Carmen Haseltine earned her bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Louisiana State University in 2009, her master’s degree in applied mathematics from the University of West Florida in 2018, and currently is a fifth-year PhD student in electrical engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. There, her research focuses on security analysis of critical infrastructure systems through stochastic modeling. Recently, she has explored election security, creating mathematical models to improve equity in the voting-by-mail (VBM) process. Her initial work, presented at EAAMO‘21, earned the best poster award, and her future research is poised to provide critical tools for security practitioners seeking to cost-effectively manage risks in infrastructure systems. Since 2022, Haseltine has been a diversity, equity, and inclusion ambassador for INFORMS, where she has developed materials and led a project to introduce students from traditionally underrepresented backgrounds to the field of operations research. The seven years she spent as an engineer in the power system industry led to her doctoral work and 2021 published paper on a new risk analysis technique addressing the dynamic factors impacting grid performance in regions afflicted by climate change. As a professor, it is her desire to create inclusive learning environments through group assignments and collaborative projects aimed at addressing equity.

Research Interests

Critical infrastructure analysis and operations research