Prof. Susan C. Hagness

hagness@engr.wisc.edu
http://www.engr.wisc.edu/ece/faculty/hagness_susan.html

Office
3419 Engineering Hall
Phone:    (608)-265-5739
Fax:         (608)-262-1267

Address
University of Wisconsin
Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering
1415 Engineering Dr.
Madison, WI 53706

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    Suzette Aguilar, Ph.D. candidate

Research interests:

• Antennas for breast cancer detection and treatment
• Microwave circuit/system design for medical applications

E-mail Suzette

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    Matthew Burfeindt, Ph.D. candidate

Research interests:

• Modeling electromagnetic wave behavior in the presence of obstructions

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    Fuqiang Gao, Ph.D. candidate

Research interests:

• Hybrid sensing modality that exploits both dielectric and elastic tissue contrasts

E-mail Fuqiang

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    Stephen Kennedy, Ph.D. candidate

Research interests:

• Multiscale, electrostimulatory approaches for regulated gene and drug delivery
• Utilization of electromagnetic energy for spatiotemporal control over cell behaviors important in stem cell-based tissue engineering
• Cataloging of electrically mediated gene and drug delivery dynamics

M.S. Project: Development and characterization of a microfabricated exposure cuvette for real-time, quantitative analysis of electroporative delivery kinetics.

E-mail Steve

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    Al Mashal, Ph.D. candidate

Research interests:

• Microwave-induced thermoacoustic imaging for breast cancer

M.S. Project: Towards Microwave-Induced Thermoacoustic Breast Imaging: Experimental Studies of the Thermoacoustic Response of Dielectric Targets in Simple Phantoms.

E-mail Al
https://mywebspace.wisc.edu/amashal/web/

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    Jacob Shea, Ph.D. candidate

Research interests:

• UWB antennas
• Microwave medical imaging
• Spectral measurement

M.S. Project: Parametric Estimation of Multipath Distortion in Tissue Penetrating Radar.

E-mail Jacob

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    Keely Willis, Ph.D. candidate (webmaster)

Research interests:

• Multiphysics numerical models of electromagnetic wave interaction with complex lossy materials.
• Terahertz frequency characterization of silicon.
• Algorithm development for a combination of the Ensemble Monte Carlo and finite-difference time-domain methods.

M.S. Project: FDTD analysis of electromagnetic wave amplification upon reflection from a low refractive index gain medium.

E-mail Keely

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    Earl Zastrow, Ph.D. candidate

Research interests:

• Electromagnetic modeling using FDTD methods

M.S. Project: Safety assessment of ultrawideband microwave radar technique for breast cancer detection.

E-mail Earl

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    Min Zhao, Ph.D. August 2009

Ph.D. Dissertation: Contributions to cost reduction and sensitivity improvement of microwave breast cancer reduction.

Upon graduation, employed by: Boston Scientific Corporation, Minneapolis, MN

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    Mariya Lazebnik, Ph.D. June 2008

Ph.D. Dissertation: Ultrawideband spectroscopy and dielectric-properties contrast enhancement for microwave breast cancer detection and treatment.

Upon graduation, employed by: Medtronic Incorporated, Minneapolis, MN

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    Dr. Panagiotis Kosmas, Posdoctoral Scholar 2007

Employed by: King's College, London

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    David Winters, Ph.D. August 2007

Ph.D. Dissertation: Dimensionality reduction in inverse scattering: Applications to microwave imaging for breast cancer detection.

Upon graduation, employed by: The MITRE Corporation, Boston, MA

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    Zhen Ji, Ph.D. March 2007

Ph.D. Dissertation: Biological cell membrane dynamics induced by electric pulses.

Upon graduation, employed by: Department of Medical Physics, University of Wisconsin - Madison

 

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    Essex Bond, Ph.D. December 2006

Ph.D. Dissertation: Space-time methods for breast cancer detection and treatment using ultrawideband microwave signals.

Upon graduation, employed by: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, CA

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Employed by: Department of Surgery, University of Wisconsin - Madison

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    Shakti Davis, Ph.D. August 2006

Ph.D. Dissertation: Ultrawideband radar-based detection and classification of breast tumors.

Upon graduation, employed by: MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Boston, MA

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    Anuj Dron, M.S. May 2006

Upon graduation, employed by: Qualcomm Inc, San Diego, CA

Currently employed by: Rayspan Corporation, San Diego, CA

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    Henri Tandradinata, M.S. August 2004

M.S. Project: Three dimensional finite-difference time-domain code for use in simulating breast cancer detection and treatment using ultrawideband microwave technologies.

Upon graduation, employed by: ZS Associates, Evanston, IL

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    Luke Palmer, M.S. August 2004

M.S. Project: Hardware and software developments for ultrawideband microwave breast cancer detection.

Upon graduation, employed by: Epic Systems, Madison, WI

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    Rebecca Senkowicz, M.S. Mathematics June 2004

Project: Solutions manual for a computational electromagnetics textbook

Upon graduation, employed by: Edgewood College, Madison, WI

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    Cynthia Beasley, M.S. December 2003

M.S. Project: In vivo and ex vivo dielectric spectroscopy of breast tissue at microwave frequencies using a precision probe.

Upon graduation, employed by: Research Triangle Institute, NC

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    Tae-Woo Lee, Ph.D. December 2003

Ph.D. Dissertation: Development and application of full-wave time-domain numerical modeling techniques for the analysis of linear and nonlinear photonic micro/nanostructures.

Upon graduation, employed by: Argonne National Laboratories, IL

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Ph.D. Dissertation: An ultrawideband microwave imaging system for early detection of breast cancer.

Upon graduation, employed by: Northwestern University, Evanston, IL

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M. S. Project: Reconfigurable single-feed antennas for diversity wireless communications.

Upon graduation, employed by: Sandia National Laboratory

Currently employed by: Smiths Medical, Waukesha, WI

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    Dina Hagl, M.S. Dec. 2001

M. S. Project: Sensing volume of open-ended coaxial probes for dielectric spectroscopy of breast tissue at microwave frequencies.

Upon graduation, employed by: Bundeswehr Universitat (Germany)

Currently employed by: AudioTravel

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    Narayanan Murugesan, M.S. June 2001

M. S. Project: Unconditionally stable full-wave Maxwell's equation solver for VLSI interconnect modeling.

Upon graduation, employed by: Cisco

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    Dr. Salvador Gonzalez Garcia, Visiting Scholar 2001

Employed by: Universidad de Granada, Spain

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    Kristen Leininger, M.S. Dec. 2000

M.S. Thesis: Dielectric characterization of normal, benign, and malignant breast tissue: A pilot study.

Upon graduation, employed by: Motorola, Inc.

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Employed by: Imperial College, University of London

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