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Susan C. Hagness
Born
Terre Haute, Indiana, U.S.
Alma materNorthwestern University
Known forFDTD theory and applications

Microwave-based diagnostic and therapeutic applications
Dielectric properties of breast tissue
Microwave breast imaging

Microwave thermal therapies
AwardsFellow of IEEE, AAAS, AIMBE, and NAI
Scientific career
Fields
InstitutionsUniversity of Wisconsin–Madison
Doctoral advisorAllen Taflove
Websitedirectory.engr.wisc.edu/ece/Faculty/Hagness_Susan

Susan Carol Hagness is an American electrical engineer and applied electromagnetics researcher and educator. She has been a member of the faculty of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Wisconsin–Madison since 1998 and currently holds the titles of Philip D. Reed Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Maria Stuchly Professor of Electrical Engineering.  She served as Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Affairs in the College of Engineering between 2014 and 2017 and has been serving as the Chair of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering since 2018. She is also a faculty affiliate of the Department of Biomedical Engineering and a member of the Imaging and Radiation Sciences program within the UW Carbone Cancer Center.

Early life and education

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Hagness was born and raised in Terre Haute, Indiana where she was encouraged by Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology mathematics professor Herb Bailey to pursue a career in STEM.[1] Hagness earned her BS in electrical engineering with highest honors in 1993 and her PhD in electrical engineering 1998, both at Northwestern University where she pursued research in computational electromagnetics with the now late Allen Taflove. As a graduate student, Hagness was asked to assist with Northwestern's new "Engineering First" curriculum, inspiring her to pursue a career in teaching.

Career

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After graduating, Hagness chose to accept a faculty position at the University of Wisconsin–Madison (UW–Madison). As an assistant professor, she was the recipient of a 2000 Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineer[2] (PECASE) and was named one of the world's 100 top young innovators by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's magazine, Technology Review.[3] She was selected to participate in the National Academy of Engineering's 7th Annual Symposium on Frontiers of Engineering in 2002 and received the 2003 Emil H. Steiger Distinguished Teaching Award from UW-Madison[4] and the 2004 IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society Early Career Achievement Award. She was promoted to associate professor with tenure in 2004 and to full professor in 2007.

Additional recognitions of her research, teaching, and mentoring excellence include the International Union of Radio Science Issac Koga Gold Medal (2005), the IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering Outstanding Paper Award (2007), the IEEE Education Society Mac E. Van Valkenburg Early Career Teaching Award (2007), the UW System Alliant Energy Underkofler Excellence in Teaching Award (2009), the Physics in Medicine and Biology Citations Prize (2011), the UW-Madison Kellett Mid-Career Award (2011),[5] the Sven Berggren Prize from the Royal Physiographic Society in Lund, Sweden (2015),[6] the UW-Madison Women Faculty Mentoring Program Slesinger Award for Excellence in Mentoring (2017),[7] and UW-Madison College of Engineering awards for teaching (2014), research (2018), and equity and diversity efforts (2021). In 2024, she received a UW-Madison WARF named professorship, which she chose to name in honor of the late Maria Stuchly.[8]

Hagness was elected a Fellow of the IEEE in 2009 for her "contributions to time-domain computational electromagnetics and microwave medical imaging."[9] She was also named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2021 "for distinguished contributions to computational and experimental applied electromagnetics, with an emphasis on bioelectromagnetics and the development of diagnostic and therapeutic technologies for biomedical applications".[10][11] In 2022 she was elected a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) "for pioneering contributions to diagnostic and therapeutic applications of microwave interactions with human tissue",[12] and a Fellow of the National Academic of Inventors (NAI).[13]

She has held a variety of appointed and elected leadership roles within the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society, the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, the U.S. National Committee of the International Union of Radio Science (URSI), the ASEE Engineering Research Council, and the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department Heads Association.  She was selected as a Fellow in the Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC, now the Big Ten Academic Alliance) Academic Leadership Program in 2014–15.

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Sheppard, Laurel M. (October 2002). "Not Your Mother's Mammography" (PDF). ece.northwestern.edu. Retrieved November 29, 2020.
  2. ^ Mattmiller, Brian (October 24, 2000). "Two receive presidential honors for research". news.wisc.edu. Retrieved November 29, 2020.
  3. ^ "Local Professor honored Susan Hagness". Wisconsin State Journal. May 28, 2002. Retrieved November 30, 2020 – via newspapers.com.
  4. ^ Wolff, Barbara (April 3, 2003). "UW-Madison honors eight faculty for outstanding teaching". news.wisc.edu. Retrieved November 30, 2020.
  5. ^ Sakai, Jill (March 29, 2011). "Eleven faculty members named Kellett award winners". news.wisc.edu. Retrieved November 30, 2020.
  6. ^ Brodt, Lexy (November 13, 2015). "ECE professor accepts Sven Berggren prize in Lund, Sweden". preview.engr.wisc.edu. Retrieved November 30, 2020.
  7. ^ Cushman, Will (October 12, 2018). "Hagness' mentorship lifts women colleagues". engr.wisc.edu. Retrieved November 30, 2020.
  8. ^ Daley, Jason (2024-08-05). "Hagness receives WARF Named Professorship". College of Engineering – University of Wisconsin-Madison. Retrieved 2024-12-30.
  9. ^ Maria a (2009). "AP-S Members of 2009 Class of IEEE Fellows". IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine. 50 (6): 173–174. doi:10.1109/MAP.2008.4768959. Retrieved November 30, 2020.
  10. ^ Malecek, Adam (2022-02-02). "Hagness elected AAAS Fellow". College of Engineering – University of Wisconsin-Madison. Retrieved 2024-12-30.
  11. ^ "National science organization AAAS grants fellowship status to 13 from UW". news.wisc.edu. Retrieved 2024-12-30.
  12. ^ Malecek, Adam (2022-02-18). "Brace, Hagness, Saha elected AIMBE Fellows". College of Engineering – University of Wisconsin-Madison. Retrieved 2024-12-30.
  13. ^ "UW researchers honored for inventions". news.wisc.edu. Retrieved 2024-12-30.
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