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Customer inspects rings at jewelry store
June 25, 2025

For Wisconsin-based Jewelers Mutual, data science collaboration is extra insurance

Through a university collaboration that began some six years ago, a leading jewelry insurance provider is leveraging advanced data science and artificial intelligence tools to advance its business and benefit its customers. Jewelers Mutual Group…

Ashley Peper
June 23, 2025

Industrial engineer hopes optimization education will yield exponential dividends for future students

When Ashley Peper started to get serious about finding a career that would scratch her math itch, her teachers at Stevens Point Area Senior High floated the standard ideas: accountant or math teacher. “I don’t…

PhD student Fernando Acosta-Pérez stands in front of the emergency entrance at UW Hospital
May 30, 2025

Mathematical modeling helps hospitals efficiently assign patients to the right space

A hospital’s emergency department swells with patients, a chunk of whom will need to be admitted to the facility’s inpatient unit. But decision-makers in emergency care face a dilemma: When…

Professor Jim Luedtke works with students in Advanced Optimization Modeling
April 24, 2025

New advanced optimization course provides industry preparation

Industrial engineering students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who are interested in learning the basics of optimization—mathematical techniques that can solve problems such as choosing the quickest route from point…

Kaibo Liu
March 12, 2025

Touched by cancer, Liu trains artificial intelligence to uncover the genes behind disease

As an industrial data science researcher, Kaibo Liu has devoted much of his adult life to improving quality in manufacturing systems and monitoring the health of machines. That changed in…

Assistant Professor Yonatan Mintz and undergraduate student Fengxu Li
February 7, 2025

New country, abundant resources, aptitude for research help undergrad build confidence

A year ago, Fengxu Li says, the idea of talking to a stranger on Zoom about himself would have simply felt too nerve-wracking and intimidating. He had only arrived in…

January 8, 2025

Could neurostimulation help fatigued first responders?

Ranjana Mehta had just finished presenting her work on occupational fatigue at a conference when a first responder approached her with a somewhat startling request: Could the neuroergonomics researcher look…

Michael Biehler
December 4, 2024

Focus on new faculty: Michael Biehler combines 4D printing with machine learning

If Michael Biehler’s research is successful, he will help enable soft robotics that can self-assemble inside the human body, as well as dynamic, protective packaging for everything from food to…

Alberto Del Pia
November 8, 2024

For the love of the riddle: Industrial engineer’s foundational math makes way for optimal solutions

Midway through an explanation of his research into some of the murkier corners of the mathematical universe, Alberto Del Pia cuts himself off. “I understand this is complicated,” says the…

PhD student Liangkui Jiang works in the lab
October 9, 2024

With data science, new ink, Qin lab pushes toward in-space manufacturing

If Hantang Qin and his collaborators succeed in putting their 3D-printing technology on the International Space Station, they don’t want it to merely operate in zero gravity. They want it…