Junjie Niu and Prasenjit Guptasarma will each present a show for UWM’s Science Bag series, a live show for older kids and adults that gets into the popular science behind everyday life. In February, Niu, associate professor, materials science & …
Two alumni from the college have been promoted to leadership roles at GRAEF – a Milwaukee-based engineering, planning and design firm – in the company’s structural engineering arm. Steve Rech (’00 MS and ’98 BS, Civil Engineering) serves as the firm’s …
Shamar Webster, a recent master’s degree graduate in computer science, co-created a factory-specific chatbox that allows workers at manufacturing plants to use natural language to interact with the production line and receive immediate answers to questions. Webster worked with Microsoft’s …
The college welcomes Sadia Nowrin, Teaching Faculty II in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department. Most recently, Nowrin was a doctoral research assistant at Michigan Technological University. Her research focuses on human-computer interaction, user accessibility, and natural language processing. But …
Associate Professor Wilkistar Otieno is beginning her 2023-24 fellowship in ELATES at Drexel®, a national executive leadership development program. ELATES at Drexel® is designed to transform women senior faculty, and faculty allies of all genders, into effective leaders within their universities, dedicated to increasing the …
Junjie Niu, Richard & Joanne Grigg associate professor of materials science and engineering, was named the 2023 STEM Forward Engineer of the Year. The award recognizes outstanding contributors to the engineering profession from the greater Milwaukee area. STEM Forward is …
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 …
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 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 …
