53 faculty and 40 courses in Computer Science at University of Wisconsin-Madison.
- 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
- Wright, Stephen, George B. Dantzig Professor; Sheldon B. Lubar Chair; Hilldale Professor h-index 67
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
- Liu, Ming, Assistant Professor h-index 66
- Gleicher, Michael, Professor h-index 62
- Mutlu, Bilge, Sheldon B. and Marianne S. Lubar Professor h-index 59
- 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
- Lee, Yong Jae, Susan Beth Horwitz Professor h-index 49
- Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi, Grace Wahba Professor; Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor h-index 48
- 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
- Swift, Michael, Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor h-index 42
- Cai, Jin-Yi, Juris Hartmanis Professor; Rajiv and Ritu Batra Chair h-index 39
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Brown, Gavin, Assistant Professor h-index 29
- Gupta, Mohit, Associate Professor h-index 29
- Albarghouthi, Aws, Associate Professor h-index 23
- Kandasamy, Kirthevasan, Assistant Professor h-index 20
- Goyal, Rishab, Assistant Professor h-index 16
- van Melkebeek, Dieter, Professor h-index 15
- Chatterjee, Rahul, Associate Professor h-index 15
- Diakonikolas, Jelena, Assistant Professor h-index 11
- Zhao, Yuhang, Assistant Professor h-index 11
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
- Chen, Yudong, Associate Professor h-index 10
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
- 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
- Cecchetti, Ethan, Assistant Professor h-index 7
- 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
- Yuan, Charles, Assistant Professor h-index 6
- 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
- Koutris, Paris, Associate Professor h-index 2
- Arpaci-Dusseau, Andrea, Catherine A. Erickson Professor; Susan B. Horwitz Professor
File and Storage systems, Operating systems, Distributed systems, Computer Science Education More Information: Biography CV
- Banerjee, Suman, David J. DeWitt Professor and Associate Chair
- Chajed, Tej, Assistant Professor
- Doan, AnHai, Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor; Gurindar S. Sohi 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
- Hanna, Josiah, Assistant Professor
- Khodak, Misha, Assistant Professor
- Li, Sharon, Assistant Professor
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
- Livny, Miron, John P. Morgridge Chair; Vilas Research Professor
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
- McDaniel, Patrick, Tsun-Ming Shih Professor
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
- 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
- Murali, Adithya, Assistant Professor
- Prabhakara, Akarsh, Assistant Professor
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.
- Sankaralingam, Karthikeyan, Mark D. Hill and David A. Wood Professor
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
- Sifakis, Eftychios, Professor and Associate Chair for Graduate Studies
- 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
- Tannu, Swamit, Assistant Professor
- Vlatakis, Manolis, Assistant Professor
- Yu, Xiangyao, 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 2026-07-01.