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…
A historic $75 million gift will fuel construction of a much-needed new engineering building at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. With their lead gift—the largest single gift in college history—brothers and…
As a silicon wafer winds its way through a semiconductor manufacturing plant—from deposition and lithography to etching and dicing—each stop at another machine loaded with sensors also generates information. And…
Soon after starting a master’s program in operations research at Georgia Tech, Dan Li remained restless. She wanted more—more challenging courses, more avenues to make a wider-reaching impact. And so…
Even as racial disparities in screenings for colorectal cancer have narrowed, the discrepancies in outcomes between Black and white Americans remain stubbornly wide. Black adults are 23% more likely to…