CS majors Fall 2024
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Computer Sciences’ top ten stories of 2024
From breakthroughs in research to leaps in rankings, these headlines capture some of the massive achievements made in the 60th year of Computer Sciences at UW–Madison.
UW-Madison team does it again, placing first at regional ICPC
For the sixth year in a row, UW-Madison has placed first at the regional round of the International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC).
CS assistant professor Yuhang Zhao developing AI and AR technology to support day-to-day activities of people with low vision
A recent NIH, NEI-funded R01 award will enable Zhao and collaborators to support people with low vision by using AI to empower them in real-life activities.
For Army scholars, an MS in Data Engineering offers advanced training in a high-demand field
Beyond professional development, the MSDE program serves those who serve.
Good news provided by CS faculty:
(gathered by former Chair Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau)
November 2024:
- Prof Patrick McDaniel and colleagues won the ACSAC 2024 Test of Time Award, for their work on “Semantically Rich Application-Centric Security in Android”. [1]
- Prof Dieter van Melkebeek once again led six teams to great success in the regional round of this year’s International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC); they finished in 1st, 4th, 7th, 8th, 10th, and 20th place among nearly one hundred teams in the region. [2]
- Prof Fred Sala and his group had the following four papers accepted at NeurIPS, including one which received the Spotlight designation: “The AlCHEmist: Automated Labeling 500x CHEaper than LLM Data Annotators (Spotlight)”, “OTTER: Effortless Label Distribution Adaptation of Zero-shot Models”, “Stronger Than You Think: Benchmarking Weak Supervision on Realistic Tasks”, and “Pearls from Pebbles: Improved Confidence Functions for Auto-labeling”. [3]
- Prof Sharon Li gave a talk entitled “Steering Large Language Models by Human Preferences” at the UW-Madison Center for the Humanities. [4]
- Prof Bart Miller had an article written about his impact at Supercomputing entitled “Three Chairs and a Research Booth: How One PhD Advisor Shaped the SC Committee”. [5]
- Prof Bart Miller, working with Justin Hines, set up a pioneering engagement between our department and Apple. [6]
- UW students (including the UPL and others) organized MadHacks, an amazing hackathon hosted in our department, now annually. [7]
- Prof Manolis Vlatakis and colleagues had the paper “Contracting with a Learning Agent” accepted into NeurIPS 2024. [8]
- Prof Ming Liu had a PRIME grant on “EFabric” funded by D2P. [9]
- Prof Patrick McDaniel gave a Distinguished Lecture at UIUC entitled “”Adversarial Machine Learning: A 10-year Perspective”. [10]
- Prof Matt Sinclair gave an invited keynote at CAMS entitled “Reducing the GAP: Improving the Fidelity and Scalability of gem5’s GPU Models”. [11]
- Prof Rishab Goyal had two publications at the upcoming Asiacrypt: “Non-interactive Blind Signatures: Post-quantum and Stronger Security” and “Leakage-Resilient Incompressible Cryptography: Constructions and Barriers”. [12]