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
How alumnus Brent Seales is unsealing ancient mysteries (via On Wisconsin)
Brent Seales MS’88, PhD’91 may rewrite history with a technology that can read ancient scrolls buried for 2,000 years.
IndyNXT rookie Yuven Sundaramoorthy ’23 is the fastest Badger in Wisconsin
After “a big learning year,” rookie Yuven Sundaramoorthy ’23 — a UW–Madison computer sciences graduate and now a professional race-car driver — says he’s “picking up speed.”
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.
Brent Seales MS’88, PhD’91 receives the Distinguished Achievement Award
Now a professor of computer science at the University of Kentucky and the pioneer behind “virtual unwrapping,” Seales uses technology of the future to preserve texts of the past.
Events
- November
- November 20Statistics Seminar Graph-regularized topic modeling: Extending pLSI with document similarity by Claire Donnat4:00 PM, 133 Service Memorial Institute
- November 20CS PHD PANEL: Doing research and finding PHD advisorFirst and Second Year CS PHD info session4:30 PM, 1240 Computer Sciences
- November 21A Fireside Chat with American Family Insurance, Data Science TeamAmFam is coming to campus!7:00 PM, 1240 Computer Sciences
- November 22Machine Learning Lunch MeetingAI Security in the Era of Large Language Models and Agents12:30 PM, 1221 Computer Sciences
- November 22CS Theory Seminar: Price of Anarchy in Paving Matroid Congestion GamesCarla Michini from Dept. of Industrial and Systems Engineering1:00 PM, 3310 Computer Sciences
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]