• Wisconsin’s undergraduate Computer Sciences program jumped to ninth among public universities in the 2025 U.S. News Rankings.
• Former Department Chair Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau was appointed by Provost Charles Lee Isbell, Jr. as the special advisor for computing and named the new incoming director of the School of Computer, Data & Information Sciences (CDIS).
• Tom Reps retired after 39 years, endowing the new Susan Beth Horwitz Professorship.
• During a record recruiting season in spring 2024, CS hired seven new tenure-track faculty members and several teaching faculty—some of whom have already joined us on campus.

• Chair Steve Wright was elected to the NAE and won the 2024 Dantzig Prize.
• Karu Sankaralingam was elevated to IEEE Fellow for "identifying the paradigm of dark silicon."
• Xiangyao Yu was named a 2024 Sloan Research Fellow.
• The National Security Agency named UW–Madison a Center of Academic Excellence in Cyber Research (CAE-R).

• UW–Madison wins silver at the 2024 ICPC World Finals. This is the first silver for UW–Madison, which has competed more consecutive years than any other North American team.
• Eric Pauley PhDx’25 won the 2024 Outstanding Graduate Student Research Award for his work identifying and countering a pervasive security risk on public clouds.
• Sprout, an expressive social robot from Amy Koike PhDx’27, won Best Paper: Design at the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction.
• NSF-funded research from Sophie Stephenson PhDx’25 explores TikTok “sharenting” and the significant risks it poses for children’s online privacy.