Andrea Lodi is an Andrew H. and Ann R. Tisch Professor at the Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute at Cornell Tech and the Technion since 2021. He received his PhD in System Engineering from the University of Bologna in 2000 and he has been Herman Goldstine Fellow at the IBM Mathematical Sciences Department, full professor of Operations Research at the University of Bologna, and Canada Excellence Research Chair at Polytechnique Montréal. His main research interests are in Mixed-Integer Linear and Nonlinear Programming and Data Science. He has been recognized by IBM and Google faculty awards, the 2021 Farkas Prize by the INFORMS Optimization Society and as 2023 INFORMS Fellow. Andrea Lodi has been network coordinator and principal investigator of EU and Canadian projects and consultant of the IBM CPLEX research and development team (2006-2021).