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Krishanu Saha - Faculty
Professor
Personalized and Regenerative Medicine, Biomaterials Engineering, Stem Cell Biology, Developmental Biology, Signal transduction, Systems biology, Synthetic biology, Evolution & optimization of signaling proteins and networks, Design principles of spatial and temporal control networks in cells, ksaha@wisc.edu, (608) 316-4313

Kewal Saluja - Faculty
Professor Emeritus
Electrical and Computer Engineering, Computer Sciences
Design for testability, Built-in self-test, Computer architecture, VLSI design and testing, Fault-tolerant computing
saluja@engr.wisc.edu,

Joshua San Miguel - Faculty
Associate Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering, Computer Sciences
Approximate computing, processor microarchitecture, intermittent computing, energy-harvesting IoT devices, branch prediction, value prediction, cache architectures, networks-on-chip.
jsanmiguel@wisc.edu, (608) 890-2635

Scott T. Sanders - Faculty
Professor
Mechanical Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering
My group develops optical sensors and instrumentation that help solve critical problems related to energy. We also work on problems related to manufacturing and human health. Ongoing projects include:Quadcopter-based hydrogen plume imager for hydrogen leak detection, Optical sensor for monitoring hydrogen concentration in blended-fuel pipel...
stsanders@wisc.edu, (608) 262-3540

Jerry L. Sanders - Faculty
Professor Emeritus
Automatic Assembly Systems, stochastic processes, flame cutting layout procedures, production systems
jlsanders@wisc.edu,

Bela Sandor - Faculty
Professor Emeritus
Ancient chariots: comprehensive mechanics analysis and humanistic aspects, stress-strain in materials, fatigue and fracture of engineering materials, structures, joint systems, damage alleviation; fracture control, infrared thermographic stress analysis
sandor@engr.wisc.edu, (608) 255-4222


Karthikeyan Sankaralingam - Faculty
Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering, Computer Sciences
karu@cs.wisc.edu, (608) 890-0121

Kris Sankaran - Faculty
Assistant Professor
Navigating latent structure in multi-omics
Modern sequencing, imaging, and spectroscopy technologies give a window into complex biological environments. However, exploring these data without getting lost remains a challenge — statistical methods can help chart out the territory. We are interested in building models and inter...
ksankaran@wisc.edu, (608) 263-7688


Bulent Sarlioglu - Faculty
Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering, College of Engineering, WEMPEC, Mechanical Engineering
Electric machines, drives, power electronics, Electric actuation systems, Automotive, aerospace, naval and renewable energy applications, Complex and interdisciplinary power system architecture
sarlioglu@wisc.edu, (608) 262-2703
Majid Sarmadi - Faculty
Professor
Finishing, Dyeing, Wettability, flammability of textiles, Plasma modifications of materials, Textile sustainability, chemical properties and structures of textile fibers
majidsar@wisc.edu, (608) 262-7492

Glenn A. Sather - Faculty
Professor Emeritus
Stoichiometry, thermodynamics
gasather@facstaff.wisc.edu, (608) 262-1092


Frank L. Scarpace - Faculty
Professor Emeritus
Image processing, remote sensing
scarpace@facstaff.wisc.edu, (608) 263-3973

John Scharer - Faculty
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
scharer@engr.wisc.edu,

James Jay Schauer - Faculty
Professor
Civil and Environmental Engineering, Environmental Chemistry and Technology, Mechanical Engineering, Chemical and Biological Engineering
I am interested in developing measurement and chemical characterization tools to quantitatively understand the origin and impacts of air pollution. These tools are designed to address the impacts of air pollution on human health, climate change and sensitive ecosystems, and to support the development of control strategies to mitigate the adverse ...
jjschauer@wisc.edu, (608) 262-4495

James P. Scherz - Faculty
Professor Emeritus
developing basic GIS, archeoastronomy and mapping prehistoric sites, surveying, photogrammetry
scherz@engr.wisc.edu, (608) 262-7901

Alois Schlack Jr. - Faculty
Professor Emeritus
Dynamics, vibrations, astrodynamic, dynamic stability analysis, rotating shaft-disc systems, elastic spacecraft dynamics
schlack@engr.wisc.edu,

Oliver Schmitz - Faculty
Professor
Plasma Edge Physics, Plasma Wall Interaction, Three-Dimensional Plasma Edge Transport and Wall Interaction, Helicon Plasma Generation and Sustainment, Active Plasma and Neutral Spectroscopy, Plasma Sources and Diagnostics, Atomic Modeling for Plasma Diagnostics, Laser-Based Plasma Spectroscopy, Next Generation Plasma Wakefield Accelerators
oschmitz@wisc.edu, (608) 265-3633

Donald Schramm - Faculty
Faculty Emeritus
Interdisciplinary Professional Programs, College of Engineering
dschramm@wisc.edu,

Marcel Schreier - Faculty
Richard H. Soit Assistant Professor
Electrochemistry provides fascinating opportunities to interconvert electrical and chemical energy. Our group aims to understand and manipulate the molecular-level processes that take place at electrochemical interfaces, answering questions such as:How does an electric field drive chemical conversion? At which point in a catalytic cycle is ener...
mschreier2@wisc.edu,

Michael J. Schulte - Faculty
Associate Professor
Domain-Specific Processor Design, Reconfigurable Computing, Computer Arithmetic, Computer Architecture, Embedded Systems
schulte@engr.wisc.edu, (608) 262-0206


William Sethares - Faculty
Professor
Signal processing with applications in acoustics, image processing, communications, and optimization.
sethares@wisc.edu, (608) 262-5669
Eric Severson - Faculty
Associate Professor, Grainger Institute Fellow
Electrical and Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering
My research resides at the intersection of electrical, mechanical, and computer engineering, and includes the following thrusts:Design and precision control of electric machines and power electronics, Magnetic levitation (primarily bearingless motors and magnetic bearings), High speed rotors, Flywheel energy storage, Vehicle and hydraulic system electr...
eric.severson@wisc.edu, (608) 890-1301


Vadim Shapiro - Faculty
Bernard A. and Frances M. Weideman Professor Emeritus
Mechanical Engineering, Computer Sciences
Model-Based Engineering, Digital design, manufacturing, and simulation, Geometric, solid, and physical modeling, Cyber-physical systems
vshapiro@engr.wisc.edu, (608) 262-3591



Leyuan Shi - Faculty
Professor
Simulation modeling, large-scale optimization, supply chain optimization, production planning and scheduling
leyuan@engr.wisc.edu, (608) 265-5969


J. Leon Shohet - Faculty
Emeritus Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering
Plasma-aided manufacturing, nonlinear science, effects of vacuum ultraviolet radiation on the processing of electronic materials, biotechnology, especially biomaterials and directed differentiation of stem cells, surface barrier discharges for covalent bonding of biomolecules, controlled fusion
shohet@engr.wisc.edu, (608) 669-7089

Patrick Shriwise - Faculty
Adjunct Professor
Nuclear engineering, Computational geometry, Mesh-based geometry, Ray tracing, Particle transport, High-performance scientific computing, Applied mathematics
shriwise@wisc.edu,

Eric Shusta - Faculty
Howard Curler Distinguished Professor
Chemical and Biological Engineering, Biomedical Engineering
Brain drug delivery, blood-brain barrier modeling, biopharmaceutical design, protein engineering
eshusta@wisc.edu, (608) 265-5103




Matt Sinclair - Faculty
Assistant Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering, Computer Sciences
Computer architecture, heterogeneous systems, computer memory system design, mobile computing, parallel algorithms, processor microarchitecture
msinclair@wisc.edu,
Manish Singh - Faculty
Assistant Professor
Modeling, optimization, and control for power and energy systems, data-based methods
manish.singh@wisc.edu, (608) 262-0287

Melissa Skala - Faculty
Carol Skornicka Chair; Professor
Optical imaging, Tissue engineering, Cancer, Metabolism, Immunology and cancer immunotherapy, Machine Learning, High-throughput tool development, Cell-cell interactions, Cellular heterogeneity, Translational research, Re...
mcskala@wisc.edu, (608) 316-4108


Lloyd M. Smith - Faculty
Professor
Development of novel methods for the analysis and manipulation of nucleic acids, DNA sequence analysis, DNA diagnostics, molecular computing, surface chemistry, fluorescence, mass spectrometry (MALDI and electrospray), robotics/automation and informatics
smith@chem.wisc.edu, (608) 263-2594


Amanda Smith - Faculty
Assistant Teaching Professor
Associate Chair for Undergraduate Affairs
amanda.smith@wisc.edu, (608) 890-3423

Michael J. Smith - Faculty
Professor Emeritus
Human factors and ergonomics, occupational safety, job-related stress, work organization design and management, job design
mjsmith@cae.wisc.edu, (608) 263-6329


James Smith - Faculty
Professor Emeritus
Computer ArchitectureComputational Neuroscience
jes@ece.wisc.edu,

Thomas W. Smith - Faculty
MS, Faculty Emeritus
Interdisciplinary Professional Programs, College of Engineering
Management Systems applied to asset management and sustainability, Organizational strategy for asset management and sustainability, Competency Modelling, Distance Learning
twsmith@wisc.edu,

Gurindar S. Sohi - Faculty
Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering, Computer Sciences
Computer architecture, non-numeric processing, VLSI design, parallel processin
sohi@cs.wisc.edu, (608) 262-7985

Hiroki Sone - Faculty
Associate Professor
Geological Engineering, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Experimental rock mechanics, geomechanics of petroleum and geothermal reservoirs, fault and earthquake mechanics, long-term deformation of shales and fault rocks, in-situ stress and heterogenity, rock physics
hsone@wisc.edu, (608) 890-0531


William C. Sonzogni - Faculty
Professor Emeritus
Civil and Environmental Engineering, Environmental Chemistry and Technology
Environmental toxicology, water resources management, chemical limnology, analytical chemistry of pollutants, fate and transport of toxic contaminants
sonzogni@facstaff.wisc.edu, (608) 224-6200

Carl Sovinec - Faculty
Professor Emeritus
Computational plasma physics--magnetohydrodynamics--numerical methods for partial differential equations
csovinec@wisc.edu,

Saverio E. Spagnolie - Faculty
Professor
Fluid Mechanics, Soft Matter, Biophysics, Applied Mathematics, Numerical Methods
spagnolie@math.wisc.edu, (608) 262-3852


Michael Speidel - Faculty
Associate Professor
X-ray fluoroscopy and angiography, device guidance during cardiac interventions, dose reduction, scanning-beam digital x-ray (SBDX) technology, Research at the UW
speidel@wisc.edu, (608) 263-6795


Kumar Sridharan - Faculty
Grainger Professor; Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor,
Departments of Nuclear Engineering & Engineering Physics and Materials Science & Engineering
Nuclear Engineering and Engineering Physics, Materials Science and Engineering
Nuclear reactor materials research and development, Irradiation effects in materials, Corrosion of materials, High temperature materials, Physical metallurgy and mechanical behavior of materials, Ion implantation and plasma-assisted thin film deposition of materials, Surface modifications and coatings including nanoscale processes and materials, Emergi...
kumar.sridharan@wisc.edu, (608) 263-4789


Harold Steudel - Faculty
Professor Emeritus
Development of statistical modeling, analysis and management techniques for the design and improvement of manufacturing systems such areas as the design, evaluation and management of continuous flow/cellular manufacturing systems for just-in-time (JIT) operations., Design and implementation of quality management systems in health care and manufacturing...
steudel@ie.engr.wisc.edu, (608) 262-9927


Donald Stone - Faculty
Professor and Associate Chair of Graduate Studies
Metals and alloys, ceramics, polymers, composites, amorphous alloys, biological materials, thin films, microscopic specimens, kinetics, thermodynamics, mechanical properties: creep, plasticity, fracture, scale effects
dsstone@wisc.edu,

Nathan Strachen - Faculty
Assistant Teaching Professor
Electrically small antennas, underwater and underground communications, magnetic sensing for biomedical applications, pedagogy
Strachen@wisc.edu,

Darilis Suarez-Gonzalez - Faculty
Associate Chair of the Masters Degree Program and Teaching Faculty II


Aaron Suminski - Faculty
Senior Scientist
Neural Control of Upper Limb Movement, Brain-Machine Interface, Functional Neuroimaging, Development of MR Compatible Devices
asuminski@wisc.edu, (608) 263-6963

Haihan Sun - Faculty
Assistant Professor
Antennas, surface-penetrating radar, microwave sensing, non-destructive testing
haihan.sun@wisc.edu,

Krishnan Suresh - Faculty
Mead Witter Foundation Professor
Mechanical Engineering, Nuclear Engineering and Engineering Physics
Topology Optimization, Design for Additive Manufacturing, Computational Mechanics, High-Peformance Computing, Advanced Finite Element Analysis, Finite Element Mesh Generation
ksuresh@wisc.edu, (608) 262-3594

Rajan Suri - Faculty
Professor Emeritus
Industrial and Systems Engineering, Interdisciplinary Professional Programs
Lead time reduction and quick response manufacturing, POLCA and other alternatives to Kanban for material control, queuing network models for manufacturing systems analysi
rajan.suri@wisc.edu, (608) 262-2686

Masatoshi Suzuki - Faculty
Professor
Applications of stem cell technology for neuromusuclar and musculoskeletal diseases, bioengineered in vitro modeling to understand skeletal muscle biology and diseases, regenerative medicine, cell-based therapy, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)masatoshi.suzuki@wisc.edu, (608) 262-4264

Ross E. Swaney - Faculty
Associate Professor
Process systems design, modeling, and optimization. Process modeling with guaranteed convergence. Flowsheet synthesis of separation processes.
ross.swaney@wisc.edu, (608) 262-3641

Izabela Szlufarska - Faculty
Harvey D. Spangler Professor of Engineering and Department Chair
Materials Science and Engineering, Nuclear Engineering and Engineering Physics
Computational materials science, Mechanical behavior at the nanoscale, Defect behavior in semiconductors and insulators under irradiation, Solid/liquid interfaces, Nucleation and kinetics of medium range order in bulk metallic glasses
szlufarska@wisc.edu, (608) 262-1821