Andrea Lodi

Andrea is the Canada Excellence Research Chair in “Data Science for Real-time Decision Making” at Polytechnique Montréal and an Andrew H. and Ann R. Tisch professor at the Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute at Cornell Tech and the Technion. He is the co-principal investigator of “Data Serving Canadians: Deep Learning and Optimization for the Knowledge Revolution”. The project was recently funded by the Canadian Federal Government under the Apogee Programme, and by IVADO, the Institute for Data Valorization, where Andrea serves as scientific co-director in Montreal. Andrea's main research interests are mixed-integer linear and nonlinear programming and data science. He serves as editor for several prestigious journals in the field and his work has received extensive recognition, including IBM and Google Faculty awards. He served as the network coordinator and principal investigator of two large EU projects/networks and has been a consultant of the IBM CPLEX research and development team since 2006. Andrea is the author of more than 100 publications appearing in leading journals in the fields of mathematical optimization and data science.