Giacomo Nannicini is an associate professor in the Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, with a courtesy appointment in the Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering in the USC School of Advanced Computing. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the CMU Tepper School of Business, a visiting scholar at the MIT Sloan School of Management, an assistant professor at the Singapore University of Technology and Design, and a research staff member at the IBM’s T.J. Watson Research Center. He received the 2021 Beale–Orchard-Hays Prize, the 2016 COIN-OR Cup, the 2015 Robert Faure Prize, and the 2012 Glover-Klingman Prize. His main research and teaching interest is optimization and its applications.