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Join us Friday, July 28, for a discussion about how artificial intelligence is changing the American business landscape with Laura Albert, UW–Madison College of Engineering professor and chair of Industrial & Systems Engineering.
This is the 6th installment in our webinar series about AI. You can learn more about the series, catch up on past seminars, and see what we have planned next on our “Exploring Artificial Intelligence @ UW–Madison” page.
AI in Action: Intelligent Systems and Business Operations
- Date: Fri, Jul 28
- Time: 9:15am to 10am Central Time
- Location: Zoom
- Cost: Free
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About the speaker
Laura Albert
Laura Albert, Ph.D., is a professor and the David Gustafson Department Chair of Industrial & Systems Engineering at the UW–Madison College of Engineering. Her research interests are operations research and analytics with application to homeland security, emergency response and public sector problems. She also maintains the blog Punk Rock Operations Research and is the director of the Badger Bracketology sports analytics team. Since arriving at UW–Madison 10 years ago, Albert has established herself as a prolific researcher, applying operations research methods to an array of public sector challenges, including homeland security, emergency medical services and critical infrastructure protection like information technology and election systems. “We have such a potential to be leaders in data science, engineering analytics and artificial intelligence. There are opportunities there that industrial engineers can uniquely tackle, and we can build upon this great ecosystem that we have here at UW–Madison,” says Albert, pointing to UW’s Data Science Institute and School of Computer, Data & Information Sciences, as well as the rapid growth of the computer science and data science majors on campus.
About the series
The “Exploring Artificial Intelligence @ UW–Madison” webinar series will run from June to September 2023, featuring webinars exploring a wide range of perspectives and topics relating to the rapidly advancing field of generative AI.
Sponsored by the university’s Division of Information Technology and Data Science Institute, the series aims to provide a platform for experts and visionaries in the field of AI to share their insights, research and experiences in the classroom, research lab and wider academic community.
By delving into topics such as AI ethics, cutting-edge machine learning algorithms, automation and human-machine collaboration, we hope to foster a deeper understanding of AI’s transformative potential and its implications for higher education.