Department Chair
Jeffrey Linderoth
Harvey D. Spangler Professor and David H. Gustafson Department Chair
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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ISyE Professors
Oguzhan Alagoz
Proctor and 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
Laura Albert
Professor; Harvey D. Spangler Faculty Scholar
Contact: laura@engr.wisc.edu, (608) 262-3002
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Other affiliations: Wisconsin Institute for Discovery
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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Pascale Carayon
Leon and Elizabeth Janssen Professor in the College of Engineering
Contact: Pcarayon@wisc.edu, (608) 265-0503
Also: Biomedical Engineering
Research interests:
- human factors and ergonomics, job and organizational design, quality and productivity improvement; quality of working life, technological and organizational change, human factors and systems eng...
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Other affiliations: Center for Quality and Productivity Improvement
Alberto Del-pia
Associate Professor
Contact: delpia@wisc.edu, (608) 316-4365
Also: Computer Sciences
Research interests: Alberto Del Pia’s research is concerned with theoretical and algorithmic aspects of mixed-integer optimization, with a special emphasis in linear, quadratic, and polynomial objective functions. Other inte...
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Other affiliations: Wisconsin Institute for Discovery
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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Jingshan Li
Professor
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
Kaibo Liu
Associate 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
James Luedtke
Professor and Associate Chair of Graduate Affairs; Harvey D. Spangler Faculty Scholar
Contact: jrluedt1@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
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...
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
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, Biomechanics of muscle and tendon disorders, Primary and secondary prevention of repetitive motion injuries, Ergonomic design of manually operated products, hand tools ...
Other affiliations: Wisconsin Institute for Discovery
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
Raj Veeramani
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
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...
Xin Wang
Assistant Professor
Contact: xin.wang@wisc.edu, (608) 890-3913
Also: Civil and Environmental Engineering
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Other affiliations: Grainger Institute for Engineering
Nicole Werner
Harvey D. Spangler Assistant Professor
Contact: nwerner3@wisc.edu, (608) 890-2578
Research interests: Human Factors and Ergonomics (HFE) for health care systems and patient safety, Care transitions across health care systems, Consumer health informatics, Health information technology, Health care delivery at ho...
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Douglas A. Wiegmann
Associate Professor
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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Gabriel Zayas-Cabán
Jane R. and Jack G. Mandula Assistant Professor
Contact: zayascaban@wisc.edu, (608) 999-0246
Research interests: Markov decision processes, queueing, scheduling, applied causal inference, healthcare delivery, emergency medicine, care transitions
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Other affiliations: School of Medicine and Public Health
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
Lecturers
Terry Mann
Senior Lecturer
Contact: tmmann@wisc.edu, (715) 574-5679
Also: Engineering Professional Development
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Amanda Smith
Associate Chair for Undergraduate Affairs
Contact: amanda.smith@wisc.edu, (608) 890-3423
Emeritus Professors
Vicki Bier
Professor Emeritus
Contact: bier@engr.wisc.edu
Also: 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
John G. Bollinger
John Bascom Professor Emeritus
Contact: jgbollinger@sbcglobal.net, (608) 233-5404
Also: Mechanical Engineering
Research interests: Dynamic behavior of machine tool drive systems
Position control for automatic welding
Noise generation/noise control in product design
Machine tool structure control dynamics
Dynamic loads i...
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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
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
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
Rajan Suri
Professor Emeritus
Contact: suri@engr.wisc.edu, (608) 262-0921
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
Arne Thesen
Professor Emeritus
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
Barbara Bowers
Associate Dean
Contact: bjbowers@wisc.edu, (608) 263-5189
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Other affiliations: School of Nursing
Elizabeth S. Burnside
Professor
Contact: eburnside@uwhealth.org, (608) 265-2021
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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
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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Caprice Greenberg
Professor
Contact: greenberg@surgery.wisc.edu, 6082637309OR6082636396
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Other affiliations: Surgery
Eneida Mendonca
Associate Professor
Contact: emendonca@wisc.edu, (608) 263-6797
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Other affiliations: School of Medicine and Public Health
Beth Meyerand
Professor
Contact: memeyerand@wisc.edu, (608) 263-1685
Research interests: The development of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) based acquisition and post-processing methods to visualize diffusion and activation in the human brain.
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Also: Radiology
Bilge Mutlu
Assistant Professor
Contact: bmutlu@wisc.edu, (608) 262-6635
Also: Computer Sciences
Research interests: Human-computer interaction (HCI), specifically human-robot interaction, assistive, educational, and therapeutic use of humanlike robots and agents, modeling of human social behavior, activity recognition, and m...
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Robert Nowak
Keith and Jane Morgan Nosbusch Professorship in Electrical and Computer Engineering
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 A. 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: Opportunities in Engineering, Transportation Information Center, Wisconsin Highway Research Program, Wisconsin Traffic Operations and Safety Laboratory, Wisconsin Transportation Center
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
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
Thomas Rutherford
Professor
Contact: rutherford@aae.wisc.edu
Research interests: Energy markets, climate policy, international trade, technical change and computational economics
Mary Elizabeth Sesto
Assistant Professor
Contact: msesto@wisc.edu, (608) 263-5697
Also: Orthopedics and Rehabilitation
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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
Linsey Steege
Assistant Professor
Contact: lsteege@wisc.edu, (608) 263-5191
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Other affiliations: School of Nursing
Bruce R. Thomadsen
Professor
Contact: brthomad@wisc.edu, (608) 263-4183
Also: Engineering Physics
Research interests: Brachytherapy Physics, Radiation Dosimetry, Patient Safety
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Other affiliations: Medical Physics, Human Oncology, Center for Human Performance and Risk Analysis
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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