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Mikhail Kats wins prestigious Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers

Mikhail Kats, the Jack St. Clair Kilby and Antoine-Bascom Professor in electrical and computer engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has received a 2025 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and…

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Corn field
February 4, 2025

CBE researchers are part of a $2.8 million effort to create plant-based “living refineries”

Three University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering are part of a team selected by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E),…

Hantang Qin
February 4, 2025

Qin honored as distinguished faculty advisor

SME, previously known as the Society of Manufacturing Engineers has named the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Hantang Qin among its 2024 Distinguished Faculty Advisor Award winners. Qin, an assistant professor of…

February 3, 2025

Velten and Kats elected Optica fellows

Two electrical and computer engineering faculty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Associate Professor Andreas Velten and Jack St. Clair Kilby and Antoine-Bascom Professor Mikhail Kats, have been elected fellows of…

Adrien Couet
January 31, 2025

Couet leads material discovery panel during U.S. DOE roundtable

Professor Adrien Couet served as a panel lead in the “Foundational Science to Accelerate Nuclear Energy Innovation” roundtable hosted by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Basic Energy Sciences.

Colleen Witzenburg
January 30, 2025

Witzenburg lands MIRA grant

Colleen Witzenburg, the Jane R. and John G. Mandula Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has received a five-year, $1.25 million grant through a Maximizing Investigators’…

Focus on ECE Faculty: Joshua San Miguel
January 28, 2025

ECE Focus on Faculty: Joshua San Miguel

Joshua San Miguel is an associate professor within the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. San Miguel’s work lies within the field of computer architecture,…

Aarushi Bhargava
January 27, 2025

Bhargava earns WARF Cardiology Challenge Grant

Aarushi Bhargava, an assistant professor of biomedical engineering, is one of three University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers receiving Cardiology Challenge Grant funding from the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation and Route 66…

Mikhail Kats
January 22, 2025

Mikhail Kats wins prestigious Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers

Mikhail Kats, the Jack St. Clair Kilby and Antoine-Bascom Professor in electrical and computer engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has received a 2025 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and…

Mikhail Kats
January 10, 2025

Kats selected as SPIE fellow

Mikhail Kats, the Jack St. Clair Kilby Professor and Antoine-Bascom Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has been elevated to the rank…

Umit Yusuf Ogras
January 10, 2025

Ogras elevated to IEEE fellow

Umit Y. Ogras, the Gene Amdahl Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has been named a fellow of the Institute of Electrical…