Faculty & Instructional Staff

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Terry Mann


Senior Lecturer


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Todd Molfenter


Research Professor

Contact: todd.molfenter@chess.wisc.edu, (608) 262-1685

Courses: Click to see my courses


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Hannah Silber


Teaching Faculty


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Amanda Smith


Assistant Teaching Professor
Associate Chair for Undergraduate Affairs

Contact: amanda.smith@wisc.edu, (608) 890-3423


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Sinan Tas


Teaching Faculty II
Advisor and Director, Accelerated Masters Program

Contact: tas@wisc.edu


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Jiao Xu


Lecturer

Contact: jxu25@wisc.edu


 

Emeritus Professors

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Vicki Bier


Professor Emeritus

Contact: bier@engr.wisc.edu

Also: Nuclear Engineering and Engineering Physics

Research interests: Security in the supply chains for food and agricultural products, critical infrastructure protection, security, technology hazards, risk analysis, decision analysis, operations research

Other affiliations: Center for Human Performance and Risk Analysis


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Patricia Brennan


Professor Emeritus

Contact: pfbrenna@wisc.edu, (608) 263-5251


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Pascale Carayon


Professor Emerita

Contact: Pcarayon@wisc.edu, (608) 265-0503

Also: Biomedical Engineering

Research interests:


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Dennis G. Fryback


Professor Emeritus

Contact: dfryback@wisc.edu , (608) 262-5997

Research interests: Measuring population health, Measuring health outcomes, Bayesian statistics applied to uncertainty analysis in complex models, Cost-effectiveness evaluation in health care, Simulation modeling in health care sy...

Courses: Click to see my courses

Other affiliations: Population Health Sciences, Center for Health Systems Research and Analysis, University of Wisconsin Comprehensive Cancer Center


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David Gustafson


Emeritus Research Professor

Contact: dhgustaf@facstaff.wisc.edu, (608) 263-4882

Research interests: Integration of decision, change and information theory to develop, test and disseminate information technology to improve health and to use the research results to develop tools to support organizational proble...

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Other affiliations: Center for Quality and Productivity Improvement


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Jingshan Li


Professor Emeritus

Contact: jingshan@engr.wisc.edu, (608) 890-3780

Research interests: Modeling, analysis, design, control and continuous improvement of production and health care systems

Courses: Click to see my courses

Other affiliations: Manufacturing Systems Engineering Program


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Stephen M. Robinson


Professor Emeritus

Contact: smrobins@wisc.edu, (608) 263-6862

Also: Computer Sciences

Research interests: Variational analysis and optimization, Quantitative methods in managerial economics, Methods to support decision under uncertainty

Courses: Click to see my courses


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Leyuan Shi


Professor

Contact: leyuan@engr.wisc.edu, (608) 265-5969

Research interests: Simulation modeling, large-scale optimization, supply chain optimization, production planning and scheduling

Courses: Click to see my courses

Other affiliations: Manufacturing Systems Engineering Program


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Michael J. Smith


Professor Emeritus

Contact: mjsmith@cae.wisc.edu, (608) 263-6329

Research interests: Human factors and ergonomics, occupational safety, job-related stress, work organization design and management, job design

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Harold Steudel


Professor Emeritus

Contact: steudel@ie.engr.wisc.edu, (608) 262-9927

Research interests: Development of statistical modeling, analysis and management techniques for the design and improvement of manufacturing systems such areas as the design, evaluation and management of continuous flow/cellular ma...

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Other affiliations: Manufacturing Systems Engineering Program


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Rajan Suri


Professor Emeritus

Contact: rajan.suri@wisc.edu, (608) 262-2686

Also: Interdisciplinary Professional Programs

Research interests: Lead time reduction and quick response manufacturing, POLCA and other alternatives to Kanban for material control, queuing network models for manufacturing systems analysi

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Arne Thesen


Professor Emeritus

Contact:

Research interests: Selective assembly, manufacturing systems, simulation, heuristic optimization

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David R. Zimmerman


Professor Emeritus

Contact: davidz@chsra.wisc.edu, (608) 263-4875

Research interests: Health systems, health services research, evaluation of quality of long term care, outcome measurement, decision support systems, human resource management

Courses: Click to see my courses

Other affiliations: Center for Health Systems Research and Analysis


 

Affiliate Appointments

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Peter Chien


Professor

Contact: peter.chien@wisc.edu, (608) 262-2537

Research interests: Statistical perspectives of popular puzzles, A/B testing (aka, statistical design for online experiments), and statistical machine learning

Other affiliations: Statistics


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Gregory A. DeCroix


Professor

Contact: gdecroix@bus.wisc.edu, (608) 265-6083

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Michael Ferris


Professor

Contact: ferris@cs.wisc.edu, 6082624281OR2621204

Also: Computer Sciences

Research interests: Mathematical programming, modeling and applications of operations research, complementarity problems, radiation therapy planning, numerical algorithms

Courses: Click to see my courses


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Andrea Gilmore-Bykovskyi


Associate Professor

Contact: algilmore@wisc.edu, (608) 262-3057

Research interests: Care for people with Alzheimer's disease and related dementia, Geriatric emergency medicine, Equity in care and research, Algorithmic fairness 

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Brian W. Patterson


Assistant Professor

Contact: bpatter@medicine.wisc.edu, (608) 265-6043

Also: Biostatistics and Medical Informatics

Research interests: Antimicrobial Stewardship, Geriatric Emergency Medicine, Clinical Informatics


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Kevin Ponto


Assistant Professor

Contact: kevin.ponto@wisc.edu, (608) 265-3958

Research interests: Virtual Reality, Human-Computer Interaction, Data Visualization, Computer Graphics and Vision, Media Art and Technology, Visual Analytics


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Michael S. Pulia


Assistant Professor

Contact: mspulia@medicine.wisc.edu, (608) 890-5292

Also: BerbeeWalsh Department of Emergency Medicine, UW SMPH

Research interests: Antimicrobial Stewardship, Diagnostic Error, Infectious Diseases, Geriatric Emergency Medicine


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Andrew Quanbeck


Assistant Professor

Contact: arquanbe@wisc.edu, (608) 262-7385


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Thomas Rutherford


Professor

Contact: rutherford@aae.wisc.edu

Research interests: Energy markets, climate policy, international trade, technical change and computational economics


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Nasia Safdar


Associate Professor

Contact: ns2@medicine.wisc.edu, (608) 263-1545


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Dhavan V. Shah


Professor

Contact: dshah@facstaff.wisc.edu, (608) 262-0388

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Maureen Smith


Professor

Contact: maureensmith@wisc.edu, (608) 262-4802

Courses: Click to see my courses

Other affiliations: Population Health Sciences


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Linsey Steege


Professor

Contact: lsteege@wisc.edu, (608) 263-5191

Courses: Click to see my courses

Other affiliations: School of Nursing


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Stephen J. Wright


Professor

Contact: swright@cs.wisc.edu, (608) 262-4838

Also: Computer Sciences

Research interests: Optimization and its Applications in all areas of Science and Engineering.

Courses: Click to see my courses

Other affiliations: Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery


 

Honorary Associates

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Paul Kantor


Honorary Associate / Fellow

Contact: pkantor@wisc.edu, (732) 322-8412

Research interests: Homeland Security; Information Retrieval; Mathematical Modeling; Qualantative Research Methods and Qualantactics


 

 

Administrative Staff

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Renae Beier


Assistant Department Administrator

Contact: rbeier@wisc.edu, 608890851


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Jane Sartori Feller


Communications Specialist

Contact: jfeller3@wisc.edu, (608) 890-1617


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Dave Kantor


Academic Department Supervisor

Contact: dkantor@wisc.edu, (608) 263-3214


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Cody Legreid


Accountant

Contact: clegreid@wisc.edu, (608) 265-5941

Also: College of Engineering


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Kelly Petersen


Main Office Manager

Contact: kmpetersen2@wisc.edu, (608) 262-2686

Also: College of Engineering


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Gamze Randolph


Research Administrator

Contact: grandolph@wisc.edu, (608) 265-5474


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Shalini Shatadal


Research Administrator



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Casandra Zimmerman


Academic Communications Specialist


 

Student Services


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Missy Moreau


Academic Advisor

Contact: moreau2@wisc.edu, (608) 265-9585

Also: Student Services, Mechanical Engineering, Industrial and Systems Engineering


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Pam Peterson


Academic Advising Director / Graduate Student Services

Contact: prpeterson@wisc.edu, (608) 263-4025

Also: College of Engineering, Student Services, Industrial and Systems Engineering



 

Research Staff

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Joonbum Lee


Scientist

Contact: joonbum.lee@wisc.edu

Research interests: Human factors, Automated vehicles, Driver-automation teaming, Human-machine interface design and evaluation, Driver behavior modeling, Naturalistic driving study