Department Chair

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Laura Albert


David. H. Gustafson Dept. Chair of Industrial & Systems Engineering


 

Faculty & Instructional Staff

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Oguzhan Alagoz


Procter & Gamble Bascom Professor

Contact: alagoz@engr.wisc.edu, (608) 890-0399

Research interests: Operations research, stochastic optimization, medical decision making, completely and partially observable Markov decision processes, simulation, scheduling, health-care applications, health-technology assessme...

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Other affiliations: Department of Population Health Sciences


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Justin Boutilier


Assistant Professor

Contact: jboutilier@wisc.edu, (608) 263-0350

Research interests: Operations research, machine learning, data-driven optimization, global health, emergency response, disease management, mHealth technology, public sector applications

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Alberto Del-pia


Associate Professor

Contact: delpia@wisc.edu, (608) 316-4365

Research interests: Mathematical optimization, Discrete mathematics, Mathematics of data science

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Other affiliations: Wisconsin Institute for Discovery


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John Lee


Emerson Electric Quality & Productivity Professor

Contact: jdlee@engr.wisc.edu, (608) 890-3168

Also: Civil and Environmental Engineering

Research interests: Cognitive engineering, Interface design, Trust in automation, Human adaptation to technology, Modeling human behavior

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Jeffrey Linderoth


Harvey D. Spangler Professor

Contact: linderoth@wisc.edu, (608) 890-1931

Also: Computer Sciences

Research interests:  High Performance and Grid Computing, Numerical Optimization: Integer programming and Stochastic programming

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Kaibo Liu


Professor

Contact: kliu8@wisc.edu, (608) 890-3546

Research interests: System Informatics and Big Data Analytics, Data Fusion for Process Modeling, Monitoring, Diagnosis, Prognostics, and Decision Making, Statistical Learning, Machine Learning, and Data Mining, Statistical Process...

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Other affiliations: Manufacturing Systems Engineering Program


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Jim Luedtke


Professor

Contact: jim.luedtke@wisc.edu, (608) 890-2560

Also: Computer Sciences

Research interests: Stochastic optimization, especially optimization with risk constraints, Mixed integer optimization, linear and nonlinear, Applications of optimization

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Other affiliations: Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery


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Terry Mann


Senior Lecturer


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Tony McDonald


Assistant Professor

Contact: admcdonald@wisc.edu

Research interests: Machine learning, Human factors, Human behavior modeling, Fatigue, Automated vehicles


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Ranjana Mehta


Professor

Contact: ranjana.mehta@wisc.edu

Research interests: Neuroergonomics, Occupational Fatigue, HRI/HCI, Adaptive interfaces, BCI/BMI, Human Performance in high-risk environments


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Carla Michini


Assistant Professor

Contact: michini@wisc.edu

Research interests: Carla's research is motivated by the practical relevance of combinatorial optimization and integer programming in real-world problems, and it is triggered by applications in various fields, ranging from m...


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Yonatan Mintz


Assistant Professor

Contact: ymintz@wisc.edu

Research interests: Sequential decision making and reinforcement learning, Precision healthcare, Machine learning and statistical inference, Fairness,accountability, and transparency in decision making, Optimization

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Hantang Qin


Assistant Professor


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Robert G. Radwin


Duane H. and Dorothy M. Bluemke Professor

Contact: rradwin@wisc.edu, (608) 263-6596

Also: Biomedical Engineering

Research interests: Occupational ergonomics and biomechanics, Ergonomics design of manually operated products, hand tools and equipment, Measurements and methods for assessing exposure to physical stress in the workplace, Ca...

Other affiliations: Wisconsin Institute for Discovery


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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

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Other affiliations: Manufacturing Systems Engineering Program


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Hannah Silber


Lecturer


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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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Raj Veeramani


E-
Business Chair Professor
Executive Director: UW E-Business Consortium and UW E-Business Institute
Founding Director: UW IoT Systems Research Center

Contact: raj.veeramani@wisc.edu, (608) 262-0861

Also: Interdisciplinary Professional Programs, UW E-Business Consortium

Research interests: Industrial data analytics and intelligent decision-making, Data science and AI enabled business process improvement and automation, Internet of Things (IoT), Smart manufacturing and connected enterprise, Supply...


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Xin Wang


Assistant Professor


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Douglas Wiegmann


Professor
Associate Chair for Graduate Affairs

Contact: dawiegmann@wisc.edu, (608) 890-1932

Research interests: Cognitive Systems Engineering, System Safety, Accident Investigation, Human Error Analysis, Aviation, Healthcare

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Qiaomin Xie


Assistant Professor

Contact: qiaomin.xie@wisc.edu

Research interests: Reinforcement Learning, Applied Probability, Stochastic Networks, Computer and Communication Networks


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Jiao Xu


Lecturer

Contact: jxu25@wisc.edu


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Charlene Yauch


Professor of Practice, Director for Center for Quick Response Manufacturing


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Gabriel Zayas-Cabán


Assistant Professor

Contact: zayascaban@wisc.edu, (608) 999-0246

Research interests: Operations research, Markov decision processes, queueing, scheduling, causal inference, healthcare delivery, emergency medicine, care transitions

Other affiliations: School of Medicine and Public Health


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Shiyu Zhou


Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor

Contact: szhou@engr.wisc.edu, (608) 262-9534

Research interests: Modeling and analysis of the variation propagation and other in-process sensing data in complex manufacturing processes., In-process quality and productivity improvement: diagnosis of complicated manufacturing ...

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Other affiliations: Manufacturing Systems Engineering Program


 

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...

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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

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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

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Jerry L. Sanders


Professor Emeritus

Contact: jlsanders@wisc.edu

Research interests: Automatic Assembly Systems, stochastic processes, flame cutting layout procedures, production systems

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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: suri@engr.wisc.edu, (608) 262-4709

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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Other affiliations: Center for Quick Response Manufacturing


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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

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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

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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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Robert Nowak


Keith and Jane Morgan Nosbusch Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering,
and Grace Wahba Professor of Data Science, On sabbatical for 2023-2024 academic year

Contact: rdnowak@wisc.edu, (608) 265-3914

Also: Biomedical Engineering, Computer Sciences

Research interests: Signal and information processing, machine learning, optimization and statistics

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David Noyce


Executive Associate Dean and Arthur F. Hawnn Professor

Contact: danoyce@wisc.edu, (608) 265-1882

Also: Civil and Environmental Engineering

Research interests: Advanced Traffic Operations, Vehicle-to-Vehicle and Vehicle-to-Infrastructure Communication Technology, Transportation and Construction Safety, Pedestrian and Bicycle Operations and Safety, Driver Behavior and ...

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Other affiliations: Wisconsin Transportation Center


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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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Edmond Ramly


Assistant Professor

Contact: ramly@wisc.edu, (608) 698-4656


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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

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Other affiliations: Population Health Sciences


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Linsey Steege


Assistant Professor

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

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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.

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Other affiliations: Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery


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Victor M. Zavala


Baldovin-DaPra Professor

Contact: victor.zavala@wisc.edu

Research interests: Control, Optimization, Data Science, Energy and Environmental Systems 


 

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