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Mikhail Kats

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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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, $1.86 million grant through a Maximizing Investigators’…

Yuki Gao
January 28, 2025

ECE’s Gao receives IEEE AP-S doctoral research grant

Yuki Gao, a first-year PhD student in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, was selected to receive a 2024 IEEE Antennas and Propagation…

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…

Matt Gebbie and Ryan Cashen in the lab
October 10, 2024

DURIP grant will allow Gebbie lab to acquire cutting-edge microscope

Matthew Gebbie, Conway Assistant Professor of chemical and biological engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has received a grant from the Defense University Research Instrumentation Program (DURIP) to acquire a…

UW Crest with engineering background
October 8, 2024

CHESS continues work on mental health, substance-use disorder treatment with $17M in federal grants

The Center for Health Enhancement Systems Studies (CHESS), based in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has received a series of federal grants totaling…

September 25, 2024

ECE spinoff company selected for Discovery to Product SEED grant

University of Wisconsin-Madison electrical and computer engineering professors Luke Mawst, the Grainger STAR Professor in Engineering, and Dan Botez, Philip Dunham Reed Professor, are one of seven teams from across…

Qiaomin Xie
September 19, 2024

Xie earns NSF grant to improve decision-making in complex systems

Qiaomin Xie, an assistant professor of industrial and systems engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, will lead a National Science Foundation-funded research project to bolster the algorithms and theory behind…

Hantang Qin
August 6, 2024

Qin lands early stage NSF grant for transfer learning project

Hantang Qin, an assistant professor of industrial and systems engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has received an Early-Concept Grant for Exploratory Research (EAGER) from the National Science Foundation to…

Aviad Hai
August 1, 2024

Hai receives early stage NSF grant for nanofabricated brain sensors

Aviad Hai, a Vilas Early Career assistant professor of biomedical engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has received an Early-Concept Grant for Exploratory Research (EAGER) from the National Science Foundation…

Tony McDonald and Yonatan Mintz
May 14, 2024

McDonald, Mintz receive American Family data science grant

Tony McDonald and Yonatan Mintz, assistant professors in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, are among the University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers to earn funding in the latest round of…