Current healthcare guidelines focus on management of one disease and ignore some patients’ underlying, chronic conditions. New research in the journal Management Science finds that if personalized disease screening recommendations…
As a kid, Justin Boutilier would sometimes get roped into helping his dad, a paramedic and firefighter, perform automated external defibrillator demonstrations in and around his hometown of Niagara Falls,…
As a first-year industrial engineering student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Tess Vasilakos got an early lesson in the value of having an older student as a mentor. Not only…
Less than a month away from the conclusion of their senior design project, University of Wisconsin-Madison industrial engineering students Josie Beres, Conner Boldt, Jasmine Brewer and Will Gallagher uncovered a…
Jeff Linderoth and Jim Luedtke, professors of industrial and systems engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, have earned a best paper award from the journal Mathematical Programming Computation for their…
In a manufacturing plant, a nuclear reactor, a traffic network and a host of other complex systems, millions of sensors are constantly collecting torrents of data. But that data, in…
For many kids, the holidays are indeed the most wonderful time of the year—especially when it comes to tearing through wrapping paper to reveal toys they’ve had their hearts set…
If there’s one thing Professor Jingshan Li knows, it’s the importance of collaboration. Li, an expert in the field of operations research and faculty member in the Department of Industrial…
Dana Tabaza has her eyes on a possible consulting career once she graduates from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in a few years. The sophomore is double majoring in industrial engineering…
Rachel Rutkowski, a PhD student in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has landed two honors in recognition of her work in human factors…