Spark Grant Recipients

Past WiSys Spark Grant Recipients

2022-23 Recipients

  • Bom Soo Kim, UW-Parkside - "Investigating Interactions Between Skyrmions and Magnons in Insulating Magnets"
  • Dipankar Mitra, UW-La Crosse - "Development of Flexible and Wearable Phased Array Antenna System (PAAS) for Astronaut's Bodysuits Applications"
  • Gina Martin, UW-Whitewater - "Eye Movements as Emotional Release"
  • Mandeep Bakshi, UW-Green Bay - "Applications of Surface Active Magnetic Nanoparticles in Containing Oil Spills"
  • Nader Safari-Shad, UW-Platteville - "Performance Verification of a Generator Stator Winding Intermittent Ground Fault Protection Scheme"
  • Sujat Sen, UW-La Crosse - "Rapid Capture and Conversion of CO2 to Fuels Using Nanofluid Suspension Electrodes"
  • Zhaohui Li, UW-Parkside - "Raw and Heat-Treated Calcite and Dolomite for the Removal of Color Dyes from Single and Mixed Solutions"

2021-22 Recipients

  • Mandeep Bakshi, UW-Green Bay - "Probing “Microplastics” in Lake Michigan: Origin, Pathways, and Chemical Composition"
  • William Parker, UW-Parkside - "Vapor Chamber-Enhanced Thermoelectric Freezing"
  • Zhezhen Fu, UW-Platteville - "Tuning mechanical properties of high-entropy Li-garnet solid-state electrolyte"
  • Michelle DeBoer, UW-River Falls - "Innovative Insulated Medication Container"
  • Michael Hammer, UW-Whitewater - "Patterned Direct Stimulation of the Laryngeal Mucosa - New Clinical Approaches to Laryngeal Sensory Abnormalities"

2020-21 Recipients

  • Krysti Knoche Gupta, UW-Eau Claire - "Bioelectrochemical methanol sensors with lower detection limits"
  • Ali AlQahtani, UW-Green Bay - "CIPS: Continuous Indoor Positioning System"
  • Mike Zorn, UW-Green Bay - "Smartphone Based Colorimeter/Fluorimeter for Multiple Water Testing Applications"
  • Valeria Stepanova, UW-La Crosse - "Development of efficient one-pot solvent-free synthesis of asymmetric curcuminoids"
  • Bom Soo Kim, UW-Parkside - "Improving the accuracy of the chiral magnetic skyrmion motion in the racetrack memory devices"
  • Zhaohui Li, UW-Parkside - "Earth Materials for the Removal of Mixed Color Dyes from Wastewater"
  • Ryan Pralle, UW-Platteville - "Predicting Milk Phosphorous Content with FTIR Spectroscopy via Machine Learning"
  • Cheng-Chen Huang, UW-River Falls - "Developing New Intervention for Cancer Growth and Metastasis Through Studying Natural Products That Induce Cell Aggregation"
  • Yuan Xing, UW-Stout - "Aritifical Intelligent Wireless Power Transfer Systems"
  • Steven Girard, UW-Whitewater - "Development of Bioglass-silicide Coatings for Osseointegratable Metal Implants"

2019-20 Recipients

  • Jennifer Kleine, UW-La Crosse, "Development of a novel epigenetic biomarker for food allergen tolerance during immunotherapy"
  • Yujuan Liu, UW-Parkside - "Development of Organic Polymer/Dye Composite Material for Phenol Detection"
  • Mehdi Roopaei, UW-Platteville - "Edge analytics in disaster information management
  • Lathadevi (Karuna) Chintapenta, UW-River Falls, "Isolation and identification of bioactive compounds from the bacteria Burkholderia sp. for use in agriculture and sustainable management"
  • Rebecca Haley, UW-River Falls, "Mechanochemical deoxygenation of carbonyl compounds for biomass upgrading"
  • Matthew O'Reilly, UW-River Falls - "Discovery of novel analogs as dihydrofolate reductase inhibitors with narrow and broad spectrum antibiotic activity"
  • Pranabendu Mitra, UW-Stout - "Effect of fortification of cranberry pomaces and different vegetables on the physicochemical and nutritional qualities of nutritionally balanced high fiber and antioxidant value-added baked product cookies"
  • Prajukti (Juk) Bhattacharyya, UW-Whitewater - "Deployable early warning system for landslide, mudslide avalanche and other similar mass wasting hazards based on multi-modal sensing mechanisms and built-in algorithm"

2018-19 Recipients

  • David Lewis, UW-Eau Claire - "Reversible DNA imaging agents"
  • Mandeep Bakshi, UW-Green Bay - "Regenerative Biodiesel Micro-emulsions for Cleaning Automobile Engine"
  • Paul Schweiger, UW-La Crosse - "One-pot vitamin C synthesis"
  • Zhaohui Li, UW-Parkside - "Development of high efficiency materials for the removal of ethidium bromide from water in case of spill"
  • Ranis Ibragimov, UW-Parkside - "Semi-analytical correlation between west to east atmospheric flows and stability of the polar vortex affected by the effects of the Earth's rotation"
  • Mohammad Rabbani, UW-Platteville - "Metal organic frameworks for water purification"
  • Jim Hamilton, UW-Platteville - "The ROSE Process (reactive organic solvent etching)"
  • Samuel Alvarado, UW-River Falls - "Novel polymer-quantum dot composite materials"
  • Casie Bass, UW-River Falls - "Intrauterine device protocol development in mares"
  • Balamurugan Pandiyan, UW-Whitewater - "Modeling thyroid cancer"