Faculty/Staff Directory Index
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Alphabetic Faculty Profiles


Michael Wagner - Faculty
Charles Ringrose Assistant Professor
Renewable technology systems modeling and simulation, Energy storage dispatch optimization , High-temperature power generation technology design, Concentrating optics, Hybrid generation systems, Battery testing, Prof. Wagner on YouTube: https://youtu.be/4ceJNOPSSqEmjwagner2@wisc.edu, +16088901910
Fabian Waleffe - Faculty
Professor
Mechanical Engineering, Nuclear Engineering and Engineering Physics
Fluid dynamics, bifurcations and turbulence, scientific computing
fabian.waleffe@wisc.edu, (608) 263-3269


Xudong Wang - Faculty
Professor and Associate Chair of Named MS Studies
Materials Science and Engineering, Biomedical Engineering
Oxide nanomaterials growth and characterization, Piezoelectric nanostructures and nanodevices for mechanical energy harvesting, Semiconductor nanomaterials and devices for solar energy harvesting and energy storage, Nanoscale piezoelectric effect and piezotronics, Piezocatalysis and interface between piezoelectricity and electrochemistry
xudong@engr.wisc.edu, (608) 890-2667


Bu Wang - Faculty
Associate Professor
Civil and Environmental Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering
Bu leads the Sustainable Materials Innovation Lab in the CEE department (SMIL-CEE). The lab's mission is to develop innovative and interdisciplinary technological solutions to address the urgent need for sustainable civil engineering materials.Current projects in the lab include:bu.wang@wisc.edu, (608) 262-8698

Herbert F. Wang - Faculty
Professor
Poroelastic behavior of fracture rock, numerical modeling of fluid flow, thermal history, and chemical diffusion related to geologic processes
wang@geology.wisc.edu, (608) 262-5932

Ying Wang - Faculty
Dugald C. Jackson Assistant Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering, College of Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering
2D/quantum material physics and their device applications including advanced optoelectronics and information storage. And the exploration on quantum behaviors in such material systems can potentially extend current information technology beyond classic limit. Currently looking for graduate students/postdoc/undergraduates who are interested ...
y.wang@wisc.edu,

Wei Wang - Faculty
Assistant Professor
Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering
Marine Robots, Bioinspired Robots, Modular Robots, Dynamics and Control, Underwater Perception
wwang745@wisc.edu, (608) 263-2471
Andi Wang - Faculty
Assistant Professor
The mission of Andi Wang’s research is to develop principled methodologies of data mining and machine learning for science and engineering applications, especially system and process improvement. Dr. Wang's research aims to push the boundary and promote the application of data science methods in facilitating the advancement of engineering industr...
andi.wang@wisc.edu,

Maurice B. Webb - Faculty
Professor Emeritus
Surface physics, low-energy electron diffraction, scanning tunneling microscop
mbwebb@comb.physics.wisc.edu, (608) 262-3305


Haoran Wei - Faculty
Assistant Professor
1. Optical sensors for emerging contaminant detection2. Vibrational spectroscopy for in situ characterization of environmental systems3. Point-of-use water treatment technologies
haoran.wei3@wisc.edu,

Douglas Weibel - Faculty
Professor
Biomedical Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering
Soft materials, Micro- and nanofabrication, Microbiology, Chemical biology, Biotechnology
douglas.weibel@wisc.edu, (608) 890-1342

Richard Weiland - Faculty
Adjunct Professor
Construction management, AEC business organization, and performance metrics.
rcweiland@wisc.edu,
Jon Wellik - Faculty
Program Director,
Maintenance and Reliability Management Certificate & Technical Leadership Certificate

Amy Wendt - Faculty
Professor and Associate Vice Chancellor for Research in the Physical Sciences
Electrical and Computer Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering
Amy Wendt is a professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at UW-Madison, where she has been a faculty member since 1990. Her research focus is ionized gas discharges for technological applications. Understanding the behavior of low-temperature plasmas, how they interact with materials substrates and implications for process and s...
wendt@engr.wisc.edu, (608) 262-8407

Andrew Wentland - Faculty
MD, Assistant Professor
Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Medical Imaging, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Renal Cell Carcinoma, Research at the UW
alwentland@wisc.edu, (608) 265-2021

Nicole Werner - Faculty
Associate Professor
Human Factors and Ergonomics (HFE) for health care systems and patient safety, Care transitions across health care systems, Consumer health informatics, Health information technology, Health care delivery at home, HFE applications in Gerontology, Health care collaborative work and multiple task management
nwerner3@wisc.edu, (608) 890-2578

Tosha Wetterneck - Faculty
MD, MS
Health information technology design, implementation and use and the impact on clinicians and patient outcomes, The basic science of Primary Care, Medication safety
tbw@medicine.wisc.edu, (608) 890-2110

John G. White - Faculty
Professor Emeritus
I started my graduate studies at the Laboratory of Molecular Biology to work on computer-aided reconstruction of the nervous system of the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans with Sydney Brenner. Together with my collaborators, we obtained the complete synaptic circuitry of the hermaphrodite (the connectome) and then went on to identify gene...
jwhite1@wisc.edu, (608) 265-4813

Oliver Wieben - Faculty
Associate Professor
Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Cardiovascular MRI, Rapid Imaging, Image Reconstruction from undersampled data, Quantitative Flow Imaging, Quantifying hemodynamics from MRI data, Motion detection and correction
owieben@wisc.edu, (608) 263-0793

Douglas Wiegmann - Faculty
Professor
Associate Chair for Graduate Affairs
Cognitive Systems Engineering, System Safety, Accident Investigation, Human Error Analysis, Aviation, Healthcare
dawiegmann@wisc.edu, (608) 890-1932


Rebecca Willett - Faculty
Associate Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering, College of Engineering, Industrial and Systems Engineering, Computer Sciences
Signal Processing, Image Processing, Machine Learning, Optimization, Point Processes, High-dimensional Statistics
willett@discovery.wisc.edu,


Justin Williams - Faculty
Vilas Distinguished Achievemet and Harvey D. Spangler Professor
Biomedical Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering
Neural Engineering, BioMEMS, Microfluidics, Bio-fluidic interactions, Neural Rehabilitation, Neural Prostheses, Research at UW
jwilliams@engr.wisc.edu, (608) 265-3952

Paul P.H. Wilson - Faculty
Department Chair, Grainger Professor of Nuclear Engineering
Monte Carlo methods, Nuclear fuel cycles, Energy policy, Proliferation analysis, Transmutation/depletion/activation
paul.wilson@wisc.edu, (608) 263-0807

Michael Winokur - Faculty
Professor
Conducting polymers, phase transitions, structure of linear and branched macromolecular hosts
mwinokur@wisc.edu, (608) 263-7475

Robert J. Witt - Faculty
Associate Professor
Computational methods in fluid and solid mechanics
witt@engr.wisc.edu, (608) 263-2760

Colleen Witzenburg - Faculty
Jane R. and Jack G. Mandula Assistant Professor
Biomedical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering
- Cardiovascular Biomechanics and Physiology, Computational Modeling, Tissue Growth, Remodeling, and Failure, Soft tissue Characterization and Mechanical Testing, Congenital Heart Disease, witzenburg@wisc.edu, (608) 890-3332

Amy C.L. Wong - Faculty
Professor
Biofilm formation and control., Identification, characterization and detection of enterotoxins of Bacillus cereus and Staphylococcus aureau.
acwong@facstaff.wisc.edu, (608) 263-1168

David Wood - Faculty
Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering, Computer Sciences
We have also developed a new memory system simulation method that optimizes the common case---cache hits---significantly reducing simulation time. Fast-Cache tightly integrates reference generation and simulation by providing the abstraction of tagged memory blocks: each reference invokes a user-specified function depending upon the reference type and ...
david@cs.wisc.edu, (608) 263-7463

Adelle Wright - Faculty
Assistant Professor
Magnetohydrodynamics, stellarators and fusion energy, high performance scientific computing, nonlinear and dynamical systems, policy and science diplomacy.
adelle.wright@wisc.edu, (608) 890-1619

Stephen J. Wright - Faculty
Professor
Industrial and Systems Engineering, Computer Sciences
Optimization and its Applications in all areas of Science and Engineering.
swright@cs.wisc.edu, (608) 262-4838

Daniel Wright - Faculty
Arno Lenz Memorial Associate Professor of Water Resources Engineering
Civil and Environmental Engineering, Freshwater and Marine Sciences
Satellite and ground-based rainfall remote sensing, Rainfall and flood processes at urban and regional scales, Computationally-intensive simulation for probabilistic natural hazards risk assessment, Statistical, stochastic, and physical hydrology, Modernization of stormwater and flood management theory and practice
danielb.wright@wisc.edu, (608) 262-1978

Jinlong Wu - Faculty
Assistant Professor
Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering
Scientific Machine Learning, Bayesian Inference, Data Assimilation, Dynamical Systems, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Stochastic Processes, Uncertainty Quantification
jinlong.wu@wisc.edu,

Chin H Wu - Faculty
Professor
Civil and Environmental Engineering, Geological Engineering, Freshwater and Marine Sciences
Coastal processes, engineering, resilience, and sustainability, Environmental & ecological fluid mechanics/hydraulics, Restoration and rehabilitation of aquatic systems (river/stream, lake, and wetland), Green Infrastructure, low impact development, and sustainable urban planning and development, Risk assessment and resilience for extreme even...
chinwu@engr.wisc.edu, (608) 263-3078