The Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research (OVCR) has announced the recipients of the 2024 Early Career Innovator Award, which recognizes four UW–Madison early career faculty for engaging in technology transfer and commercialization activities and transforming their research discoveries into inventions for the public good.
This year’s awardees are: Joao Reboucas Dorea, assistant professor of precision agriculture and data analytics; Chirag Gupta, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering; Reinier Hernandez, assistant professor of medical physics; and Shubhra S. Pasayat, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering.
“UW-Madison is a great place to be an innovator, and this year’s awardees are a testament to that fact. Each has successfully combined knowledge and imagination to generate technologies and products to help solve our nation’s continuing and emerging challenges – from those facing dairy farmers, to treating advanced metastatic cancers,” says Cynthia Czajkowski, interim vice chancellor for research. “These early career inventors embody the Wisconsin Idea by bringing their discoveries to market, and we are excited to see where their transformative discoveries and future innovations will lead. Recognizing early career faculty for their entrepreneurship is one was we elevate the rich history of UW–Madison researchers and discoveries leading to innovations for the public good.”
These awardees were selected by the OVCR from a list of finalists provided by the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF). Awardees receive $50,000 in funding. Each has had multiple disclosures and inventions accepted for commercialization.
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