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Allie, Mark C. - Associate Faculty Associate
Anderson, David T. - Professor: Plasmas and Controlled Fusion -- Electromagnetic Fields and Waves -- Magnet design -- Plasma transport and heating in toroidal systems
HSX Plasma Laboratory
Armstrong, Carter - Professor (Adjunct)
Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi - Professor (Affiliate)
Bach, C. Eric - Professor (Adjunct)
Banerjee, Suman - Assistant Professor (Affiliate): Networking and Distributed Systems; protocols, algorithms and architectures of such systems, peer-to-peer systems, multicast services, network security, services for mobile and wireless networks and network measurements
Barmish, B. Ross - Professor: Uncertain Dynamical Systems -- Applied Mathematics -- Feedback Control Systems -- Robustness of Systems -- Computational Complexity -- Applied Probability -- Optimization and Convexity -- Modelling of Financial Markets
Barner, James R. - Associate Faculty Associate
Behdad, Nader - Assistant Professor: Applied Electromagnetics and RF/Microwaves -- Biomedical Applications of RF/Microwaves -- Biomimetic Concepts in Applied Electromagnetics -- Antennas, Periodic Structures, Frequency Selective Surfaces, and Phased Array Antennas
Blasko, Vladimir - Professor (Adjunct): power electronics -- adjustable-speed drives -- control of power electronics/drives
Wisconsin Electric Machines and Power Electronics Consortium
Blick, Robert H. - Lynn H. Matthias Professor in Engineering: Electro-mechanical structures on the micro- and nanoscale (NEMS & MEMS) -- Single electron, single spin circuits and devices -- Information processing in quantum and biofunctionalized circuits
Genome Center, Materials Science Center, Materials Science Program
Block, Walter F. - Associate Chair of the BME Graduate Program and Professor (Affiliate): magnetic resonance (MR) interventional procedures -- MR angiography and cardiac imaging - specifically designing real-time magnetic resonance acquisition and processing algorithms and systems for these procedures -- MR contrast mechanisms -- signal and image processing -- distributed computing
Biomedical Engineering Center for Translational Research, Materials Science Program
Boston, Nigel - Professor: Cryptography -- Coding theory -- Biometrics -- Digital watermarking -- Applications of algebra to EE, CS, and Math Dept.
Botez, Dan - Philip Dunham Reed Professor: Active Photonic Crystal semiconductor lasers -- Quantum-cascade lasers and intersubband quantum-box lasers -- High-power, spatially coherent semiconductor lasers
Materials Science Program, Reed Center for Photonics
Bucklew, James A. - Professor: Simulation of communication systems and networks; rare event simulation; digital and wireless communication systems
Cobb, Daniel - Associate Professor: analog and digital control theory -- robust control of high bandwidth systems -- singular perturbation theory -- singular dynamical systems
Compton, Katherine - Associate Professor: reconfigurable computer architectures -- automated design for reconfigurable computing -- operating system support for heterogeneous computing -- systems-on-a-chip (SoCs) -- VLSI computer aided design
Davoodi, Azadeh - Assistant Professor: Automation techniques for post-silicon debug of timing errors -- Improving IC-CAD via algorithmic parallelism -- Design Automation in the presence of manufacturing-induced variations -- Physical design and synthesis for optimizing timing, power and manufacturability
Computer Engineering
DeMarco, Christopher L. - Grainger Professor of Power Engineering: control systems, power systems -- electric power system stability -- nonlinear dynamics -- computational complexity in computer-aided control analysis
Power Systems Engineering Research Center, Wisconsin Power Electronics Research Center
Dobson, Ian - Professor: complex systems -- self-organized criticality -- nonlinear dynamics -- cascading failure and risk analysis -- bifurcations -- electric power system stability -- oscillations -- blackouts
Power Systems Engineering Research Center, Wisconsin Power Electronics Research Center
Draper, Stark C - Assistant Professor: signal processing, communications, code design, biometrics, security, streaming media, estimation, information theory, queuing, networking
Gubner, John A. - Professor: Ultra-wideband communications, point processes and shot noise, subspace methods in statistical signal processing, information theory.
Hagness, Susan C. - Philip Dunham Reed Professor: bioelectromagnetics -- computational electromagnetics -- dielectric spectroscopy -- FDTD theory and applications -- microwave diagnostic and therapeutic techniques for biological and medical applications -- microwave inverse scattering -- nanoelectromagnetics -- wideband and multi-band antennas -- ultrawideband microwave breast imaging -- STEM outreach -- first-year engineering education (see the video about our Grand Challenges course posted on Science360)
Wisconsin Comprehensive Cancer Center
Han, Yehui - Assistant Professor: Power Electronics and Renewable Energy -- Flexible AC Transmission System (FACTS) -- Electromechanical Energy Conversion -- RF, Analog and Digital Electronics
Wisconsin Electric Machines and Power Electronics Consortium
Hill, Mark D. - Professor (Affiliate): computer architecture -- performance evaluation -- computer memory system design -- parallel computing
Hiskens, Ian A. - Professor: Power system analysis; nonlinear and hybrid system dynamics and control; computational techniques for inverse problems.
Power Systems Engineering Research Center
Hitchon, William N. - Professor: plasma processing -- computational modeling -- semiconductors
Center for Plasma-Aided Manufacturing, Materials Science Program
Hu, Yu Hen - Professor, Vice-chair for Operations: Multimedia signal processing: fast algorithms, parallel VLSI architectures, and multi-processor synthesis methodology, artificial neural networks and fuzzy logic applications, computer-aided design, parallel processing
Biomedical Engineering Center for Translational Research
Jahns, Thomas M. - Grainger Professor of Power Electronics and Electrical Machines: power electronics -- electric machines and actuators -- adjustable-speed drives -- brushless motor drives and generators -- automotive and aerospace electric systems
Wisconsin Electric Machines and Power Electronics Consortium
Jiang, Hongrui - Associate Professor: MicroElectroMechanical Systems -- Microsensors and microactuators -- BioMEMS and micro-optics -- Microfluidics -- Lab on chips -- Biomimetics and bioinspiration
Biomedical Engineering Center for Translational Research, Materials Science Program, UW Eye Research Institute
Kim, Nam Sung - Assistant Professor: Reliable, Process-Variation Tolerant, and Low-Power Computer Architecture and VLSI Computing System Design -- Nanoscale Fault-Tolerant Digital Circuits -- Circuit-Microarchitecture Co-Design -- Biomimetic Circuits
Knezevic, Irena - Associate Professor: Simulation of electronic and optoelectronic semiconductor devices -- Nanowire thermoelectrics. Heat transport on the nanoscale -- Decoherence and relaxation in nanostructures; transient and high-frequency response -- Transport in curved 2D electron systems -- Solid-state-based quantum information processing
Materials Research Science and Engineering Center, Materials Science Program
Krachey, Joseph S. - Assistant Faculty Associate: Embedded Systems Design I am not currently involved in research.
Lesieutre, Bernard - Professor
Lipasti, Mikko H. - Philip Dunham Reed Professor: computer architecture -- instruction-level parallelism -- compiler optimization -- runtime systems -- operating systems
Computer Engineering
Ma, Zhenqiang (Jack) - Professor: High-speed RF devices and circuits, optoelectronic devices and nanophotonics -- Semiconductor materials processing and heterogeneous integration -- Flexible electronics, flexible optoelectronics and flexible photonics -- Energy conversion semiconductor devices -- Bioelectronics and biomimetics -- Semiconductor device physics -- Power electronics
Materials Science Program, Nuclear Engineering and Engineering Physics, UW Energy Institute, Wisconsin Center for Applied Microelectronics
Mawst, Luke J. - Professor: III/V compound semiconductor materials and devices -- metalorganic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD) growth of semiconductors -- semiconductor lasers
Materials Science Program, Reed Center for Photonics
McCaughan, Leon - Professor: Nonlinear optics -- Far infrared (terahertz) generation and spectrocopy -- Guided wave photonic devices and circuits -- Quantum optics
Materials Science Program
Milenkovic, Paul H. - Associate Professor: digital signal processing -- acoustic analysis of speech -- speech synthesis
Biomedical Engineering Center for Translational Research, Waisman Center
Milicic, Srdjan - Assistant Faculty Associate: Wisconsin Center for Applied Microelectronics
Morrow, Michael G. - Faculty Associate
Nowak, Robert D. - McFarland-Bascom Professor in Engineering: statistical signal processing, machine learning, imaging, network science, and applications in computational biology, medicine and communications.
Prada, Marta - Associate Lecturer, Honorary Associate/Fellow
Ramanathan, Parameswaran - Professor: Wireless and Wireline Networks -- Mobile Computing -- Real-time Systems -- Fault-tolerant Computing -- Parallel Processing -- Distributed Systems
Recht, Benjamin - Assistant Professor (Affiliate)
Saluja, Kewal K. - Professor: Design for testability -- Built-in self-test -- Computer architecture -- VLSI design and testing -- Fault-tolerant computing
Sanders, Scott T. - Associate Professor (Affiliate): swept-wavelength sources -- advanced spectrometers -- hyperspectral imaging -- optical sensors -- piston and aeropropulsion engines
Engine Research Center
Sankaralingam, Karthikeyan - Assistant Professor (Affiliate)
Sayeed, Akbar M. - Professor: wireless communications, wireless sensing, multipath channels, multi-dimensional communication theory, multi-dimensional signal representations, statistical signal processing, information theory, learning theory, and applications in networked communication and sensing
Schulte, Michael J. - Associate Professor: Embedded Systems -- Computer Architecture -- Computer Arithmetic -- Reconfigurable Computing -- Domain-Specific Processor Design
Computer Engineering
Sethares, William A. - Professor: modeling and adaptation in signal processing, acoustics, and control
Shohet, J. Leon - Professor: plasma-aided manufacturing -- controlled fusion -- nonlinear science -- effects of vacuum ultraviolet radiation on the processing of electronic materials -- biotechnology, especially biomaterials and directed differentiation of stem cells
Biotechnology Training Program, Center for Plasma-Aided Manufacturing, HSX Plasma Laboratory, Materials Science Center, Materials Science Program, Plasma Processing and Technology Laboratory, Synchrotron Radiation Center
Sohi, Gurindar S. - Professor (Affiliate): computer architecture -- non-numeric processing -- VLSI design -- parallel processing
Tompkins, Willis J. - Associate Chair of the BME Undergraduate Program and Professor (Affiliate): microcomputer-based biomedical instrumentation -- real-time biomedical digital signal processing -- biomedical computing
Biomedical Engineering Center for Translational Research
van der Weide, Daniel - Professor: Multifunctional scanned probe microscopy -- Localized spectroscopy of biological and low-dimensional electronic systems -- Terahertz circuits and devices
Biomedical Engineering Center for Translational Research, Materials Science Program
Van Veen, Barry D. - Lynn H. Matthias Professor: statistical signal processing algorithm development and analysis -- signal processing for sensor arrays -- biomedical applications of signal processing -- signal processing for study of brain networks from electric and magnetic field measurements -- signal processing for microwave breast cancer detection, monitoring, and treatment
Varghese, Tomy - Associate Professor (Affiliate): Elastography -- In-vivo strain imaging -- Signal & Image Processing Applications in Medical Imaging -- Ultrasound Tissue Characterization
Biomedical Engineering Center for Translational Research
Venkataramanan, Giri - Professor: Electrical power conversion -- AC power flow control -- Design of power converters -- Distributed generation -- Power converter architecture -- power converter packaging
Wisconsin Electric Machines and Power Electronics Consortium
Wendt, Amy E. - Professor: plasma processing of materials -- thin-film deposition -- plasma etching -- plasma source design -- modeling and diagnostics -- plasma-aided manufacturing -- plasma generation -- plasma-surface interaction
Center for Plasma-Aided Manufacturing, Materials Science Program
Wiley, John D. - Professor (Affiliate)
Wood, David A. - Professor (Affiliate): computer architecture -- performance evaluation -- VLSI systems design -- parallel processing -- computer memory system design
Zhang, Li - Assistant Professor (Affiliate)

Emeritus Faculty

Alvarado, Fernando L. - Professor Emeritus: power systems -- computer applications -- power system security -- computational engineering -- sparse matrices
Power Systems Engineering Research Center
Lasseter, Robert H. - Professor Emeritus: Distributed resources -- Restructuring of electrical power system -- Application of power electronics to utility systems -- Simulation methods -- Power electronic circuits and control -- HVDC, SVC, FACTS and custom power applications
Power Systems Engineering Research Center, Wisconsin Electric Machines and Power Electronics Consortium
Lipo, Thomas A. - Grainger Professor of Power Electronics and Electrical Machines Emeritus: power electronics -- adjustable speed drives -- electric machines -- ac motor drive systems
Wisconsin Electric Machines and Power Electronics Consortium, Wisconsin Power Electronics Research Center
Lumelsky, Vladimir J. - Professor Emeritus: robotics -- pattern recognition -- kinematics -- human spatial reasoning and motion planning -- sensor-based intelligent systems -- sensor-based navigation and localization -- Sensor-based navigation and localization -- control theory, industrial automation -- computer vision
Novotny, Donald W. - Professor Emeritus: industrial controls -- machine control concepts -- power electronics -- electrical machines -- motor drives
Wisconsin Electric Machines and Power Electronics Consortium, Wisconsin Power Electronics Research Center
Scharer, John E. - Professor Emeritus: Electromagnetic wave propagation and antennas for communications -- Free-electron and excimer lasers -- Microwave and millimeter wave amplifiers -- Computer simulation of and experiments on plasma waves and radiofrequency plasma sources for materials processing -- Radiofrequency wave antenna coupling, heating and current drive in fusion plasmas
Center for Plasma Theory and Computation
Smith, James E. - Professor Emeritus: Computer Architecture -- High performance processor and system implementations -- Virtual Machines -- Power efficient processors
Vernon, Ronald J. - Professor Emeritus: electromagnetic fields and waves, microwaves -- high-power microwave transmission and mode conversion systems -- Vlasov converters -- antennas -- propagation in anisotropic media -- interaction of microwaves with materials -- semiconductor physics

Date last modified: 11-Jan-2012
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