Jean-François Côté is an associate professor in the Department of Operations and Decision Systems at Laval University in Quebec City. He obtained his Ph.D. in Computer Science at the University of Montreal in 2014. During his studies, he worked in the private sector for many companies to solve many different types of operation research problems. His research interests are vast and include combinatorial optimization, stochastic programming, cutting, packing, vehicle routing and scheduling problems. His research has been published in top-tier journals like Operations Research, INFORMS Journal on Computing, Transportation Science and European Journal of Operational Research.