Department Chair

John H. Booske
Duane H. and Dorothy M. Bluemke Professor, Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor
Contact: booske@engr.wisc.edu, (608) 890-0804
Also: Materials Science and Engineering
Research interests: Plasmas, metamaterials, metasurfaces and media that have a strong interaction with electromagnetic radiation, especially in the rf-to-microwave-to-terahertz frequency regimes. , electromagnetic field effec...
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Faculty

Mark C. Allie
Faculty Associate
Contact: allie@engr.wisc.edu, (608) 262-3618
Also: College of Engineering
Research interests: Active Sound and Vibration Control.Sound Systems.Speaker System Design.
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David T. Anderson
Jim and Anne Sorden Professor
Contact: dtanders@facstaff.wisc.edu, (608) 262-0172
Research interests: Plasmas and controlled fusion, electromagnetic fields and waves, magnet design, plasma transport and heating in torodial systems
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Other affiliations: Physics

B Ross Barmish
Professor
Contact: barmish@engr.wisc.edu
Research interests:
- Modelling of Financial Markets, Computational Finance, Algorithmic Trading Systems, Optimization and Convexity, Applied Probability, Computational Complexity, Robustness of Sy...
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Nader Behdad
Professor
Contact: behdad@wisc.edu, (608) 262-8804
Research interests: Mechanically-Tunable Antennas and Periodic Structures
Origami electromagnetic structures, Foldable electromagnetic devices, Using stretching, deformation, or flexure to design reconfirugrable antennas, met...
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Nigel Boston
Professor
Contact: boston@engr.wisc.edu, (608) 265-3817
Also: College of Engineering, Computer Sciences
Research interests: Cryptography, Coding theory, Biometrics, Digital watermarking, Applications of algebra to EE, CS, and Math Dept.
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Other affiliations: Computational Sciences Cluster, Mathematics, UW ECE Face Recognition Group

Dan Botez
Philip Dunham Reed Professor
Contact: botez@engr.wisc.edu, (608) 265-4643
Also: Materials Science and Engineering
Research interests: High-power, spatially coherent semiconductor lasers, Photonic Crystal semiconductor lasers for high coherent-power generation, Quantum Cascade lasers
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Azadeh Davoodi
Associate Professor
Contact: adavoodi@wisc.edu, (608) 265-1145
Research interests: Electronic Design Automation, System-level CAD for emerging nanotechnologies, Automation for post-Silicon debug of Integrated Circuits, Hardware security
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Christopher L. Demarco
Grainger Professor of Power Engineering
Contact: demarco@engr.wisc.edu, (608) 262-5546
Research interests: Computational complexity in computer-aided control analysis, nonlinear dynamics, electric power system stability, control systems, power systems
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Robert M. Farrell
Assistant Professor
Contact: robert.farrell@wisc.edu
Research interests: Wide bandgap semiconductor materials and devices, Power electronic devices, Light-emitting diodes and laser diodes, Solar cells and photodetectors, Metalorganic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD)
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Kassem Fawaz
Assistant Professor
Contact: kfawaz@wisc.edu, (608) 890-0529
Research interests: Mobile Systems Security and Privacy, Internet of Things, Usable Privacy and Security, Location Privacy, Ubiquitous Computing.
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Steven Fredette
Faculty Associate
Contact: fredette@wisc.edu, (608) 609-7911
Research interests: Power electronics hardware and control, Electric machines and control, Alternative energy such as wind and solar
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John Gubner
Professor
Contact: John.Gubner@wisc.edu, (608) 263-1471
Research interests: Ultra-wideband communications, point processes and shot noise, subspace methods in statistical signal processing, information theory.
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Susan Hagness
Philip Dunham Reed Professor
Contact: susan.hagness@wisc.edu, (608) 265-5739
Also: Biomedical Engineering
Research interests: Bioelectromagnetics, computational electromagnetics, dielectric spectroscopy, FDTD theory and applications, including multi-physics solvers, microwave diagnostic and therapeutic techniques for biological and me...
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Other affiliations: University of Wisconsin Comprehensive Cancer Center
William N. Hitchon
Professor
Contact: whitchon@yahoo.com, (608) 262-2501
Also: Materials Science and Engineering
Research interests: Plasma processing, computational modeling, semiconductors
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Eric Hoffman
Faculty Associate
Contact: erichoffman@wisc.edu, (608) 212-3461
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Yu Hen Hu
Professor
Contact: hu@engr.wisc.edu, (608) 262-6724
Research interests: Design and implementation of signal processing algorithms, Computer aided design and physical design of VLSI,, Applications of pattern classification and machine learning algorithms to signal processing, Image ...
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Other affiliations: Computer Sciences

Thomas M. Jahns
Grainger Professor of Power Electronics and Electrical Machines
Contact: jahns@engr.wisc.edu, (608) 262-5702
Research interests: Power electronics, electric machines and actuators, adjustable-speed drives, brushless motor drives and generators, automotive and aerospace electric systems
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Hongrui Jiang
Lynn H. Matthias Professor in Engineering & Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor
Contact: hongrui@engr.wisc.edu, (608) 265-9418
Also: Biomedical Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering
Research interests: MicroElectroMechanical System, Microsensors and microactuators, BioMEMS and micro-optics, Microfluidics, Lab on chips, Biomimetics and bioinspiration
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Varun Jog
Assistant Professor
Contact: vjog@wisc.edu
Research interests: Information theory, network science, convex geometry
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Mikhail A. Kats
Assistant Professor
Contact: mkats@wisc.edu, (608) 890-3984
Also: Materials Science and Engineering
Research interests: Optics and photonics; plasmonics; optoelectronics; light harvesting; device physics; nanoscale science. For detailed information please see my Extended Homepage (ht...
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Younghyun Kim
Assistant Professor
Contact: younghyun.kim@wisc.edu, (608) 262-6419
Research interests: Medical device security, Powering the Internet-of-Things, Hybrid energy storage systems, Efficient energy harvesting, Embedded system power management
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Irena Knezevic
Patricia and Michael Splinter Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering
Contact: irena.knezevic@wisc.edu, (608) 890-3383
Also: Materials Science and Engineering
Research interests: Quantum and semiclassical electronic transport in semiconductor nanostructures, Heat transport at the nanoscale. Nanostructured thermoelectrics, Decoherence and relaxation in nanostructures; transient and high-...
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Other affiliations: Physics

Joe Krachey
Faculty Associate
Contact: jkrachey@wisc.edu, (608) 265-9007
Research interests: Embedded Systems Design I am not currently involved in research.
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Bernard Lesieutre
Professor
Contact: lesieutre@engr.wisc.edu, (608) 890-1883
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Laurent Lessard
Assistant Professor
Contact: laurent.lessard@wisc.edu, (608) 890-2635
Also: Computer Sciences
Research interests: Control theory, large scale/decentralized systems, nonlinear/robust control, optimization. For more detail about my research interests and current projects, see my ...
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Jing Li
Assistant Professor, Dugald C. Jackson Faculty Scholar
Contact: jli@ece.wisc.edu, (608) 890-3975
Also: Computer Sciences
Research interests: General interest: developing new computing paradigm driven either by technologies (from bottom-up) or by workloads (from top-dow...
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Mikko Lipasti
Philip Dunham Reed Professor
Contact: mikko@engr.wisc.edu, (608) 265-2639
Research interests: Projects include: reliable and power-efficient processors and systems, reverse-engineering the human neocortex, Electrical and Nanophotonic On-chip Interconnection Networks, Commercial Workload Development and ...
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Po-ling Loh
Assistant Professor
Contact: loh@ece.wisc.edu
Also: Industrial and Systems Engineering
Research interests: high-dimensional statistics, (non)convex optimization, graphical models, causal inference, information theory, network inference, robust statistics
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Daniel Ludois
Assistant Professor, Dugald C. Jackson Faculty Scholar
Contact: ludois@wisc.edu, 262-8211
Also: Engineering Physics
Research interests: Power electronics, Electric machines, Non-contact power transfer, Sustainable engineering technologies and practices, See Extended Homepage
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Other affiliations: Wisconsin Electric Machines and Power Electronics Consortium

Zhenqiang Ma
Lynn H. Matthias Professor in Engineering & Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor
Contact: mazq (at) engr dot wisc dot edu, (608) 261-1095
Also: College of Engineering, Engineering Physics, Materials Science and Engineering
Research interests: Current Research Pursuits:Lattice mis-matched semiconductor heterostructures: materials, physics and related various device applications, Flexible/stretchable/wearable electronics/optoelectronics, Bioelectronic...
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Other affiliations: Wisconsin Energy Institute
Luke Mawst
Professor
Contact: mawst@engr.wisc.edu, (608) 263-1705
Also: Materials Science and Engineering
Research interests: Semiconductor lasers, metalorganic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD) growth of semiconductors, III/V compound semiconductor materials and devices
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Paul H. Milenkovic
Associate Professor
Contact: milenkovic@engr.wisc.edu, (608) 262-3892
Research interests: Digital signal processing, acoustic analysis of speech, speech synthesis, More recently, I am applying concepts from Electrical Engineering non-linear system theory to robotic manipulators and related mechanica...
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Srdjan Milicic
Faculty Associate
Contact: smilicic.at.engr.wisc.edu, (608) 265-2982
Research interests: Solid state semiconductor devices; Clean room semiconductor processing;
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Katherine Morrow
Associate Professor
Contact: klmorrow@wisc.edu, (608) 265-3917
Research interests: Reconfigurable computer architectures, automated design for reconfigurable computing, operating system support for heterogeneous computing, systems-on-a-chip (SoCs)
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Robert Nowak
McFarland-Bascom Professor in Engineering
Contact: nowak@ece.wisc.edu, (608) 265-3914
Also: Biomedical Engineering, Computer Sciences
Research interests: Signal and information processing, machine learning, optimization and statistics
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Dimitris Papailiopoulos
Assistant Professor
Contact: dimitris@ece.wisc.edu
Research interests:
- machine learning, coding theory, parallel and distributed algorithms
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Parameswaran (Parmesh) Ramanathan
Professor, Vice Chair of Infrastructure
Contact: parmesh.ramanathan@wisc.edu, (608) 263-0557
Also: Computer Sciences
Research interests: Wireless and Wireline Networks, Mobile Computing, Real-time Systems, Fault-tolerant Computing, Parallel Processing, Distributed Systems
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Other affiliations: Genome Sciences Training Program

Joshua San Miguel
Assistant Professor
Contact: jsanmiguel@wisc.edu
Research interests: Approximate computing, processor microarchitecture, intermittent computing, energy-harvesting IoT devices, branch prediction, value prediction, cache architectures, networks-on-chip.
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Akbar M. Sayeed
Professor
Contact: akbar.sayeed@wisc.edu, (608) 265-4731
Research interests: Wireless communication and sensing, signal processing, communication and information theory, multipath propagation channels, time-frequency analysis, applications and technology transfer
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William A. Sethares
Professor
Contact: sethares@wisc.edu, (608) 262-5669
Research interests: Signal processing with applications in acoustics, image processing, communications, and optimization.
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Eric L Severson
Assistant Professor, Grainger Institute Fellow
Contact: eric.severson@wisc.edu, (608) 890-1301
Research interests: Currently seeking graduate students and post-docs who have prior hardware experienceDesign and control of electric machines and power electronics, Magnetic levitation: bearingless moto...
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J. Leon Shohet
Professor
Contact: shohet@engr.wisc.edu, (608) 262-1191
Also: Materials Science and Engineering
Research interests: Plasma-aided manufacturing, nonlinear science, effects of vacuum ultraviolet radiation on the processing of electronic materials, biotechnology, especially biomaterials and directed differentiation of stem cell...
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Daniel Van-der-weide
Professor
Contact: danvdw@engr.wisc.edu, (608) 265-6561
Also: Biomedical Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering
Research interests: Multifunctional scanned probe microscopy, Localized spectroscopy of biological and low-dimensional electronic systems, Terahertz circuits and devices
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Barry Vanveen
Lynn H. Matthias Professor
Contact: vanveen@engr.wisc.edu, (608) 265-2488
Also: Biomedical Engineering
Research interests: Statistical signal processing algorithm development and analysis, signal processing for sensor arrays, biomedical applications of signal processing, signal processing for study of brain networks from electric a...
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Andreas Velten
Assistant Professor
Contact: velten@wisc.edu, (505) 417-4710
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Giri Venkataramanan
Professor
Contact: giri@engr.wisc.edu, (608) 262-4479
Research interests: Electrical power conversion, AC power flow control, design of power converters, distributed generation, power converter architecture, power converter packaging
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Other affiliations: Wisconsin Electric Machines and Power Electronics Consortium

Amy E. Wendt
Professor
Contact: wendt@engr.wisc.edu, (608) 262-8407
Also: Materials Science and Engineering
Research interests: 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 app...
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Rebecca Willett
Associate Professor
Contact: willett@discovery.wisc.edu
Also: College of Engineering, Industrial and Systems Engineering, Computer Sciences
Research interests: Signal Processing, Image Processing, Machine Learning, Optimization, Point Processes, High-dimensional Statistics
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Other affiliations: Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery

Zongfu Yu
Dugald C. Jackson Assistant Professor
Contact: zyu54@wisc.edu, (608) 263-1643
Also: Materials Science and Engineering
Research interests: Photonics; Machine Vision; Deep learning in Robotics; Computational Electrodynamics; Quantum Optics; Airborne Wind Energy; Topological Photo...
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Adjunct/Affiliate


Suman Banerjee
Associate Professor (Affiliate)
Contact: suman@cs.wisc.edu, (608) 262-7387
Research interests: Networking and Distributed Systems, protocols, algorithms and architectures of such systems, peer-to-peer systems, multicast services, network security, services for mobile and wireless networks and network mea...
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Mark D. Hill
Professor
Contact: markhill@cs.wisc.edu, (608) 262-2196
Also: Computer Sciences
Research interests: Computer architecture, performance evaluation, computer memory system design, parallel computin
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Dan Negrut
Mead Witter Foundation Professor
Contact: negrut@wisc.edu, (608) 265-6124
Also: Materials Science and Engineering, Computer Sciences
Research interests:
Software/Hardware Aspects Related to High Performance Computing in Engineering and Science,
Multi-physics Computer Modeling and Simulation,
Robotics,
Grap...
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Karl Rohe
Associate Professor
Contact: karlrohe@stat.wisc.edu
Research interests: Social network analysis, data science
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Scott T. Sanders
Professor
Contact: stsanders@wisc.edu, (608) 262-3540
Research interests: Swept-wavelength sources, advanced spectrometers, hyperspectral imaging, optical sensors, piston and aeropropulsion engines
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Other affiliations: Engine Research Center


Bulent Sarlioglu
Associate Professor
Contact: sarlioglu@wisc.edu, (608) 262-2703
Research interests: Electric machines, drives, power electronics, Electric actuation systems, Automotive, aerospace, naval and renewable energy applications, Complex and interdisciplinary power system architecture
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Other affiliations: Wisconsin Energy Institute

Gurindar S. Sohi
Professor
Contact: sohi@cs.wisc.edu, (608) 262-7985
Also: Computer Sciences
Research interests: Computer architecture, non-numeric processing, VLSI design, parallel processin
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Tomy Varghese
Professor
Contact: tvarghese@wisc.edu, (608) 265-8797
Research interests: Elastography, In-vivo strain imaging, Signal & Image Processing Applications in Medical Imaging, Ultrasound Tissue Characterization
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David Wood
Professor
Contact: david@cs.wisc.edu, (608) 263-7463
Also: Computer Sciences
Research interests: 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 simulati...
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Emeritus Faculty

James A. Bucklew
Professor
Contact: bucklew@engr.wisc.edu, (608) 262-3760
Research interests: Simulation of communication systems and networks, rare event simulation, digital and wireless communication systems
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Daniel Cobb
Associate Professor Emeritus
Contact: dcobb@wisc.edu
Research interests: Analog and digital control theory, robust control of high bandwidth systems, singular perturbation theory, singular dynamical systems
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Robert H. Lasseter
Emeritus Professor
Contact: lasseter@engr.wisc.edu, (608) 262-0186
Research interests: Distributed resources, Restructuring of electrical power system, Application of power electronics to utility systems, Simulation methods, Power electronic circuits and control, HVDC, SVC, FACTS and custom power...
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Thomas Lipo
Grainger Professor of Power Electronics and Electrical Machines Emeritus
Contact: lipo@engr.wisc.edu, (608) 262-0287
Research interests: Power electronics, adjustable speed drives, ac motor drive systems, electric machines
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Other affiliations: Wisconsin Electric Machines and Power Electronics Consortium

Leon McCaughan
Professor
Contact: mccaughan@engr.wisc.edu, (608) 262-0311
Also: Materials Science Program
Research interests: Fiber optic mesh networks, Clinical applications of guided wave photonics, Far-infrared (terahertz) generation and spectroscopy, Applications of quantum optics, Guided wave photonic devices and circuits, Nonlin...
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Donald W. Novotny
Emeritus Professor
Contact: novotny@engr.wisc.edu, (608) 262-6926
Research interests: Magnetic systems design, machine control concepts, power electronics, electrical machines, motor drives
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Other affiliations: Wisconsin Electric Machines and Power Electronics Consortium

Kewal Saluja
Professor Emeritus
Contact: saluja@engr.wisc.edu, (608) 262-6490
Also: Computer Sciences
Research interests: Design for testability, Built-in self-test, Computer architecture, VLSI design and testing, Fault-tolerant computing
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John E. Scharer
Professor Emeritus
Contact: scharer@engr.wisc.edu, (608) 263-1614
Research interests: 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 radiofreq...
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James E. Smith
Emeritus Professor
Contact: jes@ece.wisc.edu, (608) 265-5737
Research interests: Computer Architecture, High performance processor and system implementations, Virtual machines, Power effecient processors
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Ronald J. Vernon
Emeritus Professor
Contact: vernon@engr.wisc.edu, (608) 262-0774
Research interests: Semiconductor physics, interaction of microwaves with materials, propagation in anisotropic media, antennas, Vlasov converters, high-power microwave transmission and modeconversion systems, electromagnetic fiel...
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