June 3, 2025 Four ISyE faculty earn IISE honors Written By: Tom Ziemer Departments: Industrial & Systems Engineering Categories: Awards|Faculty Four faculty members from the University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering brought home individual awards from the annual conference of the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers in Atlanta. Oghuzan Alagoz, the Procter & Gamble Bascom Professor, earned the David F. Baker Distinguished Research Award for outstanding research over the course of his career. Professor Jim Luedtke received the Teaching Excellence Award from the IISE Operations Research Division. Robert Radwin, the Duane H. and Dorothy M. Bluemke Professor, was named an IISE Fellow, the highest class of membership in the organization. Shiyu Zhou, Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor and David H. Gustafson Department Chair, received the Medallion Award for his contributions to the industrial engineering profession. In addition, Assistant Professor Michael Biehler was part of a group led by Georgia Tech Professor Jianjun Shi whose work earned a best paper award from the 2024 IISE Transactions focus issue on data science, quality and reliability. Biehler, who joined UW-Madison in January 2025 after earning his PhD from Georgia Tech, was first author on the paper.