Dr. Sanjeeb Dash is a member of the Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science department of IBM Research and leads the Foundations of Optimization and Probability group located at IBM's T. J. Watson Research Center. He works on both theoretical and practical aspects of Discrete Optimization. The focus of his research is Integer Programming and Linear Programming including applications of these areas to problems in AI and Statistics. He has co-authored the QSopt and QSopt_ex linear programming solvers and is an Area Editor of the Mathematical Programming Computation journal.