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Alphabetic Faculty Profiles

Michael Wagner - Faculty


Assistant Professor


Coupled energy systems modeling and simulation, Renewable electricity generation technology performance characterization and software tool development, Energy storage dispatch optimization , High-temperature power generation technology design, Concentrating optics
mike.wagner@wisc.edu, +16088901910


Fabian Waleffe - Faculty


Professor


Fluid dynamics, bifurcations and turbulence, scientific computing
fabian.waleffe@wisc.edu, (608) 263-3269


Ken A Walz - Faculty


Adjunct Professor


kawaltz@wisc.edu,


Xudong Wang - Faculty


Professor and Associate Chair of Named MS Studies


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


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


Xin Wang - Faculty


Assistant Professor


Industrial and Systems Engineering, Civil and Environmental Engineering

xin.wang@wisc.edu, (608) 890-3913


Bu Wang - Faculty


Assistant Professor, Grainger Institute for Engineering Fellow


Civil and Environmental Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering

CO2 capture and utilization; Computation-guided material engineering
bu.wang@wisc.edu, (608) 262-8698


Ying Wang - Faculty


Assistant Professor


Electrical and Computer Engineering, College of 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,


Maurice B. Webb - Faculty


Professor Emeritus


Surface physics, low-energy electron diffraction, scanning tunneling microscop
mbwebb@comb.physics.wisc.edu, (608) 262-3305


John G 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
john.webster@wisc.edu, (608) 263-1574


Haoran Wei - Faculty


Assistant Professor


Civil and Environmental Engineering, Environmental Chemistry and Technology

1. Optical sensors for emerging contaminant detection2. Photothermal and photocatalytic technologies for water treatment 3. Surface chemistry of engineered nanoparticles in natural and engineered water systems
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,


Amy E. Wendt - Faculty


Professor


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


Nicole Werner - Faculty


Harvey D. Spangler Assistant 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 A. Wiegmann - Faculty


Associate Professor


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 Achievement Professor


Biomedical Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering

Neural Engineering, Functional Neurosurgery, BioMEMS, Neural Rehabilitation, Neural Prostheses, Applied Neuroscience
jwilliams@engr.wisc.edu, (608) 265-3952


Scott Williams - Faculty


Assistant Faculty Associate


spwilliams@wisc.edu,


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


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


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


Assistant Professor


Floods and other hydroclimate extremes; Flood risk estimation and management; Measurement and modeling of extreme rainfall using ground-based and satellite-based sensors; The role of rainfall variability as a driver of floods and other watershed functions; climate change impacts on extreme weather; computationally-intensive natural hazards modeling; st...
danielb.wright@wisc.edu, (608) 262-1978


Chin 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), Hydrologic/hydraulic modeling for sustainable urban planning and development and flood risk assessment, Risk assessment and resilience for ex...
chinwu@engr.wisc.edu, (608) 263-3078


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