Majid AFSHAR
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Medicine

Predictive analytics (diagnostics and prognostics) using electronic health record data and public health data for individuals with critical illness and substance misuse

Karthik ANANTHARAMAN
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Bacteriology

Unraveling the role of microbiomes in the environment, human health and disease

Alan ATTIE
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Biochemistry

Genetics of type 2 diabetes; gene networks and diabetes

Joe AUSTERWEIL
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Psychology

Development of computational models of how people learn and use their representations using recent advances in computer science and statistics

David BEEBE
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Biomedical Engineering

Development and use of cellular scale systems to study basic cellular processes such as stem/progenitor cell regulation/differentiation in the mammary gland

Christopher BRADFIELD
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Oncology

Understanding the family of transcriptional regulators known as PAS proteins and their signal transduction pathways

Karl BROMAN
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Biostatistics and Medical Informatics

Statistical problems in genetics, genomics, and molecular biology, particularly the development of improved methods for detecting and identifying genes contributing to variation in complex traits in humans and experimental organisms

Elizabeth BURNSIDE
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Radiology; Biostatistics and Medical Informatics

The use of computational methods to improve decision-making in the domain of breast imaging in the pursuit of improving the population based screening and diagnosis of breast cancer

Guanhua CHEN
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Biostatistics and Medical Informatics

Development of statistical learning methods for clinical and biomedical research

Moo CHUNG
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Biostatistics and Medical Informatics

Statistics and image analysis

Matthew CHURPEK
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Medicine

Utilization of electronic health record data and machine learning techniques, such as natural language processing and deep learning, to identify patients at risk for clinical deterioration, sepsis, acute kidney injury, and other syndromes of critical illness

Joshua COON
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Chemistry

Bioanalytical chemistry, mass spectrometry and proteomics

George CRACIUN
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Mathematics

Mathematical and computational methods in biology and medicine

Mark CRAVEN
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Biostatistics and Medical Informatics

Development and application of machine-learning methods to inferring models that characterize networks of interactions among genes, proteins, clinical and environmental factors, and phenotypes of interest

Cameron CURRIE
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Bacteriology

Symbiotic associations between animals and microbes; Antibiotic discovery

Colin DEWEY
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Biostatistics and Medical Informatics

Algorithms for problems in comparative genomics

Huy DINH
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Oncology

Understanding how the tumor immune microenvironment changes toward finding immunotherapeutic biomarkers and targets

Corinne ENGELMAN
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Population Health Sciences

Genetic epidemiology; complex diseases and quantitative traits of aging such as Alzheimer’s disease, cognitive function, vitamin D deficiency, type 2 diabetes, and insulin resistance

Michael FERRIS
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Computer Sciences

Developing software that converts nonlinear programs into complementarity problems without human interaction, using automatic differentiation techniques

Audrey GASCH
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Genetics

Genomics of yeast responses to environmental stress and starvation

Andrea GILMORE-BYKOVSKYI
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School of Nursing

Promoting effective, meaningful, equitable care and research for those living with and at risk for Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias

Anthony GITTER
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Morgridge Institute for Research; Biostatistics and Medical Informatics

Development of computational approaches to reconstruct signaling pathways and transcriptional regulatory networks from multiple types of high-throughput data using techniques from machine learning and graph theory, with an emphasis on dynamic networks and disease applications in virology and oncology

Michael GLEICHER
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Computer Sciences

Computer animation, video processing, and medical visualization to develop tools that help people express themselves in visual media, and to make these media more expressive, educational, and entertaining

Jo HANDELSMAN
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Wisconsin Institute for Discovery

Understanding the structure and function of microbiomes through use of multidisciplinary techniques

Scott HEBBRING
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Marshfield Clinic Research Institute

Multidisciplinary approach to understand disease etiology and pathophysiology; combining genetics and comprehensive patient electronic medical records (Phenome-Wide Association Studies) with functional genomics

Sunduz KELES
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Statistics; Biostatistics and Medical Informatics

Development and application of statistical and computational methods for problems arising in genome biology and computational biology

Christina KENDZIORSKI
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Biostatistics and Medical Informatics

Development and application of statistical methods for statistical methods and software for the analysis of data from high-throughput genomics experiments

Pamela KREEGER
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Biomedical Engineering

Systems biology; endocrine signaling

Jason KWAN
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School of Pharmacy

Development of metagenomic binning algorithms; Mining the cultured and uncultured biosphere for new drugs

Qiongshi LU
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Biostatistics and Medical Informatics

Development of statistical and computational methods to study complex trait genetics

Anoop MAYAMPURATH
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Biostatistics and Medical Informatics

Development of machine learning models for predicting outcomes in hospitalized children

M. Elizabeth MEYERAND
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Biomedical Engineering

Development of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) based acquisition and post-processing methods to visualize diffusion and activation in the human brain

Peter MUIR
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Surgical Sciences, School of Veterinary Medicine

Skeletal adaptation to loading, stress fractures, genomic dissection of orthopedic traits, cruciate rupture in dogs, long bone fracture repair, and clinical trials evaluating canine arthritis treatment

Michael NEWTON
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Biostatistics and Medical Informatics

Developing statistical methods to address problems in the biological sciences and genomic data integration

Robert NOWAK
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Electrical and Computer Engineering

Theory, algorithms, and applications in signal and image processing, pattern recognition, biomedical data analysis, networking, and wireless communications

David O’CONNOR
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Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Examination of large genomics and immunological datasets to understand how genetic heterogeneity influences cellular immune responses, and in turn defines susceptibility or resistance to RNA viruses.

Shelby O’CONNOR
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Pathobiology and Laboratory Medicine
Irene ONG
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Obstetrics & Gynecology

Data mining, artificial intelligence, machine learning, probabilistic methods, dynamical models, inductive logic programming, and statistical relational learning with applications to biological and medical data

Pilar OSSORIO
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School of Law

Governance of large-scale biosciences research; protections for people who participate in research; data sharing; ethics of “big data” science and uses of race in research and medicine

Brian PATTERSON
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Emergency Medicine

Use of routinely collected clinical data to generate actionable insights to improve the quality and safety of emergency care for older adults

Bret PAYSEUR
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Genetics

Population genetic processes that determine patterns and levels of variation throughout the genome, including natural selection, recombination, and mutations

Caitlin PEPPERELL
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Medicine

Ecology and evolution of infectious diseases

Nicole PERNA
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Genetics

Development and application of genome-scale analysis tools to study molecular and organismal evolution

Kevin PONTO
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Design Studies; Wisconsin Institute for Discovery

Virtual reality; human-computer interaction; data visualization; computer graphics & vision

Vivek PRABHAKARAN
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Radiology

Development of fMRI and other multimodal neuroimaging methods and tools for neurotranslational research

Federico REY
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Bacteriology

Gut bacterial metabolism and human health

Sushmita ROY
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Biostatistics and Medical Informatics; Wisconsin Institute for Discovery

Development of statistical computational methods to identify the networks driving cellular functions by integrating different types of genome-wide datasets, that measure different aspects of the cellular state

Nasia SAFDAR
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Infectious Disease, Dept. of Medicine

Novel interventions to reduce and prevent healthcare associated infections

David SCHNEIDER
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Surgery

Surgeon informatics; natural language processing

Steven SCHRODI
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Genetics

Probabilistic methods applied to genomics; inflammatory disease mapping; cytokine networks; linkage disequilibrium theory; disease models

David C. SCHWARTZ
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Chemistry; Genetics

Chemistry and biology of single molecule systems with applications to genomic science

Alessandro SENES
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Biochemistry

Computational and experimental studies of integral membrane proteins folding and structure

Sanjay SHUKLA
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Marshfield Clinic Research Institute

Investigation of how microbial and host (human) genetics interact during an infectious disease process; oral and system health informatics

Vikas SINGH
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Biostatistics and Medical Informatics

Design and analysis of new algorithms for image analysis

Melissa SKALA
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Biomedical Engineering

Development of new methods to understand and combat cancer using photonics-based technologies

Lloyd SMITH
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Chemistry

Development and application of novel bioanalytical tools

Garret SUEN
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Bacteriology

Systems biology, computational biology, bioinformatics, genomics, metagenomics, biotechnology, ruminant models for human host-microbe symbioses

Michael SUSSMAN
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Biochemistry

Signal transduction in eukaryotes, development of genomic technologies, plasma membrane receptors and ion transporters, Arabidopsis thaliana

Daifeng WANG
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Biostatistics and Medical Informatics

Development of machine learning approaches and bioinformatics tools to study complex biological systems, including brains and brain disorder

Brian YANDELL
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Statistics

Statistical genomics; theoretical statistics; applications in selected areas of biology

John YIN
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Chemical Engineering

Combined experimental-theoretical approaches for molecular virology; bioinformatics; pre-biotic chemistry; systems biology