Recent Faculty Grants
2023
Josh Brake (Engineering)
National Science Foundation, $560,428 for “CAREER: Next-generation Rhizosphere Monitoring – Non-invasive Plant Phenotyping and Health Monitoring Using the Light-piping Properties of Plant Stems”
Josh Brake (Engineering)
National Science Foundation, $173,904 for “ERI: RUI: Wavefront shaping through flexible multicore fiber bundles for coherent light focusing and imaging in neurophotonics”
Alfred Flores (Humanities, Social Sciences, and the Arts)
National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Stipend, $6000 for “Transoceanic Micronesians: Chamoru and Marshallese Diaspora in Southern California”
Dre Helmns (Engineering)
Department of Energy/Lawrence Berkeley Labs, $78,831.00 for “Reduced Cost Heat Pump Space- and Water-Heating in Cold Climates””
Mark Ilton (Engineering)
Research Corporation for Scientific Advancement, Cottrell Award, $100,000 for “The Physical Principles Governing High-Rate and Large Deformation Elastic Recoil”
Patrick Little (Engineering)
National Science Foundation, $100,000 for “Prototyping, Developing and Exploring Collaborative Relationships Among Germination Researchers”
Xanda Schofield and George Montañez (Computer Science)
National Science Foundation, $393,470 for “REU Site: Exploring The Limits of Intelligent Systems”
Steven Santana (Engineering)
National Science Foundation, $503,000 for “BRC-BIO: Interrogating Extracellular Vesicle Biogenesis Through Substrate-Associated Signals”
Steven Santana (Engineering)
Sloan Foundation, $10,000 for “Deciphering the Material Factors that Inspire Extracellular Vesicle Production”
2022
Josh Brake (Engineering)
Research Corporation for Scientific Advancement and the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, $55,700 for “openIVIS: Democratizing Access to Macroscopic Bioimaging”
TJ Tsai (Engineering)
National Science Foundation, $500,270 for “CAREER: Ordered Alignment Methods for Complex, High-Dimensional Data”
Zach Dodds and Lucas Bang (Computer Science)
National Science Foundation, $544,284 for “Exploring A New Computing Curriculum: Computing-As-Literacy”
Jason Gallicchio (Physics)
Office of Naval Research, $69,000 for “Survey, geolocation, and precision transmission with airborne software-defined radio”
2021
Lori Bassman (Engineering)
National Science Foundation, $201,193 for “Collaborative Research: RUI: IRES – Track I: US-Australia collaboration on a new class of lead-free copper alloys to meet international health demands”
Jason Gallicchio (Physics)
Office of Naval Research, $99,975 for “Survey, geolocation, and precision transmission with airborne software defined radio”
Jamie Haddock (Math)
National Science Foundation, $232,568 for “Tensor Models, Methods, and Medicine”
Lelia Hawkins (Chemistry)
National Science Foundation/Georgia Tech, $113,010 for “Mid-Scale RI-1 (M1:IP): Atmospheric Science and Chemistry Measurement NeTwork (ASCENT)”
Haydee Lindo (Mathematics)
National Science Foundation, $160,175 for “LEAPS-MPS: Singularities, Rigidity, and Trace Modules”
Julie Medero (Computer Science)
National Science Foundation, $46,840 for “Open-Source Renewables: Coupling Resilience to Natural Disasters with Environmental Justice”
George Montañez and Lucas Bang (Computer Science)
National Science Foundation, $382,668 for “Harvey Mudd REU Site in Computer Systems”
Vatche Sahakian (Physics)
National Science Foundation, $135,000 for “RUI: Weaving space with quantum entanglement, and black holes in stochastic Matrix theory”
Danae Schulz (Biology)
National Science Foundation, $629,999 for “CAREER: Characterizing molecular mechanisms that drive life cycle transitions in the African trypanosome
David Vosburg (Chemistry)
Organic Syntheses, $8000 for “One-pot, Multicomponent Syntheses of Triazolodiazepinones and Related Heterocycles”
Heather Zinn-Brooks (Mathematics)
National Science Foundation, $208,864 for “Advances in bounded-confidence models on networks”
2020
Christopher Clark (Engineering)
National Science Foundation, $300,000 for “RUI: Monitoring of Marine Life Coastal Habitats via Autonomous Robot Systems”
Albert Dato (Engineering)
National Science Foundation, $500,000 for “CAREER: Understanding the Process-Structure-Property Relationships in Polymer Nanocomposites Reinforced with Gas-Phase-Synthesized Graphene”
Jason Gallicchio (Physics)
National Science Foundation, $495,589 for “CAREER: Using Astronomy to Improve Tests of Quantum Mechanics”
Vivien Hamilton (Humanities, Social Sciences, and the Arts)
Huntington Library, $3500 for “Mechanical Womb and Artificial Mother: Designing the Infant Incubator, 1900- 1940”
Vivien Hamilton (Humanities, Social Sciences, and the Arts)
Lemelson Center at the Smithsonian, $750 Travel Grant for “Mechanical Womb and Artificial Mother: Designing the Infant Incubator, 1900- 1940”
Mark Ilton (Physics)
National Science Foundation, $118,971 for “Collaborative Research: Moving with muscles vs. springs: evolutionary biomechanics of extremely fast, small systems”
David K. Seitz (Humanities, Social Sciences, and the Arts)
Friends of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries, $2,000 Grants to Scholars award for “Radical Geographies of Milwaukee”
Timothy Tsai (Engineering)
National Science Foundation, $174,109 for “CRII: SaTC: RUI: A Cross-Verification Approach for Identifying Tampered Audio”
2019
James C. Boerkoel Jr. (Computer Science)
National Science Foundation, $45,900 for “A Consortium for Cultivating Future Artificial Intelligence Researchers”
Geoff Kuenning (Computer Science)
National Science Foundation, $7,998 for “CI-SUSTAIN: National File System Trace Repository”
Geoff Kuenning (Computer Science)
National Science Foundation, $264,878 for “Large Parameter Spaces”
Ran Libeskind-Hadas (Computer Science)
National Science Foundation, $498,458 for “RUI: Finding Best Representative Phylogenetic Tree Reconciliations”
Catherine S. McFadden (Biology)
National Science Foundation, $839,060 for “Zooxanthellate Octocorals”
Catherine S. McFadden (Biology)
National Science Foundation, $33,964 for “PurSUiT: Diversity and endemism across a steep biogeographic cline: marine invertebrates of Oman”
Catherine S. McFadden (Biology)
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, $10,000 for “Climate Adaptation and Mitigation Program (CAMP) Continuation”
George Montañez (Computer Science)
Discovery Institute, $25,000 for “Formalizing the Limits of Machine Learning (Walter Bradley Center for Natural and Artificial Intelligence at Discovery Institute)”
Erin Talvite (Computer Science)
National Science Foundation, $301,255.00 for “CAREER: Using Imperfect Predictions to Make Good Decisions”
Hal Van Ryswyk (Chemistry)
National Science Foundation, $442,960 for “MRI: Acquisition of a Standardized Integrated Toolset for Photovoltaics Fabrication and Characterization”
2018
Colleen M. Lewis (Computer Science)
Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE), $5,000 for “Interactive resources for training CS TAs”
Brian Shuve (Physics)
National Science Foundation, $120,000 for “RUI: Uncovering the Particle Nature of Hidden Sectors”
Colleen M. Lewis (Computer Science)
National Science Foundation, $418,537 for “Developing Evidence-based Best Practices for Broadening Participation in Computing Education (CRA subaward)”
Darryl H. Yong (Mathematics), Colleen M. Lewis (Computer Science), and Zachary Dodds (Computer Science)
National Science Foundation, $426,629 for “Math for America Los Angeles: Elevating Mathematics and Computer Science Instruction through Teacher Leadership”
Lelia Hawkins (Chemistry)
National Science Foundation, $143,328 for “Collaborative Research: RUI: IRES – Track I: Brown Carbon Aerosol Formation by Photooxidation of Phenolic Compounds”
Matina Donaldson-Matasci (Biology)
National Science Foundation, $364,920 for “Dynamic ant networks: How environmental constraints and ecological context shape resource transport systems”
Zach Dodds (Computer Science)
Tides Foundation, $20,000 for a Google Computer Science Educator Award
Lisette de Pillis (Mathematics) and Tanja Srebotnjak (Hixon Center)
National Science Foundation, $349,101 for “REU Site: Data Science in the Life Sciences, Environmental Science and Engineering”
Yi-Chieh Wu (Computer Science)
National Science Foundation, $505,522 for “CAREER: Algorithms for Gene Family Evolution with Gene Duplication, Loss and Coalescence”
2017
Gerald Van Hecke (Chemistry), James Eckert (Physics) and Lelia Hawkins (Chemistry)
National Science Foundation, $84,362 for “MRI: Acquisition of a differential scanning calorimeter for undergraduate research and training”
Andrea Quattrini (Biology)
Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, $394,000 for “Deepwater Atlantic Habitats: Continued Atlantic Research and Exploration in Deepwater Ecosystems with Focus on Coral, Canyon and Seep Communities”
Vatche Sahakian (Physics)
National Science Foundation, $120,000 for “Emergent Spacetime in Matrix Theory”
Patrick Little (Engineering)
National Science Foundation, $291,678 for “Using Human-Centered Design to Conceptualize and Prototype Ways to Increase Graduate Students’ Engagement with Transformative Research”
Mike Erlinger and Zach Dodds (Computer Science)
National Science Foundation, $103,726 for “NSF CCSC Computer Science Education Showcase”
David Vosburg, Adam Johnson and Kathy Van Heuvelen (Chemistry)
National Science Foundation, $331,285 for “MRI: Acquisition of a 400 MHz NMR for Undergraduate Research and Training”
Dan Stoebel (Biology)
National Science Foundation, $327,962 for “The transcriptional response to quantitative variation in RpoS concentration in E. coli”