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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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Silvia Jordache with Susan Hagness
May 8, 2025

2025 ECE department awards highlight exceptional academic community

As the 2025 academic year came to a close, the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at the University of Wisconsin–Madison brought together faculty, staff, and graduate students to…

Reid Van Lehn
May 2, 2025

Van Lehn receives Vilas early career award

Reid Van Lehn, the Hunt-Hougen Associate Professor in chemical and biological engineering, is one of 12 recipients of the 2025 Vilas Faculty Early Career Investigator Award, which honors University of…

Dominic Gross
May 2, 2025

Gross receives Vilas early career award

Dominic Gross, a Dugald C. Jackson Assistant Professor in electrical and computer engineering, is one of 12 recipients of the 2025 Vilas Faculty Early Career Investigator Award, which honors University…

Filiz Yesilkoy
May 2, 2025

Yesilkoy receives Vilas early career award

Filiz Yesilkoy, an assistant professor of biomedical engineering, is among the recipients of a Vilas Faculty Early Career Investigator Award, one of the Vilas honors available to University of Wisconsin-Madison…

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…

Stock image of solar panels
December 16, 2024

ECE power converter project selected as WARF Innovation Award finalist

A research project by electrical and computer engineering researchers including Keith and Jane Morgan Nosbusch Professor in Engineering Education Giri Venkataramanan, Thomas A. Lipo Assistant Professor Jinia Roy, Dugald C….

PhD student Yutao Dong and Professor Xudong Wang working in the lab
December 16, 2024

Wang’s dendrite suppressing membrane nominated for WARF Innovation Award

A research project led by Xudong Wang, a professor of materials science and engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and recent PhD graduate Yutao Dong, was selected as a semifinalist…

Ying Li
December 4, 2024

Ying Li recognized with ASME Rising Star award

Mechanical Engineering Associate Professor Ying Li recently received an ASME Rising Star in Mechanical Engineering Award! The award recognizes “innovative work and dedication that significantly advances the engineering profession and…

Umit Yusuf Ogras
October 30, 2024

Ogras wins best paper award at Embedded Systems Week and receives Intel funding

Umit Y. Ogras, the Gene Amdahl Professor in electrical and computer engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, received the best paper award at the International Conference on Compilers, Architectures, and Synthesis…

Tsung-Wei (TW) Huang
October 29, 2024

Huang wins IEEE/ACM ICCAD most influential paper award

Tsung-Wei (TW) Huang, an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is the recipient of the 2024 ICCAD 10-Year Retrospective Most Influential Paper Award from…