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Alphabetic Faculty Profiles

Nasia Safdar - Faculty


Associate Professor


ns2@medicine.wisc.edu, (608) 263-1545


Krishanu Saha - Faculty


Assistant 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, (608) 262-6490


Jay M. Samuel - Faculty


Senior Lecturer


Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering

    metal forming, welding and joining processes, materials engineering
    samuel@engr.wisc.edu, (608) 262-0922


Joshua San Miguel - Faculty


Assistant Professor


Approximate computing, processor microarchitecture, intermittent computing, energy-harvesting IoT devices, branch prediction, value prediction, cache architectures, networks-on-chip.
jsanmiguel@wisc.edu,


Scott T. Sanders - Faculty


Professor


Mechanical Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Swept-wavelength sources, advanced spectrometers, hyperspectral imaging, optical sensors, piston and aeropropulsion engines
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 I. 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


Suzannah Sandrik - Faculty


Faculty Associate


sandrik@engr.wisc.edu, (608) 262-0764


Karthikeyan Sankaralingam - Faculty


Assistant Professor


Electrical and Computer Engineering, Computer Sciences

karu@cs.wisc.edu, (608) 890-0121


John Santarius - Faculty


Research Professor Emeritus


santarius@engr.wisc.edu, (608) 263-1694


Bulent Sarlioglu - Faculty


Associate Professor


Engineering Professional Development, Electrical and Computer 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


Mohamed Sawan - Faculty


Research Professor Emeritus


sawan@engr.wisc.edu, (608) 263-5093


Akbar M. Sayeed - Faculty


Professor


Wireless communication and sensing, signal processing, communication and information theory, multipath propagation channels, time-frequency analysis, applications and technology transfer
akbar.sayeed@wisc.edu, (608) 265-4731


Raluca Scarlat - Faculty


Assistant Professor


Engineering Physics, Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering

Heat and mass transport, nuclear reactor safety, thermal-hydraulics, fluoride-salt cooled high temperature reactors (FHR), tritium transport and salt electrochemistry, salt freezing and overcooling transients, severe accident analysis, engineering ethics.  
roscarlat@wisc.edu, (608) 890-4256


Frank L. Scarpace - Faculty


Professor Emeritus


Image processing, remote sensing
scarpace@facstaff.wisc.edu, (608) 263-3973


John E. 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, (608) 263-1614


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 desgined 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


Associate Professor


Plasma Edge Physics, Plasma Wall Interaction, Three-Dimensional Plasma Edge Transport and Wall Interaction, Active Plasma and Neutral Spectroscopy, Plasma Sources and Diagnostics
oschmitz@wisc.edu, (608) 263-1547


Donald Schramm - Faculty


Faculty Associate/Program Director Emeritus


Architectural lighting/daylighting, building energy systems, creativity, distance learning, disaster/refugee emergency management, international engineering, professional practice, team building
dschramm@wisc.edu, (608) 263-7757


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


Mary Elizabeth Sesto - Faculty


Assistant Professor


Biomedical Engineering, Orthopedics and Rehabilitation, Industrial and Systems Engineering

msesto@wisc.edu, (608) 263-5697


William A. Sethares - Faculty


Professor


Signal processing with applications in acoustics, image processing, communications, and optimization.
sethares@wisc.edu, (608) 262-5669


Eric L Severson - Faculty


Assistant Professor, Grainger Institute Fellow


Currently seeking graduate students and post-docs who have prior hardware experienceDesign and control of electric machines and power electronics, Magnetic levitation: bearingless motors and magnetic bearings, High switching frequencies and rotational speeds, Flywheel energy storage, Sustainable generation and efficient energy...
eric.severson@wisc.edu, (608) 890-1301


Dhavan V. Shah - Faculty


Professor


dshah@facstaff.wisc.edu, (608) 262-0388


Vadim Shapiro - Faculty


Bernard A. and Frances M. Weideman Professor


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


Mike Shapiro - Faculty


Assistant Faculty Associate


Technical Communication Certificate Program, College of Engineering

mshapiro2@wisc.edu,


Tim Shedd - Faculty


Associate Professor


Fuel delivery systems, Immersion Lithography, Contact line modeling, Sprays and spray impingement cooling, Electronics cooling, Flow visualization and optical measurement techniques, Two-phase heat transfer, Multiphase flows
shedd@engr.wisc.edu, (608) 265-2930


Andrew I. Sheinis - Faculty


Assistant Professor


sheinis@astro.wisc.edu, (608) 262-0492


Leyuan Shi - Faculty


Professor


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


Kevin J. Shinners - Faculty


Professor


Mechanical Engineering, Engineering Development Office

kjshinne@facstaff.wisc.edu, (608) 263-0756


J. Leon Shohet - Faculty


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) 262-1191


Eric V. 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


Daniel Sidney - Faculty


Assistant Visiting Scientist


dsidney@wisc.edu,


Karl A. Sillay - Faculty


Assistant Professor


k.sillay@neurosurg.wisc.edu, 6082630485,6082632206


Melissa Skala - Faculty


Associate Professor


Biophotonics, Cancer, Metabolism, Molecular imaging, Multiscale Imaging, Optical imaging, Translational research, Vasculature
mcskala@wisc.edu, (608) 316-4108


Bart Skarzynski - Faculty


Assistant Faculty Associate


bskarzynski@wisc.edu, (608) 262-5171


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


James E. Smith - Faculty


Emeritus Professor


Computer Architecture, High performance processor and system implementations, Virtual machines, Power effecient processors
jes@ece.wisc.edu, (608) 265-5737


Leslie M. Smith - Faculty


Professor


Engineering Physics, Mechanical Engineering

Statistical physics, turbulence and turbulence modeling for engineering and geophysical applications, applied mathematics, stability theory and fluid dynamics, field theoretical techniques, the dynamic renormalization group and universality in complex systems
lsmith@math.wisc.edu, (608) 262-3852


Thomas W. Smith - Faculty


Faculty Associate/Program Director


Management Systems applied to asset management and sustainability, Organizational strategy for asset management and sustainability, Competency Modelling, Distance Learning
twsmith@wisc.edu, (608) 263-7426


Maureen A. Smith - Faculty


Associate Professor


maureensmith@wisc.edu, (608) 262-4802


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


Elizabeth T. Smith - Faculty


Assistant Professor


Smith is working to examine novel materials processing applications for lasers.Research is in areas such as electronics manufacturing--looking at the joining of dissimilar metals and examining flux-less soldering, the surface texturing of magnetic disks, and novel micr, Professor Smith's research interests and activities are in two principal areas: las...
etsmith@engr.wisc.edu, (608) 265-6366


James Smith - Faculty


Professor Emeritus


Electrical and Computer Engineering, College of Engineering

Computer ArchitectureVirtual MachinesComputational Neuroscience
jes@ece.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


Assistant 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


Thomas and Suzanne Werner Professor


Computational plasma physics--computational fluid dynamics--magnetohydrodynamics--numerical methods for partial differential equations
csovinec@wisc.edu, (608) 263-5525


Saverio E. Spagnolie - Faculty


Assistant Professor


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


Edgar Spalding - Faculty


Professor


spalding@wisc.edu, (608) 265-5294


Kumar Sridharan - Faculty


Distinguished Research Professor, Fellow of American Society for Materials,
Fellow of Institute of Materials, London, UK


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@engr.wisc.edu, (608) 263-4789


Linsey Steege - Faculty


Assistant Professor


lsteege@wisc.edu, (608) 263-5191


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


Warren E. Stewart - Faculty


Professor Emeritus


Parameter estimation and model discrimination, computational modeling, chemical reactors, fractionation systems, transport phenomena
,


Donald Stone - Faculty


Professor


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, (608) 262-8791


Richard J. Straub - Faculty


Professor


Agricultural machinery and power systems, forage harvesting, post-harvest processing of agricultural and biological materials, machine desi
rjstraub@facstaff.wisc.edu, (608) 262-2757


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


Krishnan Suresh - Faculty


Phil and Jean Myers Professor


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


Lead time reduction and quick response manufacturing, POLCA and other alternatives to Kanban for material control, queuing network models for manufacturing systems analysi
suri@engr.wisc.edu, (608) 262-0921


Masatoshi Suzuki - Faculty


Associate Professor


Our long-term objective is to apply stem cell technology to expand integrative sciences in both basic and translational research. The current research focuses on elucidating mechanisms of brain development in mammals using stem cells and finding possible applications of these cells for neuromuscular disorders such as 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


Tim Peter Szczykutowicz - Faculty


Assistant Professor


tszczykutowicz@uwhealth.org, (608) 263-5729


Izabela Szlufarska - Faculty


Harvey D. Spangler Professor of Engineering


Materials Science and Engineering, 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) 265-5878


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