Join us for the 3rd Annual ISE Student Conference on Friday, April 24, 2026!
This year’s conference theme, Data-Driven Intelligent Systems: From Modeling to Impact, highlights how data analytics, predictive modeling, optimization, and machine learning translate complex data and analytical models into practical, high-impact solutions. The theme emphasizes the full pipeline from theoretical modeling to real-world implementation across manufacturing, healthcare, operations management, finance, and other interconnected domains. By focusing on the application of data-driven decision support, the conference aims to showcase research that addresses pressing real-world challenges and demonstrates measurable impact.
The theme also aligns closely with the ISE department’s key impact areas, including digital manufacturing and automation, health technology, social and human systems engineering, supply networks, finance and risk, as well as sustainability and resilience. Together, these areas reflect the interdisciplinary nature of industrial and systems engineering and underscore the role of intelligent systems in improving efficiency, safety, equity, and decision-making in complex socio-technical systems.
The conference offers ISE graduate students the opportunity to share their research through oral presentations or poster sessions in a supportive and collaborative academic environment. Submissions are welcome from all concentrations within the ISE department—Data Analytics, Decision and Control Systems, Design and Manufacturing, Financial Engineering, Operations Research, Healthcare Technology, and Human Factors—as well as related interdisciplinary research. This event provides a valuable platform for students to present thesis research, works in progress, or published studies, receive feedback from peers and faculty, and engage in meaningful discussions across research areas.
In addition to student presentations, the conference will feature keynote speakers, poster sessions, and networking opportunities designed to foster collaboration and professional development. Participants will have the chance to connect with fellow ISE students, explore cutting-edge research across the department, and share their work with a diverse audience of students and faculty. Whether you are presenting advanced research or early-stage ideas, this conference offers an inclusive and engaging space to exchange ideas and highlight the impact of ISE research.
We are honored to have our keynote speakers:
Professor Nagi Gebraeel (the Georgia Power Early Career Professor and Professor in the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Georgia Tech.)
Professor Navid Azizan (Alfred H. (1929) and Jean M. Hayes Career Development Assistant Professor Massachusetts Institute of Technology).
Student Conference Committee:
Emre Eraslan (emree2@illinois.edu)
Duo Lin (duolin2@illinois.edu)
Harris Nisar (nisar2@illinois.edu)