Microsoft’s Satya Nadella named CEO of the Year for 2023 by CNN 

In a year fueled by artificial intelligence, CNN Business chose Microsoft’s Satya Nadella (’90 MS Computer Science) as its CEO of the Year for 2023, beating out Chase CEO Jamie Dimon, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang.  After making a multi-billion-dollar investment …

CS alum Ahmad Tafti lands a ‘Eureka Award’ from Oracle

Computer science alumnus Ahmad Tafti (’16 PhD; advisor: Zeyun Yu), who is now assistant professor of health informatics in the University of Pittsburgh, has received an Oracle Excellence Award for Research, one of several awards the company bestows on researchers …

Eleven students awarded scholarships from Foundry Educational Foundation

Eleven UWM students from the Materials Science & Engineering Department were recently awarded scholarships from the Foundry Educational Foundation (FEF). One of the recipients, doctoral student Omid Ghaderi, was recognized with the organization’s competitive Thomas Begel Memorial Scholarship, given to …

College’s water researchers dominate WEP funding

Five of the six research projects awarded funding from the Water Equipment and Policy Center (WEP) for 2024 are led by researchers at the College, says center director Qian Liao, professor of civil and environmental engineering. WEP is a university-industry …

Petering project highlighted on TMJ4 news

Industrial and manufacturing associate professor Matthew Petering uses his computer coding skills to solve complicated problems. Now, Petering has used that expertise to devise an algorithm he believes would take human bias out of the legislative redistricting process. Read more

Graduate featured on UWM Report

Congratulations to Jose Antonio Trujillo Parra, who is featured in the UWM slideshow of students with job offers before graduation. Trujillo is receiving a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering. During his time at UWM, he worked as an undergraduate research …

Cuzner lab partnership with local industry featured on WUWM

The College’s Center for Sustainable Electrical Energy Systems is teaming up with Badger Technologies Group, a Port Washington-based engineering firm, on a contract to produce and test a hybrid energy storage system for the Ellsworth Air Force Base in South …