2022-2023 Academic Year News

May 2023

Audrey Evans successfully defended her PhD thesis and will begin post-graduation employment at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Congratulations Audrey!

April 2023

Congratulations to Audrey Evans for recieving the 2023 IEEE AP-S/URSI Mojgan Daneshmand Grant!

January 2023

Congratulations to Tessa Haldes for recieving the 2023 IEEE AP-S Doctoral Research Grant! Check out this news release.

October 2022

Yizhou Yao attends the 2022 Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) meeting.

Yizhou at BMES 2022

Yizhou presents her work on electric pulse exposure.

2021-2022 Academic Year News

July 2022

Prof. Hagness and UWCEM students attend the 2022 IEEE AP-S/URSI Symposium in Denver, Colorado.

UWCEM group photo at aps/ursi 2022

From left to right: UWCEM alum Prof. Hung Luyen, Prof. Susan Hagness, Audrey Evans, Tessa Haldes, Carissa Roper, and UWCEM alum Dr. Matthew Burfeindt.

February 2022

Professor Hagness wrote a "Women in Engineering" column for the February 2022 issue of the IEEE Antennas & Propagation Magazine. You can find the full article here. Congratulations, Professor Hagness!

January 2022

Congratulations to Audrey Evans for recieving the 2020 IEEE AP-S Doctoral Research Grant! Check out this news release.

September 2021

Welcome to our new PhD student Carissa Roper!

2020-2021 Academic Year News

February 2021

Yizhou and Audrey virtually presented their research at the UW-Madison ECE Open House.

Yizhou and Audrey at open house

Yizhou presents her work on Advances in Electroporation for Future Gene Therapy Applications and Audrey presents her work on Microwave-Induced Thermoacoustic Imaging at the virtual UW-Madison ECE Open House.

2019-2020 Academic Year News

July 2020

Alex Haufler successfully defended his PhD thesis and began post-graduation employment at Raytheon Intelligence & Space. Congratulations Alex!

June 2020

Welcome to our new PhD student Tessa Haldes!

2018-2019 Academic Year News

March 2019

Yizhou Yao presented her research at the UW-Madison ECE Open House. Good job, Yizhou!

Yizhou at open house

Yizhou presents her work on Advances in Electroporation for Future Gene Therapy Applications.

December 2018

Luz María Neira successfully defended her PhD thesis.  Congratulations Luz María!

October 2018

UW Madison College of Engineering released this article about Prof. Hagness's mentorship of women faculty.  Congratulations Prof. Hagness!

September 2018

Welcome to our new PhD student Yizhou Yao!

2017-2018 Academic Year News

July 2018

Yahya Mohtashami successfully defended his PhD thesis and began post-graduation employment as a postdoctoral researcher for the Schuller lab at UC Santa Barbara.  Congratulations Yahya!

James Sawicki successfully defended his PhD thesis and began post-graduation employment at Boston Scientific in Malborough, MA.  Congratulations, James!

June 2018

Sathya S. Ganta successfully defended his PhD thesis and began post-graduation employment at Applied Materials in Santa Clara, CA. Congratulations Sathya!

May 2018

Erik Aiken successfully defended his PhD thesis and began post-graduation employment at Epic in Verona, WI.  Congratulations Erik!

A microwave-based technique for cranberry crop yield estimation, developed by UWCEM graduate student Alex Haufler, Prof. Susan Hagness and Prof. John Booske, was featured in this IEEE The Institute article.

April 2018

UWCEM graduate student Alex Haufler was named a finalist in the IEEE AP-S URSI student paper competition.  Congratulations, Alex!

UWCEM graduate student Audrey L. Evans was awarded the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. Check out this news release featuring the UW College of Engineering's eight NSF fellowship winners, and this one from the Graduate School. Congratulations, Audrey!

February 2018

UWCEM graduate student James F. Sawicki was awarded the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society Doctoral Research Grant. Congratulations, James!

January 2018

A microwave-based technique for cranberry crop yield estimation, developed by UWCEM graduate student Alex Haufler, Prof. Susan Hagness and Prof. John Booske, was featured in this UW College of Engineering news release and here on the University of Wisconsin News.

Yahya Mohtashami takes first place in the Student Paper Competition at the 2018 USNC-URSI National Radio Science Meeting in Boulder, CO. Congratulations, Yahya!

Yahya wins NRSM 2018 student paper competition

Prof. Nader Behdad (left) and Yahya Mohtashami (right) at the NRSM 2018 in Boulder

November 2017

UWCEM graduate student Alex Haufler, director Prof. Susan Hagness, and Prof. John Booske develop a microwave-based technique for estimating cranberry crop yields. Their work is featured in this podcast by Scientific American.

September 2017

Welcome to our new PhD student Audrey Evans!

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