Bio: Gérard Cornuéjols is a professor at Carnegie Mellon University. He holds the IBM chair in Operations Research and is a University Professor. He received the von Neumann Theory Prize (2011) offered by INFORMS, the Dantzig prize (2009) offered jointly by the Math Optimization Society and SIAM, the SIAM Outstanding Paper Prize (2004), the Fulkerson Prize (2000) offered jointly by the American Math Society and the Math Optimization Society, and the Lanchester Prize offered by INFORMS twice (1977 and 2015). He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering. He was editor-in-chief of Mathematics of Operations Research from 1998 to 2003.