Jeff Linderoth is the Harvey D. Spangler Professor in the department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He holds a courtesy appointment in the Computer Sciences department and as a Discovery Fellow at the Wisconsin Institutes of Discovery. His research interests include optimization, integer programming, mixed integer nonlinear programming and stochastic optimization. His awards include an Early Career Award from the Department of Energy, the SIAM Activity Group on Optimization Prize, and the INFORMS Computing Society Prize. In 2016, Jeff was elected to membership as an INFORMS Fellow. He  acted as Associate Editor for highly important OR journals such as Operations Research, INFORMS Journal on Computing and Computational Optimization and Applications. He also acted as consultant for more than 10 companies and supervised 11 PhD dissertations.