53 faculty and 40 courses in Computer Science at University of Wisconsin-Madison.
- McDaniel, Patrick, Tsun-Ming Shih Professor h-index 73
Patrick's research focuses on a wide range of topics in computer and network security and technical public policy, with particular interests in mobile and IoT device security, adversarial machine learning, systems security, program analysi
Notable: “The Limitations of Deep Learning in Adversarial Settings” (2016) · 3,923 citations
- Livny, Miron, John P. Morgridge Chair; Vilas Research Professor h-index 73
Which a wide range of techniques is employed to harness the power of very large collections of computing resources over long time intervals. My group is engaged in research efforts to develop management and scheduling techniques that emp
Notable: “BIRCH” (1996) · 3,908 citations
- Jha, Somesh, Sheldon B. Lubar Chair and Professor h-index 70
S are at the intersection of security and formal methods (FM) . Currently my active interests are in adversarial machine learning (AML) and privacy . I have a peripheral interest in several topics (e.g. computational finance ), but I have n
Notable: “The Limitations of Deep Learning in Adversarial Settings” (2016) · 3,923 citations
- Liu, Ming, Assistant Professor h-index 66
Notable: “Virtual-to-real deep reinforcement learning: Continuous control of mobile robots for mapless navigation” (2017) · 803 citations
- Wright, Stephen, George B. Dantzig Professor; Sheldon B. Lubar Chair; Hilldale Professor h-index 62
Numerical optimization, especially problems involving continuous variables. I'm interested in the theory, algorithms, and implementations, and in applications of all types. Hiring Several postdoctoral research positions are availabl
Notable: “Gradient Projection for Sparse Reconstruction: Application to Compressed Sensing and Other Inverse Problems” (2007) · 3,543 citations
- Gleicher, Michael, Professor h-index 62
Notable: “Motion graphs” (2008) · 1,068 citations
- Mutlu, Bilge, Sheldon B. and Marianne S. Lubar Professor h-index 59
Notable: “Human-robot proxemics” (2011) · 447 citations
- Doan, AnHai, Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor; Gurindar S. Sohi Professor h-index 54
Notable: “Crowdsourcing systems on the World-Wide Web” (2011) · 1,350 citations
- Ferris, Michael, John P. Morgridge Chair; Jacques-Louis Lions Professor h-index 52
Algorithms, environments, theory and applications of optimization. PhD: University of Cambridge, 1989 A brief history of some of the contributions to complementarity, games and equilibria from Wisconsin can be found here Details of work on
Notable: “Engineering and Economic Applications of Complementarity Problems” (1997) · 1,073 citations
- Arpaci-Dusseau, Andrea, Catherine A. Erickson Professor; Susan B. Horwitz Professor h-index 50
File and Storage systems, Operating systems, Distributed systems, Computer Science Education More Information: Biography CV
Notable: “WiscKey” (2017) · 287 citations
- Lee, Yong Jae, Susan Beth Horwitz Professor h-index 49
Notable: “Comparison of triglyceride-glucose index and HOMA-IR for predicting prevalence and incidence of metabolic syndrome” (2021) · 396 citations
- Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi, Grace Wahba Professor; Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor h-index 48
Notable: “WiscKey” (2017) · 287 citations
- Barford, Paul, Department Chair and Carl de Boor Professor h-index 46
In computer networking and communications with a focus on measurement and analysis of Internet data, protocols and topological structure. He also investigates Internet security including detection and identification of fraud, tra
Notable: “Generating representative Web workloads for network and server performance evaluation” (1998) · 1,438 citations
- Swift, Michael, Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor h-index 42
Notable: “Mnemosyne” (2011) · 723 citations
- Sankaralingam, Karthikeyan, Mark D. Hill and David A. Wood Professor h-index 41
Communications of the ACM The Reviewer is Dead, Long Live the Review: Re-engineering Peer Review for the Age of AI (SIGARCH blog) , Hacks to be a great reviewer ( SIGARCH blog ), Confuseds, Strategists, and Snoozers: A Whimsical Odyssey t
Notable: “Dark silicon and the end of multicore scaling” (2011) · 1,512 citations
- Chen, Yudong, Associate Professor h-index 39
Machine learning, reinforcement learning, optimization, and high-dimensional statistics. Some of the topics that I am recently interested in are: reinforcement learning theory, non-convex and nonsmooth learning problems, stochastic
Notable: “Tensor Robust Principal Component Analysis with a New Tensor Nuclear Norm” (2019) · 1,105 citations
- Cai, Jin-Yi, Juris Hartmanis Professor; Rajiv and Ritu Batra Chair h-index 39
Notable: “An optimal lower bound on the number of variables for graph identification” (1992) · 502 citations
- Li, Sharon, Assistant Professor h-index 39
Es on the foundations of safe and reliable AI systems, addressing challenges that arise in both model development and deployment in the wild. This involves handling out-of-distribution data and quantifying uncertainty of machine learning mo
Notable: “Enhancing The Reliability of Out-of-distribution Image Detection in Neural Networks” (2017) · 651 citations
- Zhu, Jerry, Stephen Kleene Professor h-index 37
In machine learning, particularly optimal teaching, sequential decision making, and learning in game theory. He currently serves or has served as conference chair for AISTATS and CogSci, position paper track chair for ICML, action edito
Notable: “Methyl Salicylate, a Soybean Aphid-Induced Plant Volatile Attractive to the Predator Coccinella septempunctata” (2005) · 353 citations
- Diakonikolas, Ilias, Sheldon B. Lubar Professor h-index 34
In algorithms and machine learning. A major goal of my work is to understand the tradeoff between statistical efficiency, computational efficiency, and robustness for fundamental problems in statistics and machine learning. Areas of cur
Notable: “Optimal Algorithms for Testing Closeness of Discrete Distributions” (2013) · 124 citations
- Zhao, Yuhang, Assistant Professor h-index 34
Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), accessibility, augmented and virtual reality (AR/VR), and AI-powered interactive systems. I design and build intelligent interactive systems to enhance human abilities. Via my research, I seek to un
Notable: “An Ultralight Self-Powered Fire Alarm e-Textile Based on Conductive Aerogel Fiber with Repeatable Temperature Monitoring Performance Used in Firefighting Clothing” (2022) · 279 citations
- Sala, Frederic, Assistant Professor h-index 33
Weak supervision for machine learning models ICML '20 NeurIPS '19 ICML '19 AAAI '19 blog Obtaining large amounts of labeled data is such a bottleneck that practitioners have increasingly turned to weaker forms of supervision. We stu
Notable: “Lung Organogenesis” (2010) · 420 citations
- Venkataraman, Shivaram, Assistant Professor h-index 31
In designing systems and algorithms for large scale data analysis and machine learning. Before coming to Madison, I was a post-doctoral researcher in the Systems Research Group at Microsoft Research in Redmond. Previously, I completed m
Notable: “Apache Spark” (2016) · 2,338 citations
- Sifakis, Eftychios, Professor and Associate Chair for Graduate Studies h-index 31
Notable: “Automatic determination of facial muscle activations from sparse motion capture marker data” (2005) · 315 citations
- Hu, Junjie, Assistant Professor h-index 30
Es on algorithmic design and fundamental understanding of machine learning models in NLP that enable safe deployment in the wild. Most recently, I’m fascinated by understanding behaviors of large language models (LLMs), adapting them effect
Notable: “Revisiting Single Image Depth Estimation: Toward Higher Resolution Maps With Accurate Object Boundaries” (2019) · 407 citations
- Brown, Gavin, Assistant Professor h-index 29
Notable: “Conditional likelihood maximisation: a unifying framework for information theoretic feature selection” (2012) · 1,057 citations
- Gupta, Mohit, Associate Professor h-index 29
Notable: “Video from a single coded exposure photograph using a learned over-complete dictionary” (2011) · 257 citations
- Yu, Xiangyao, Assistant Professor h-index 27
Notable: “Path ORAM” (2013) · 692 citations
- Albarghouthi, Aws, Associate Professor h-index 23
Notable: “Symbolic optimization with SMT solvers” (2014) · 122 citations
- Kandasamy, Kirthevasan, Assistant Professor h-index 20
Notable: “Neural Architecture Search with Bayesian Optimisation and Optimal Transport” (2018) · 267 citations
- Hanna, Josiah, Assistant Professor h-index 16
Notable: “Operations of a shared, autonomous, electric vehicle fleet: Implications of vehicle & charging infrastructure decisions” (2016) · 437 citations
- Goyal, Rishab, Assistant Professor h-index 16
Notable: “Lockable Obfuscation” (2017) · 124 citations
- van Melkebeek, Dieter, Professor h-index 15
Notable: “Satisfiability allows no nontrivial sparsification unless the polynomial-time hierarchy collapses” (2010) · 172 citations
- Chatterjee, Rahul, Associate Professor h-index 15
Notable: “The Spyware Used in Intimate Partner Violence” (2018) · 136 citations
- Tannu, Swamit, Assistant Professor h-index 14
Notable: “Not All Qubits Are Created Equal” (2019) · 299 citations
- Diakonikolas, Jelena, Assistant Professor h-index 11
Notable: “Integrated full duplex radios” (2017) · 168 citations
- Xie, Tengyang, Assistant Professor h-index 10
I work on Reinforcement Learning / Machine Learning / Artificial Intelligence. The primary goal of my research is to explore the mathematical principles and design efficient algorithms relevant to artificial general intelligence (AGI). My
Notable: “Towards Optimal Off-Policy Evaluation for Reinforcement Learning with Marginalized Importance Sampling” (2019) · 53 citations
- Prabhakara, Akarsh, Assistant Professor h-index 8
Broadly lie in wireless systems and cyber-physical systems. I lead the MachW Lab with the agenda to build wireless powered systems that perceive the world and communicate with high fidelity unlocking new application potentials.
Notable: “Millimetro” (2021) · 105 citations
- Cecchetti, Ethan, Assistant Professor h-index 7
Notable: “Town Crier” (2016) · 565 citations
- Abedi, Ali, Assistant Professor h-index 7
Computer systems and networking with a special focus on wireless networking/sensing, and low-power and low-cost networking for Internet of Things (IoT) devices. My
Notable: “Inverse Hysteresis Phenomena During CO and C3H6 Oxidation over a Pt/Al2O3 Catalyst” (2012) · 52 citations
- Murali, Adithya, Assistant Professor h-index 6
Notable: “IDTAXA: a novel approach for accurate taxonomic classification of microbiome sequences” (2018) · 620 citations
- Yuan, Charles, Assistant Professor h-index 6
Notable: “Twist: sound reasoning for purity and entanglement in Quantum programs” (2022) · 28 citations
- Silwal, Sandeep, Assistant Professor h-index 5
I broadly work in efficient algorithm design. Recently, I've been working in the intersection of machine learning and classical algorithms by designing provable algorithms in various ML settings, such as fast algorithms for processing large
Notable: “Adversarial Robustness of Streaming Algorithms through Importance Sampling” (2021) · 15 citations
- Koutris, Paris, Associate Professor h-index 2
Notable: “Algorithmic Aspects of Parallel Query Processing” (2018) · 4 citations
- Banerjee, Suman, David J. DeWitt Professor and Associate Chair
- Chajed, Tej, Assistant Professor
- Hagenow, Mike, Assistant Professor
Lie in shared autonomy and robot learning. Before working in robotics, I was a manager at Epic Systems working on patient portals . I received my BS in mechanical engineering from Tufts University in 2014 and my MS/PhD in mechanical enginee
- Khodak, Misha, Assistant Professor
- Miller, Barton, Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor; Amar & Balinder Sohi Professor
Binary code analysis and instrumentation, distributed and parallel program performance and tools, software security, scalable systems, operating systems, software testing. Brief Biography Barton Miller is a Vilas Distinguished Achievemen
- Sinclair, Matthew, Assistant Professor
Es on how to design, program, and optimize these future systems. Most of my work thus far has focused on designing tools, writing efficient software, and proposing efficient architectural changes to general-purpose accelerators like GPUs. I
- Sohi, Gurindar, E. David Cronon Professor; Vilas Research Professor
Computer architecture, parallel computing, memory systems, and performance evaluation. Teaching Interests: Computer organization (CS/ECE 354 and 552), computer architecture (752), and parallel computer architecture (757). Ph.D.: Electrical
- Vlatakis, Manolis, Assistant Professor
- Zhang, Jiawei, Assistant Professor
Roster/catalog compiled from the college’s public directory. Faculty counts are directory headcounts; the named list may be a subset. h-index shown only for ORCID-backed or high-confidence OpenAlex matches. Data as of 2026-07-02.