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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…