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Students in front of Engineering Hall
September 6, 2023

College welcomes 18 new faculty

The University of Wisconsin-Madison College of Engineering is thrilled to welcome 18 new faculty members during the 2023-24 academic year. They come from all over the world, bringing a variety…

Adam Dempsey
September 3, 2025

New Mechanical Engineering Faculty: Adam Dempsey

Adam Dempsey will join the Department of Mechanical Engineering as an Associate Professor in January 2026! His research program is centered on sustainable, clean energy research – specifically low carbon…

So Yeon Kim
August 20, 2025

New Mechanical Engineering Faculty: So Yeon Kim

So Yeon Kim will join the Department of Mechanical Engineering as an Assistant Professor in January 2026! So Yeon’s research seeks to understand and engineer materials’ damage tolerance under open-system…

UW Crest with engineering background
July 3, 2025

New Mechanical Engineering Faculty: Harsh Sharma

Dr. Harsh Sharma will join the Department of Mechanical Engineering as an Assistant Professor in August 2025. The Sharma research group will focus on integrating first principles and domain-specific knowledge with machine…

Weiyu Li
July 9, 2024

New Mechanical Engineering Faculty: Weiyu Li

Dr. Weiyu Li will join the Department of Mechanical Engineering as an Alfred Fritz Assistant Professor in Fall 2024. Li’s expertise lies in theoretical and computational modeling of transport in…

UW Crest with engineering background
June 13, 2024

New Mechanical Engineering Faculty: Prateek Jaiswal

Prateek Jaiswal will join the Department of Mechanical Engineering as an Assistant Professor in November 2024! Jaiswal will establish the Experimental Fluid Mechanics Lab at UW-Madison. His research group will…

Thomas Breunung
June 10, 2024

New Mechanical Engineering Faculty: Thomas Breunung

Thomas Breunung will join the Department of Mechanical Engineering as an Assistant Professor in January 2025! Breunung will establish the Dynamics, Structures, and Data (DSD) Lab at UW-Madison. He and…

ME Xiao Kuang
June 4, 2024

New Mechanical Engineering Faculty: Xiao Kuang

Xiao Kuang will join the Department of Mechanical Engineering as an Assistant Professor in August 2024! Kuang will bring his talents to the Polymer Engineering Center and has research plans…

Yunus Alapan
October 3, 2023

New Mechanical Engineering Faculty: Yunus Alapan

Yunus Alapan will join the Department of Mechanical Engineering as an Assistant Professor in January 2024! Alapan will establish the Bio-integrated Robotics Lab at UW-Madison. His research group works at…

Wei Wang
September 28, 2023

New Mechanical Engineering Faculty: Wei Wang

Wei Wang will join the Department of Mechanical Engineering as an Assistant Professor in January 2024! Wang will lead the new Marine Robotics Lab at UW-Madison. Wang’s research group is…