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From Data to Decision Making in Health and Humanitarian Logistics: Insights and Challenges

1163 Mechanical Engineering 1513 Engineering Dr., Madison, WI, United States

Decision making to satisfy the basic human needs of health, food, and education is complex. We present an overview of two illustrative studies using data to inform decision making in health care delivery associated with sepsis and hunger relief. In the first study, we integrate electronic health record (EHR) data with clinical expertise to develop...

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Using Smartwatches to Improve Personal and Population Health

1163 Mechanical Engineering 1513 Engineering Dr., Madison, WI, United States

Wearable technology such as smartwatches has the potential to transform the management and control of infectious diseases. Smartwatches provide continuous data about an individual’s health (e.g., heart rate, sleep patterns,...

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ISyE – Cyber-Manufacturing: Delivering Manufacturing Services Over Web 3.0

1163 Mechanical Engineering 1513 Engineering Dr., Madison, WI, United States

Cybermanufacturing enables the shared use of networked manufacturing infrastructure to deliver manufacturing resources on-demand while maximizing capacity utilization, reducing consumption of natural and material resources, and reducing costs to product design and manufacturing. This talk will highlight three areas where our group has contributed to the understanding of Cybermanufacturing systems – 1) With the explosive...

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High-resolution Tactile Sensing for Robotic Manipulation 

1163 Mechanical Engineering 1513 Engineering Dr., Madison, WI, United States

In the quest to enable robots to perform everyday tasks in unstructured environments, tactile sensing plays a crucial role. Tasks that benefit from refined tactile perception include industrial manufacturing, domestic chores, and the care of elderly individuals. However, high fidelity tactile sensing remains a challenge within the community. Our lab has made strides in the...

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Gaze Sharing, a Double-Edged Sword: Examining the Effect of Real-Time Gaze Sharing Visualizations on Team Performance and Situation Awareness

1163 Mechanical Engineering 1513 Engineering Dr., Madison, WI, United States

Eye tracking research has shown that teammates in complex systems often exhibit overlapping eye gaze during critical moments of operation. This finding has driven the development of a new emerging technology called gaze sharing, which involves real-time visualization of team members’ eye movements on their respective displays. Initial evaluations of gaze sharing have primarily focused...

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Multiphysics-informed Machine Learning for 3DArchitected Anode Based Battery Design

1163 Mechanical Engineering 1513 Engineering Dr., Madison, WI, United States

Li-ion batteries (LIBs) are widely used to power today’s portable electronics, electric vehicles (EVs), plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs), and in utility scale battery energy storage systems (BESSs). High performance...

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Toward adaptive interventions: Neurophysiological sensor-based modeling for human performance

1163 Mechanical Engineering 1513 Engineering Dr., Madison, WI, United States

Human-centricity is one of the core values of Industry 5.0, motivated by several challenges encountered with Industry 4.0, including social and workforce heterogeneity. An increasing number of inexperienced users interacting with sophisticated technologies underscores the need for continuous and personalized interventions taking into account contextual factors and individual differences. Recent advances in wearable and physiological...

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Nurturing Interdisciplinary Industrial Engineering in Research and Education

1163 Mechanical Engineering 1513 Engineering Dr., Madison, WI, United States

University environments are becoming more dynamic and diverse than ever before. The landscape in industrial engineering continues to change rapidly and students and faculty in the discipline are called upon to address a broader range of problems that impact our everyday lives. As a pivotal approach to embracing the challenges and the opportunities posed for...

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Exact Label Recovery in Euclidean Random Graphs

1163 Mechanical Engineering 1513 Engineering Dr., Madison, WI, United States

In this paper, we propose a family of label recovery problems on weighted Euclidean random graphs. The vertices of a graph are embedded in R^d according to a Poisson point...

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