Todd Allen
Engineering Physics
From 1997 until he joined the Department of
Engineering Physics
as an assistant professor,
Todd R. Allen
worked at Argonne National Laboratory-West, most recently as section manager for reactor materials. He received his PhD in 1997 in nuclear engineering from the
University of Michigan; his research interests include materials for
nuclear energy systems, radiation damage, electron microscopy, and
mechanical testing.
Robert Blick
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Robert Blick is an associate professor
in the Department of
Electrical and Computer Engineering
and also is affiliated with the
Materials Science Program.
He received his PhD at the Max Planck Institute in Stuttgart, Germany, in 1996, working on microwave spectroscopy on quantum dots. From there, he completed postdoctoral training at California Institute of Technology, focusing on nano-electromechanical systems (NEMS), and became an assistant professor at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany. His research interests include electromechanical structures on the micro- and nanoscale; single-electron, single-spin circuits and devices; and information processing in quantum and biofunctionalized circuits.
Katherine Compton
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Katherine Compton,
who earned her PhD in computer
engineering from Northwestern University in 2003, joins the Department
of
Electrical and Computer Engineering
as an assistant professor. Her
research interests include reconfigurable computing, reconfigurable
architectures, domain-specific architectures, and embedded computing.
Padma Gopalan
Materials Science and Engineering
Padma Gopalan joins the Department of
Materials Science and Engineering
as an assistant professor and also is affiliated with
the Department of
Chemistry
and the
Materials Science Program.
After
receiving her PhD in polymer chemistry in September 2001 from Cornell
University she was a postdoctoral member at Bell Laboratories materials
research department from 2001 to 2003. Her research interests include
polymer synthesis, electronic and photonic materials, self-assembly and
directed-assembly of block copolymers, liquid crystalline polymers,
photonic devices and biosensors.
Kristyn S. Masters
Biomedical Engineering
Kristyn S. Masters,
who received her PhD in chemical engineering from Rice University in 2001, joins the
Department of
Biomedical Engineering
as an assistant professor. Most
recently a postdoctoral fellow working on developing a tissue-engineered
heart valve and fabricating microfluidic devices for biological
applications at the University of Colorado-Boulder,
Masters,
is interested in tissue engineering, biomaterials, cell-material
interactions, and patterning of cells and cytokines.
Seapahn Megerian
Electrical and Computer Engineering
After earning a 2003 PhD in computer science from the
University of California-Los Angeles,
Seapahn Megerian
joins the Department of
Electrical and Computer Engineering
as an assistant professor.
His research interests include analysis and design of
distributed embedded systems and wireless sensor networks.
Robert D. Nowak
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Robert D. Nowak
joins the Department of
Electrical and Computer Engineering
as an associate professor. Formerly an assistant
professor at Michigan State University and most recently an associate
professor at Rice University,
Nowak
received his PhD in
electrical and computer engineering
from UW-Madison and completed a postdoctoral
fellowship at Rice University. His research interests include
statistical signal and image processing, wavelets and multiscale
analysis, computational and applied mathematics, applications in
biomedicine, learning systems, and communication networks.
Frank E. Pfefferkorn
Mechanical Engineering
An assistant professor of
mechanical engineering,
Frank E. Pfefferkorn
recently completed postdoctoral studies in the nanoscale
thermo fluids laboratory at Purdue University. He built a soft
lithography lab and worked on projects related to thermionic emission
from nanostructured carbon surfaces, the effect of carbon nanotubes on
pool boiling, and anode heating as a result of field emission from a
carbon nanotube.
Pfefferkorn
earned his PhD in mechanical engineering in
2002 from Purdue as well; his research interests include heat transfer,
laser-assisted machining and welding, machining of ceramics and other
difficult-to-machine materials, carbon nanotube synthesis and
applications of carbon nanotubes, and infrared radiation thermometry.
Heidi-Lynn Ploeg
Mechanical Engineering
Heidi-Lynn Ploeg,
whose research interests include bone
modeling and remodeling, orthopedic implant design, biomechanics, finite
element analysis, and fatigue of materials, joins the Department of
Mechanical Engineering
as an assistant professor. In addition, she is affiliated
with
UW-CREATe.
From 1992 through 2001,
Ploeg
was a project manager in
the research and analysis department at Centerpulse Orthopedics, Ltd.,
in Winterthur, Switzerland. She conducted her PhD research at
Centerpulse and earned her PhD in mechanical engineering in 2000 from
Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
Krishnan Suresh
Mechanical Engineering
Krishnan Suresh,
who received his PhD in mechanical engineering from Cornell University in 1998, joins the Department of
Mechanical Engineering
as an assistant professor. From 1998 to 2003, he
designed high-precision semiconductor equipment at Kulicke and Soffa
Industries, Philadelphia; his research interests include geometric
modeling, CAD/CAE automation,
precision machine design, and engineering mechanics.
Justin Williams
Biomedical Engineering
After receiving his PhD in 2001 from Arizona State
University in bioengineering,
Justin Williams
completed a dual postdoctoral fellowship in neural engineering at the University of
Michigan in conjunction with the Department of Neurosurgery at
UW-Madison, working on clinical neural implant development. He joins the
Department of
Biomedical Engineering
as an assistant professor.
Williams'
research interests include neural engineering, neural implant
development, implant-tissue interactions, functional neurosurgery,
neural rehabilitation, and neural prostheses.
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