Research

 

Research centers and consortia

 

• Center for NanoTechnology
• Center for Plasma Theory and Computation
• HSX Plasma Laboratory 
• Materials Research Science and Engineering Center
• Reed Center for Photonics
• Power Systems Engineering Research Center
• Wisconsin Center for Applied Microelectronics
• Wisconsin Electric Machines & Power Electronics Consortium (WEMPEC)
• Wisconsin Power Electronics Research Center

 

Research areas

 

Graduate studies are offered in all areas of electrical and computer engineering, and most specializations can be pursued in depth. The boundaries between areas are flexible and collaboration is encouraged.

 

Automatic control systems — Barmish, Cobb, Demarco, Dobson, Lesieutre, Sethares

 

Biomedical applications — Blick, Booske, Hagness, Hu, Jiang, Milenkovic, Nowak, Shohet, Van Veen, van der Weide

 

Communication, information and coding theory — Boston, Bucklew, Draper, Gubner, Hu, Nowak, Sayeed, Sethares, Van Veen

 

Computer architecture — Compton, Kim, Lipasti, Schulte

 

Computer networks — Hu, Ramanathan, Saluja

 

Electric machines and power electronics — Han, Jahns, Venkataramanan

 

Electromagnetic waves — Anderson, Behdad, Booske, Hagness, Hitchon, Shohet, van der Weide, Wendt

 

Embedded systems and reconfigurable computing — Compton, Kim, Schulte

 

Networking — Boston, Draper, Hu, Nowak, Sayeed, Van Veen

 

Photonics — Botez, Hagness, Knezevic, Mawst, McCaughan

 

Plasmas and controlled fusion — Anderson, Hitchon, Shohet, Wendt

 

Power systems — Demarco, Dobson, Lesieutre, Venkataramanan

 

Signal processing — Bucklew, Boston, Draper, Gubner, Hu, Milenkovic, Nowak, Sayeed, Sethares, Van Veen

 

Solid-state and microelectronics — Blick, Botez, Hitchon, Knezevic, Jiang, Ma, Mawst, McCaughan, Shohet, van der Weide

 

VLSI design automation and testing — Compton, Davoodi, Hu, Kim, Saluja