09/01/2020
The spring of 2020 was a very exciting hiring season for CDIS. Our departments of Computer Sciences, Statistics and the Information School (iSchool) hired a total of 15 faculty. Coming from top institutions around the country these new faculty will accelerate research in important areas, extend our capacity to educate students and increase our contributions to the campus community, region and beyond.
COMPUTER SCIENCES
Yea-Seul Kim
PhD: University of Washington
Research Areas: Human-computer interaction, visualization, and data science
Joining UW-Madison: Fall 2020
Yong Jae Lee
PhD: University of Texas-Austin
Research Areas: Computer vision, machine learning, and computer graphics
Joining UW-Madison: Fall 2021
Ming Liu
PhD: University of Washington
Research Areas: Networking and systems
Joining UW-Madison: Fall 2021
Fred Sala
PhD: University of California-Los Angeles
Research Areas: Machine learning, information theory, and data science
Joining UW-Madison: Spring 2021
Swamit Tannu
PhD: Georgia Institute of Technology
Research Area: Quantum computer architecture
Joining UW-Madison: Spring 2021
Yuhang Zhao
PhD: Cornell University
Research Areas: Human-computer interaction, accessibility, augmented reality/virtual reality, and mobile interaction
Joining UW-Madison: Spring 2021
INFORMATION SCHOOL
Ian Hutchins
PhD: University of Wisconsin-Madison
Research Area: Science policy
Joining UW-Madison: Fall 2020
Corey Jackson
PhD: Syracuse University
Research Area: Human-computer interaction
Joining UW-Madison: Fall 2021
Jiepu Jiang
PhD: University of Pittsburgh
Research Areas: Search systems and conversational systems
Joining UW-Madison: Fall 2020
Chaoqun Ni
PhD: Indiana University-Bloomington
Research Areas: Gender disparities in science and scholarly communication in science
Joining UW-Madison: Fall 2020
Adam Rule
PhD: University of California-San Diego
Research Areas: Clarity and reproducibility of data analyses
Joining UW-Madison: Fall 2021
Jacob Thebault-Spieker
PhD: University of Minnesota
Research Areas: Geographic and social biases in computing and crowdsourcing services
Joining UW-Madison: Fall 2020
STATISTICS
Jessi Cisewski-Kehe
PhD: University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
Research Areas: Astrostatistics, topological data analysis, and approximate Bayesian computation
Joining UW-Madison: Fall 2020
Keith Levin
PhD: Johns Hopkins University
Research Areas: Pattern recognition, graph inference, streaming and randomized algorithms, speech recognition and neuroscience
Joining UW-Madison: Fall 2020
Kris Sankaran
PhD: Stanford University
Research Areas: Heterogeneous and high-dimensional data, data visualization, statistical and deep learning and data for the public good
Joining UW-Madison: Fall 2020