Campus Highlights

DSI Affiliate Sharon Li is a 2025 Sloan Research Fellow. This award recognizes 126 of the most promising early-career scientists in the U.S. and Canada.

Diakonikolas studies the algorithmic foundations of massive data sets and works on designing efficient algorithms for fundamental problems in machine learning.

DSI’s Arjun Iyer and Iain McConnell worked with Kim Cowles and Jeri Barak, Plant Pathology, to create a Streamlit app for leaf area and lesion analysis.

DSI Affiliate Jelena Diakonikolas recently received a NSF CAREER Award for a proposal inspired by a DSI event on climate-smart agriculture and forestry.

DSI Affiliate Kaiping Chen was honored with a UW–Madison Vilas Faculty Investigator Award. Her work focuses on computational social science.

DSI Affiliate Ying Li led a UW-Madison research team that trained machine-learning models to identify high-performing polymers for film capacitors.

DSI Affiliate Jessi Cisewski-Kehe was honored with the prestigious NSF CAREER award, which will support her work on advanced statistical methods in astronomy.

Smith uses machine learning and AI to create models that capture extensive data about how crop diseases might spread and build forecasting tools for farmers.

Pallavi Tiwari and her colleagues are using AI to identify sex-specific risks associated with a lethal form of brain cancer called glioblastoma.

Quintos is using reinforcement learning to glean new insights from microlending data, helping financial institutions optimize loan amounts and set fair interest rates.