Papailiopoulos Earns Emil Steiger Teaching Award
The Atlantic Interviews Ellenberg
Nowak, Singh, and Zhu Win Data Science Institute Grants
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Two Faculty Spearhead New ML/AI Conferences
Po-Ling Loh was the one of the key people who created the Midwest Machine Learning Symposium. The symposium aims to convene regional machine learning researchers for stimulating discussions and debates, to foster cross-institutional collaboration, and to showcase the collective talent of machine learning researchers at all career stages. It will be held at the Logan Center at University of Chicago on June 6-7, 2018. The MMLS was founded in 2017 and Prof. Loh is this year’s chair. More information:
http://midwest-ml.org/2018/
Dimitris Papailiopoulos co-chaired the first SysML Conference in Stanford, California February 15-16, 2018. SysML is a new conference targeting research at the intersection of systems and machine learning. The conference aimed to elicit new connections amongst these fields, including identifying best practices and design principles for learning systems, as well as developing novel learning methods and theory tailored to practical machine learning workflows. More information: http://www.sysml.cc/2018/index.html
A modern learning experience
Dane Morgan is featured in a June 2016, College of Engineering story about Informatics Skunkworks.
Computer-generated database of diffusion values is shared online
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Materials Science & Engineering
University of Wisconsin—Madison engineers recently used powerful computers to quickly and accurately develop the world’s largest computed database of information about an important materials-mixing process called diffusion.
Led by Dane Morgan, Harvey D. Spangler Professor in Materials Science and Engineering at UW–Madison, the researchers published details of their advance July 19 in the journal Scientific Data. They also made the entire database freely available online, along with an online application to easily search and visualize the data and a utility called the Materials Simulation Toolkit (MAST) for engineers across the globe to access and use in their own materials design applications.
Big Data: Madison visionaries turn tiny pieces of data into big ideas
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Electrical & Computer Engineering
Rob Nowak and the beer mapper app he developed are highlighted in a recent Capital Times front page feature.
Game-changing computational approach takes the guesswork out of materials design
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Materials Science & Engineering
Dane Morgan teams with John Booske to identify a promising candidate compound that could be used in next-generation vacuum electronic devices.
Full story by Sam Million-Weaver.