Laura Albert, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Industrial & Systems Engineering at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Her research interests are in the field of operations research, with a particular focus on discrete optimization with …
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Uwe Bergmann
Uwe Bergmann is a Professor in the Physics Department of UW-Madison. He specializes on the development and application of novel X-ray techniques based on the most powerful x-ray sources. He has studies ancient manuscripts including …
Vicki Bier
Vicki Bier is Professor Emerita in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering and the Department of Engineering Physics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where she directed the Center for Human Performance and Risk Analysis …
Victor Brar
Victor Brar worked with carbon nanotubes, at MIT with Mildred Dresselhaus, before getting his PhD at UC Berkeley while working on Scanning Tunneling Microscopes with Mike Crommie. He has developed new methods to image materials …
Michael Corradini
Michael L. Corradini was the Wisconsin Distinguished Professor of Nuclear Engineering and Engineering Physics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He taught at UW from 1981-2016, serving from 1995-2001 as the Associate Dean for the College …
Sameer Desphande
Sameer is an Assistant Professor in Statistics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. His research interests include Bayesian hierarchical modeling, Bayesian treed regression, variable selection, and causal inference. Much of his methodological work is motivated by …
Jordan Ellenberg
Jordan Ellenberg is a number theorist whose popular articles about mathematics have appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Wired, and Slate. Testimonials “…you have an incredible ability to take a complex …
Cary Forest
Cary Forest grew up in Wisconsin, was an undergraduate at UW–Madison and received his PhD from Princeton University in 1992. From there he moved to San Diego and began his post graduate career as a …
Christopher Harrison
Rogerio Jorge
Rogerio Jorge is an Assistant Professor at UW-Madison, USA. Before moving to Madison, he was the Principal Investigator of an EUROfusion’s Enabling Research Grant at IST Lisbon, Portugal, and an FCT CEEC Grant at the …
Ramya Korlakai Vinayak
Ramya Korlakai Vinayak is an assistant professor in the Dept. of Electrical Computer Engineering at the UW-Madison. Her research interests span the areas of machine learning, statistical inference, and crowdsourcing. Her work focuses on addressing …
James Lattis
Jim Lattis holds a Ph.D. in History of Science from UW–Madison and is the author of many publications in that field. He helped create UW Space Place, the outreach and public education center of the …
Alexandre Lazarian
I started my research in the theoretical physics group led by Professor Vitaly Ginzburg. Soon after my Diploma work, I got a Soros Fellowship to spend one year at Oxford University. Later, I got Isaac …
Keith Levin
Keith grew up outside of Boston, Massachusetts and attended Northeastern University, where he earned degrees in linguistics and psychology. After working at BBN Technologies as a data analyst, he obtained his Ph.D. in Computer Science …
Haddie McLean
Haddie is a UW–Madison alum with a B.S. in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences. She joined the Physics Department in August 2021 after a 20+ year career as a meteorologist at WISC-TV in Madison.
Yonatan Mintz
Yonatan Mintz is an assistant professor in the Industrial and Systems Engineering department at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. His research focuses on the application of machine learning and automated decision making to human sensitive …
Abdollah Mohammadi
I am a teaching Faculty and a research scientist in the Physics department and a member of the CMS collaboration at the LHC Experiment at CERN in Switzerland. I have taught physics and conducted research …
Rob Nowak
Rob Nowak is the McFarland-Bascom Professor in Engineering at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where his research focuses on signal processing, machine learning, optimization, and statistics. The BeerMapper and NEXT systems are recent applications of his …
Jonathan Rebelsky
Jonathan Rebelsky is an Analytical Chemistry PhD Candidate in the Department of Chemistry. Jonathan earned a Bachelor’s of Arts degree from Grinnell College in Music and Chemistry and works in the Widicus Weaver lab studying …
Mark Saffman
Mark Saffman has been on the faculty at UWM since 1999. Mark’s research involves the use of atomic and optical physics for quantum computing and quantum science. Mark is also active in commercializing quantum computing …
Claudia Solis-Lemus
Claudia Solis-Lemus grew up in Mexico City, where she completed her undergraduate work at the Instituto Tecnologico Autonomo de Mexico in Actuarial Sciences and Applied Mathematics. Claudia received her Ph.D. in Statistics at the University …
Zoe Todd
I study astrobiology – when people ask what astrobiology is, I usually reply with “aliens!” and it’s only slight a joke. I study the conditions and processes that may have led to the origins of …
Justin Vandenbroucke
Dr. Vandenbroucke uses innovative instruments around the world to detect high energy particles from the cosmos. Understanding the smallest particles in the universe is necessary to understand the largest objects in the universe, and vice …
Emmanouil Vasileios Vlatakis Gkaragkounis
Emmanouil-Vasileios (Manolis) Vlatakis Gkaragkounis is Assistant Professor in Computer Sciences. Manolis has been currently a Foundations of Data Science Institute (FODSI) Postdoctoral Fellow at the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing, UC Berkeley, mentored …
Till Wagner
Till Wagner grew up in southern Germany, studied physics, philosophy, and applied math in the UK, and moved to California to work as a researcher in climate science with a focus on the polar regions. …
Adelle Wright
Originally from Melbourne, Australia, Dr. Adelle Wright is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Nuclear Engineering and Engineering Physics at the University of Wisconsin – Madison. Prior to joining the faculty at UW-Madison, …