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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Krishanu Saha
Associate Professor
Human cell engineering including CRISPR gene editing and epigenetic reprogramming; science & society
Kris Sankaran
Assistant Professor
Statistical tools for exploring latent variation in microbiological and earth systems data
Karen Schloss
Associate Professor
Visual perception and cognition in information visualization and virtual reality.
Ahna Skop
Professor
Mechanisms that underlie cell division and using scientific art to engage the public
Claudia Solís-Lemus
Assistant Professor
My research involves the development of statistical models to answer biological questions.
Rupa Sridharan
Associate Professor
Epigenetic control of cell identity in pluripotency, development and disease
ZhengZheng (Jane) Tang
Assistant Professor
Developing statistical methods and computational tools for high-throughput omics data.
Susan Thibeault
Professor, Diane M. Bless Endowed Chair in Otolaryngology
Vocal fold mucosa biology in health and disease
Lih-Sheng (Tom) Turng
Consolidated Papers Foundation Chair, Fellow of ASME, SME, and SPE
Bridging engineering and life sciences for manufacturing of cell-/tissue-based therapeutic products
Stephen Wright
George B. Dantzig Professor of Computer Sciences
Optimization algorithms with applications to data analysis and other areas.
John Yin
Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor
Forecasting of virus-host growth and infection spread; physical and chemical origins of life
