College featured in the UWM Research Foundation 2025 Annual Report and video

Two men staring at a computer screen. The one on the left wearing a white, short-sleeved shirt and has dark hair. The man on the right has glasses, is wearing a black vest and long-sleeved t-shirt, and is bald.
Postdoctoral researcher Aakash Gupta (left) and Assistant Professor Qingsu Cheng, biomedical engineering, work on a project. Cheng has a disclosure with the UWMRF.

Several faculty members, graduate students and two alumni appear in the latest annual report of the UWM Research Foundation and its video celebrating the organization’s 20th anniversary.

The Research Foundation supports faculty and students in turning their research discoveries into patents and licensing, fostering commercial products, services, or startup companies. Since 2006, foundation support has led to 29 startup companies – 14 of them since 2021. More than 210 patents have been issued through the foundation and 91 are pending.

Annual Report faculty/alumni mentions

  • Catalyst Grant awardees: Feng Guo (electrical engineering); Ashwin Narasimhan and Priya Premnath (biomedical engineering); and Habib Rahman (mechanical & biomedical engineering).
  • Bridge grant winners: RoboHeal Innovations (Habib Rahman’s lab); Intelligence Composites (Pradeep Rohatgi, materials science & engineering, chief technical officer); and William Perry (’24 BS biomedical engineering).
  • Intellectual property: Brian Armstrong, Deyang Qu (mechanical engineering) and Bill Dussault (electrical engineering), provisional patent for “Tool to Monitor Cell Temperature in Battery Packs.”
  • New to the UWMRF Board of Directors: Dennis Webb (’71 BS materials science & engineering), incoming secretary

See the full report.

Members of the college shown in the video

Footage of the following appear in the 20th anniversary video, along with alum, board member and donor Dennis Webb, who has a speaking part.

  • Motakabbir Hossain and Md Mahafuzur Rahaman Khan, graduate students in the Rahman BioRobotics lab
  • Qingsu Cheng
  • Ashwin Narasimhan and Priya Premnath