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Alphabetic Faculty Profiles

Graham Wabiszewski - Faculty


Assistant Teaching Professor


gwabiszewski@wisc.edu, (608) 262-7337


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


Michael Walters - Faculty


Adjunct Professor



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


Data-driven modeling for start manufacturing, production and industrial AI, system informatics
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


John Webster - Faculty


Professor Emeritus


Medical instrumentation, implantable intracranial pressure monitor, safety of less-lethal electromuscular incapacitation device (EMD): stun guns and Tasers, biopotential amplifiers and interference, bioelectrodes, sleep apnea device
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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


Christa Wille - Faculty


Teaching Faculty I



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,


Scott Williams - Faculty


Assistant Faculty Associate



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


William Wuellner - Faculty


Adjunct Professor