Before Bjorn Borgen (BSME ’62) built a multibillion-dollar investment firm, before he settled out west in the Rocky Mountains, before he even set foot on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus, he was a teenager working…
Laura Albert, the David H. Gustafson Department Chair of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, will lead the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS)…
Years ago, when several of Laura Albert’s mentors in operations research tried to nudge her to consider a career in academic administration, her initial reaction was less than enthusiastic. “I…
Professors Laura Albert and James Luedtke will use a four-year, $1.2 million grant from the National Science Foundation to develop an optimization framework that can help organizations effectively and efficiently…
When Laura Albert presented a sampling of her operations research a few years back in her adopted home of Middleton, Wisconsin, she drew the attention of one particularly interested audience…
In an age of data breaches and malware attacks, cybersecurity is paramount to organizations that store troves of customer and employee information. But companies, government entities and other large institutions…
Laura Albert, an associate professor in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, recently chaired the INFORMS 2018 Government and Analytics Summit, a new conference aimed at sharing operations research…
The University of Wisconsin-Madison is leading a major multi-institution project to develop and test a critical fusion technology—research that will directly benefit commercial fusion power plant developers. A $19 million Fusion Innovative Research Engine (FIRE)…
For the UW-Madison College of Engineering, 2023 was a year full of extraordinary achievements and tremendous growth. We advanced scientific knowledge on many fronts, improved the quality of people’s lives…
For the UW-Madison College of Engineering, 2022 was a year full of extraordinary achievements and tremendous growth. We advanced scientific knowledge on many fronts, improved the quality of people’s lives…