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
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 …
Prof. Jelena Diakonikolas named 2024 AFOSR Young Investigator
“The results are going to be fundamental,” says Diakonikolas. The Air Force Office of Scientific Research agrees. Any given computational problem has a number of possible solutions, each with its own set of advantages, limitations, …
Study Abroad Opens Doors to Music Success in Norway for CS Alum
Study Abroad Opens Doors to Music Success in Norway
Events
- March
- March 19
- March 19Talk: Modern Clouds: Side-Channel Attacks and DefensesZirui (Neil) Zhao: PhD Candidate, Computer Science, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign 12:00 PM, 1240 Computer Sciences
- March 19
- March 20Talk: In Pursuit of Medical Foundation ModelsYuyin Zhou: Assistant Professor, Computer Science and Engineering, University of California, Santa Cruz12:00 PM, 1240 Computer Sciences
- March 21Talk: Hidden Capabilities and Counterintuitive Limits in Large Language ModelsPeter West: PhD Candidate, Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering, University of Washington12:00 PM, 1240 Computer Sciences
Good news provided by CS faculty:
(gathered by former Chair Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau)
February 5, 2024:
- Prof Mike Swift was named a Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor. [1]
- Prof Swamit Tannu was awarded an NSF CAREER award for his work on “Enabling Scalable and Resilient Quantum Computer Architectures through Synergistic Hardware-Software Co-Design”. [2]
- Prof Matt Sinclair is giving a talk entitled “Leveraging open source simulators to enable HW/SW co-design of next-generation HPC systems” at a DOE PI meeting. [3]
- Prof Mohit Gupta has been awarded a patent for his work on “Systems, Methods, and Media for improving signal-to-noise ratio in single-photon data”. [4]
- Prof Yong Jae Lee has published the paper “Edit One for All: Interactive Batch Image Editing” [5].
- Prof Mike Swift has published the paper “Cost-effective and performant virtual WANs with CORNIFER” [6].