams: “Together, we’ll shape the future of computer science education”
In addition to his novel teaching methods that help the department handle its record popularity and class sizes, newly appointed Teaching Professor Jim Williams provides an unrivaled education to students of all skill levels.
CS students head to DC’s Capitol Hill to present on AI safety
Members of the Wisconsin AI Safety Initiative visited the Rayburn House Office Building to lead presentations and live demos highlighting the dangers associated with artificial intelligence’s growing popularity.
Events
- April
- April 3Talk: Building Novel Abstractions for a Declarative CloudTianyu Li: PhD Candidate, MIT12:00 PM, 1240 Computer Sciences
- April 3
- April 3MadSystems SeminarAccelerating Content-Defined Chunking for Data Deduplication4:30 PM, Online
Also offered online - April 4
- April 4AI Safety and Theoretical Computer ScienceScott Aaronson (University of Texas at Austin)11:00 AM, 1240 Computer Sciences
Good news provided by CS faculty:
(gathered by former Chair Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau)
February 2025:
- Prof Jerry Zhu was named a Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor. [1]
- Prof Jelena Diakonikolas received her NSF CAREER award. [2]
- Prof Paul Barford won the Chancellor’s Teaching Innovation Award. [3]
- Prof Patrick McDaniel gave a Distinguished Seminar at Iowa State entitled “Adversarial Machine Learning: A 10-year Perspective.” [4]
- Prof Miron Livny gave a talk entitled “PATh – Partnership to Advance Throughput Computing”. [5]
- Former Prof Jim Larus’s student, Dr.Satish Chandra, was named an ACM Fellow. See details below about the history of PL alums being recognized as ACM Fellows – there are at least two others! – below. [6]
- Prof Mike Swift and former Prof Mark Hill’s student, Dr. Arka Basu, won the ACM India ECR Award for 2024. [7]
- Prof Bilge Mutlu had three papers accepted at CHI this year, each led by UW students. [8]
- Prof Matt Sinclair had the paper “GOLDYLOC: Global Optimizations & Lightweight Dynamic Logic for Concurrency” accepted into ACM TACO. [9]
- Prof Matt Sinclair gave a talk entitled “Designing Hardware to Meet the Demands of Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence” and participated on a panel at the Wisconsin Energy Institute. [10]
- Congratulations to Prof Andrea Arpaci-Dusseau (2x), Prof Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau (2x), Prof Steve Wright (and former Prof Theo Rekatsinas), Prof Yingyu Liang, and affiliated faculty Prof Kassem Fawaz and Prof Yu Hen Hu for their work in advising the students listed below to completion of their PhDs. [11]
- Congratulations to Prof Shivaram Venkataraman, Prof Matt Sinclair, Prof Patrick McDaniel (2x), Prof Xiangyao Yu, Prof Rishab Goyal, Prof Rahul Chatterjee (2x), Prof Yong Jae Lee, Prof Tom Reps, Prof Mohit Gupta, Prof Aws Albarghouthi, Prof Michael Gleicher, Prof Xiangyao Yu, and Prof Fred Sala and affiliated faculty Prof Kevin Ponto, Prof Junjie Hu (3x), and Prof Sushmita Roy for their work in advising the students listed below to completion of their Master’s Theses or Projects. [12]
- Prof Akarsh Prabhakara had the paper “Shape-programming Robotic Reflectors for Wireless Networks” accepted into ICRA. [13]
- Prof Fred Sala had papers accepted into ICLR (“Weak-to-Strong Generalization Through the Data-Centric Lens”) and NAACL (“Personalize Your LLM: Fake It Then Align It”). [14]