Post-Doctoral Researchers
2021-2024
Current Affiliation: Tulane University
wguo36@wisc.edu
“Study the past if you would define the future.”
-Confucius
Bingchen Wang
2021-2022
Current Affiliation: Seagate Technology LLC
bwang397@wisc.edu
“Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.”
-Steve Jobs
Graduate Students
2019-2024
Current Affiliation: Intel Corporation
rcashen@wisc.edu
“Everything flows and nothing abides; everything gives way and nothing is fixed.”
–Heraclitus
2019-2024
Current Affiliation: California Institute of Technology
bliu268@wisc.edu
“Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.”
-Carl Sagan
2019-2024
Current Affiliation: Micron Technology
jmmcalpine@wisc.edu
“If a seagull flies over the sea what flies over the bay?”
-Unknown
Undergraduate Students
AJ Schmeiser
2021-2024
Current Affiliation: UW-Madison
“It’s hard to live in color when you just see black and white.”
—Thomas Rhett
Isabelle LeCloux
2021-2023
Current Affilitation: UW-Madison
“We are responsible for our own ignorance or, with time and openhearted enlightenment, our own wisdom.”
-Isabel Wilkerson
Megan Donoghue
2020-2022
Current Affiliation: QuantumScape
“I believe that education is all about being excited about something. Seeing passion and enthusiasm helps push an educational message.”
-Steve Irwin
Theodore Puls
2023-2024
Current Affiliation: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company
“The future is not what it used to be.”
—Yogi Berra
Eli Rodeheaver
2022-2023
Current Affilitation: UW-Madison
“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.”
― Thomas A. Edison
Suzy Wu
2020-2022
Current Affiliation: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Chemical Engineering
“It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. Actually, who are you not to be?”
—Marianne Williamson
Alex Bloemendal
2020-2023
Current Affilitation: Cargill
“It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?”
-Henry David Thoreau
Gene Lee
2020-2022
Current Affiliation: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Chemical Engineering
“Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.”
– Bruce Lee
Muhammad Sajid
2020-2021
Current Affiliation: Pyran Inc.
“It is strange that only the extraordinary make the discoveries, which later appear so easy and simple.”
– Georg C. Lichtenberg
REU Students
Afrah Taheeya Ahmed
University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Summer 2024
“Dreams and reality are opposites. Action synthesizes them.”
― Assata Shakur
Adrian Gonzalez Marcano
University of Puerto Rico – Mayagüez
Summer 2022
“It is better to get wisdom than gold. It is better to choose understanding than silver.”
― King Solomon
Diego Luis Rosario Sánchez
University of Puerto Rico – Mayagüez
Summer 2022
“The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.”
-Stephen Hawking
Megan Herrington
The University of Tulsa
Summer 2022
“Science has taught me that everything is more complicated than we first assume, and that being able to derive happiness from discovery is a recipe for a beautiful life.”
― Hope Jahren, Lab Girl