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
Alumni Highlight: Keith Noto (PhD ’07) – Principal Scientist at AncestryDNA
From a UW-Madison student to Principal Scientist at the largest provider of consumer DNA testing in the world, Keith Noto shares details on his trajectory and current role.
Meet new faculty member Manolis Vlatakis: “True insight comes from embracing real-world imperfections.”
Manolis Vlatakis comes to UW–Madison from a postdoctoral research position at the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing at University of California—Berkeley after earning his PhD at Columbia University. At UW–Madison he will focus …
CS student uses AI to aid analysis of astronomical data
“I realized that there are many open mysteries in the universe waiting to be solved and, importantly, I could be a part of solving them,” says Karcheski.
CS student researches Venus from the UW Dorms
As part of the College of Letters & Science’s LASER program, a CS undergraduate spent the summer observing Venus through work that redefines what research means to them.
Events
- October
- October 16Statistics Seminar Causal Discovery from Multivariate Functional Data by Yang Ni4:00 PM, 133 Service Memorial Institute
- October 16
- October 18Machine Learning Lunch MeetingStairway to Specialization: The Path of Scalable Experts12:30 PM, 1221 Computer Sciences
- October 18
- October 22
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]