Category: Campus Highlights

Feickert Awarded Early-Career Fellowship

DSI Research Scientist Matthew Feickert is an inaugural recipient of a URSSI fellowship for advancing research software development practices.

DSI Director and Staff Honored With Breakthrough Physics Prize

Kyle Cranmer, Alex Held, Matthew Feickert, Nils Krumnack, Garrett Merz, and Jay Sandesara were recognized for contributions to the CERN Large Hadron Collider.

Solís-Lemus Recognized for Public Science Engagement

DSI Affiliate Claudia Solís-Lemus received the received the Bassam Z. Shakhashiri Public Science Engagement Award in recognition of her outreach and service.

Li Awarded Sloan Fellowship

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.

DSI Affiliate Ilias Diakonikolas Awarded WARF Romnes Fellowship

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

DSI-Plant Pathology Partnership Blooms With New Publication

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.

Jelena Diakonikolas Receives NSF CAREER Award

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

Chen Receives Vilas Award

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

Machine Learning Models Identify Promising Polymers for Tech Innovation

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

Cisewski-Kehe Receives NSF CAREER Award

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