Faculty
Many talented people from diverse fields call WID their intellectual home. Drawing from disciplines as diverse as computer sciences, biology, chemistry, informatics, engineering, mathematics, art, soil science, genetics, the humanities, and communications, the WID community prides itself on promoting productive collisions of research and ideas.
WID Faculty have dual appointments in WID and home departments all across the UW-Madison campus. By nucleating world-class faculty around key research strengths, WID is positioned to bring a novel and rigorous approach to big problems. Discovery Fellows and WID Affiliates increase WID’s campus-wide reach and pull in new perspectives.
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Josh Arnold
Campus Energy Coordinator, UW-Madison Office of Sustainability
Develop policy discussions to inform scenarios for moving Wisconsin to a clean energy future
Randolph Ashton
Associate Professor
Engineering brain and spinal cord tissues ex vivo using human pluripotent stem cells
David Beebe
Claude Bernard Professor of Biomedical Engineering, John D. MacArthur Professor
Investigating cellular scale phenomena from both a physical and biological sciences perspective
Greg Bleck
Entrepreneur in Residence
Help turn scientific discovery and ideas into new products and companies.
Wendy Crone
Karen Thompson Medhi Professor
Solid mechanics, nanotechnology, and biotechnology
Alberto Del Pia
Associate Professor
Design of exact and approximate algorithms for mixed-integer optimization problems
John Denu
Katherine Berns Van Donk Steenbock Professor in Nutrition
Epigenetic chromatin changes that regulate cell signaling and metabolism
Jon Eckhardt
Associate Professor
Entrepreneurship, including firm formation, venture finance, and university driven entrepreneurship
Michael Ferris
John P. Morgridge Chair in Computer Sciences
Jacques-Louis Lions Professor of Computer Sciences
Director of Data Science Hub
Optimization methods and data modeling for large scale problems in science, engineering and economics
Shaoqin (Sarah) Gong
Vilas Distinguished Professor, Advancing Vision Science Chair Professor, and RRF Edwin and Dorothy Gamewell Professor, Kellett Mid-Career Award 2018-2023
Creating nanomedicines and nanomaterials for human health and sustainable energy applications.
Jo Handelsman
WID Director
Genetic and biochemical processes underlying interactions within plant and human microbiomes.
Robert Hawkins
Assistant Professor, Discovery Fellow
Computational principles of cognition enabling human communication and coordination
Ryan Herringa
Associate Professor
Neurodevelopmental mechanisms of stress and mental illness in youth
Andrew Hryckowian
Assistant Professor
The molecular mechanisms and genetic circuitry underlying microbiome community dynamics
Laura Knoll
Professor
Molecular analysis of the developmental regulation and virulence of protozoan parasites
Ramya Korlakai Vinayak
Discovery Fellow
My research broadly spans the areas of Machine Learning, Statistical Inference, and Crowdsourcing.