The Texas - Wisconsin - California Control Consortium (TWCCC) carries out joint industrial-academic research in the areas of systems modeling, monitoring, control, optimization, and data science. 

The TWCCC was established in 1993 and is led by researchers from the following institutions: 

University of Texas at Austin: Michael Baldea, Illias Mitrai 

University of Wisconsin at Madison:  Victor M Zavala, Styliana Avraamidou, Stephen J Wright

University of California at Santa Barbara: James B Rawlings

University of Southern California: Jay H Lee

The campuses of UT-Austin, UW-Madison, USC, and UCSB are recognized internationally for research programs in systems modeling, monitoring, control, optimization, and data science. In addition, the Departments of Chemical Engineering at these institutions are recognized as leaders across a broad spectrum of chemical engineering research and educational areas. All of these departments attract highly-qualified graduate students.