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Concrete Canoe team members work together on building their 2023 competition boat.

Student Org Spotlight: UW-Madison Concrete Canoe

The UW-Madison Concrete Canoe team finished strong at the 2023 regional competition in Duluth, Minnesota this spring, taking second place overall, second place in prototype design, and second place in…

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Black zeppelin balloon over farm
December 7, 2023

High expectations for single-wire power exchange

Jean Van Bladel Associate Professor and H.I. Romnes Fellow Daniel Ludois and PhD student Shiying Wang received the award for Best Oral Presentation Paper in Emerging Technology for IEEE Energy…

Mikhail Kats and Zongfu Yu
December 6, 2023

Two UW-Madison ECE faculty in photonics among the most ‘Highly Cited Researchers’ in the world

For the fourth time in six years, Jack St. Clair Kilby Associate Professor and Antoine-Bascom Associate Professor Mikhail Kats and Professor Zongfu Yu of the Department of Electrical and Computer…

Focus on Faculty: Kassem Fawaz
November 28, 2023

ECE Focus on Faculty: Kassem Fawaz

Kassem Fawaz is the Associate Chair for Research and an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He is an award-winning educator…

Focus on Faculty Ramya Vinayak
November 2, 2023

ECE Focus on Faculty: Ramya Vinayak

Ramya Vinayak is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Vinayak’s research broadly spans the areas of Machine Learning, Statistical Inference,…

Group of students gather in Engineering Hall for remarks from Department Chair Susan Hagness
October 27, 2023

$500,000+ in ECE Department-funded undergraduate scholarships celebrated

154 ECE-funded scholarships totaling $504,250 have been awarded to 110 undergraduate electrical and computer engineering students.

Chih-Chun Chang with crest
September 29, 2023

ECE’s Chang wins 2023 Innovation Award from MIT/Amazon Graph Challenge

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering PhD student Chih-Chun Chang was one of only four recipients of an MIT/Amazon Graph Challenge Innovation Award at the 27th Annual IEEE High Performance…

Chirag Gupta, Shubhra Pasayat, Daniel Ludois
September 26, 2023

ECE’s Gupta, Pasayat, and Ludois receive $1.5M for semiconductor research

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Assistant Professors Chirag Gupta and Shubhra Pasayat, together with Associate Professor Daniel Ludois, have received a $1.5 Million NSF ASCENT grant to utilize wide…

Carissa Roper
September 25, 2023

ECE’s Roper wins IEEE AP-S Fellowship

Third-year, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering PhD student Carissa Roper has been awarded a 2023 IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society (AP-S) Fellowship.  She was one of eight recipients at…

Di Wu standing near blue body of water
September 21, 2023

Di Wu (PhDECE’22) selected as MLCommons Rising Star

Di Wu has been named an MLCommons Rising Star, one of 35 current and recently graduated PhD students working in the machine learning and systems research community.  Wu and the…

Professor Susan Hagness with alum Nana Murugesan, his parents, and scholarship recipient
September 7, 2023

Scholarship honors a father’s dream for his family

Dr. R. Murugesan isn’t an alumnus of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, but it’s hard to imagine anyone who embodies the spirit of the university more than him. That’s why his…