CS majors Fall 2023
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
Professor Swamit Tannu receives 2024 NSF CAREER Award
“The technical challenges and the potential to make a big, lasting impact—those are the two things that drove me towards quantum computing,” says Tannu.
PhD student Nikos Zarifis earns 2024 Ivanisevic Award
PhD candidate Nikos Zarifis, the 2024 recipient of the Invanisevic Award, came to UW-Madison because it is “one of the top schools in the country,” he says, and he specifically wanted “to be a part …
Jelena & Ilias Diakonikolas: Faculty couples and how they balance personal & professional bliss
Mutual respect — and a deeply shared love of computer science research — are two of the things that connect Jelena and Ilias Diakonikolas. He is the Sheldon B. Lubar Professor of Computer Sciences, and …
CS Professor Xiangyao Yu named 2024 Sloan Research Fellow
Two UW–Madison researchers receive prestigious Sloan Fellowships
Events
- April
- April 24Artificial Intelligence as a Second Industrial RevolutionSeattle Tech Event6:00 PM, Microsoft Building 7, 15675 NE 36th St., Redmond, WA
- April 25Talk: Causal Inference for Robust, Reliable, and Responsible NLPZhijing Jin: Ph.D, Max Planck Institute & ETH12:00 PM, 1240 Computer Sciences
- April 25Machine Learning Lunch MeetingBalancing personalization and pooling: Decision-making and statistical inference with limited time horizons1:00 PM, 1125 DeLuca Biochemistry Building
- April 25
- April 26MadS&P Weekly Seminar - Guest Talk from Jaron Mink Guest Talk from Jaron Mink: Human Factors in Secure and Non-Abusive AI11:00 AM, 3310 Computer Sciences
Good news provided by CS faculty:
(gathered by former Chair Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau)
April 1, 2024:
- Prof Loris D’Antoni’s student, Shaan Nagy, won an NSF Graduate Student Research Fellowship. [1]
- Prof Josiah Hanna published “Scaling Offline Evaluation of Reinforcement Learning Agents through Abstraction” in AAAI. [2]
- Prof Christos Tzamos published “Contextual Pandora’s Box” in AAAI. [3]
- Prof Jerry Zhu published “Exact Policy Recovery in Offline RL with Both Heavy-Tailed Rewards and Data Corruption” in AAAI. [4]
- Prof Jerry Zhu published “Optimal Attack and Defense for Reinforcement Learning” in AAAI. [5]
- Prof Jerry Zhu published “Data Poisoning to Fake a Nash Equilibria for Markov Games” in AAAI. [6]