José Fernando Gonçalves (Ph.D., UC Berkeley) is a Principal Research Scientist at Amazon, with contributions in the fields of operations research, and applied mathematics. He is most known for his work with metaheuristics, in particular Biased Random-key Genetic Algorithms (BRKGA), as well as for his work on the job-shop scheduling.  His areas of expertise are Optimization, Heuristics and Metaheuristics, Scheduling, Cutting and Packing, Facility Layout, Inventory Management, and Operations Research Modeling. He has published over 50 papers on combinatorial optimization and edited a book on inventory management. He is on the editorial board of International Transactions in Operational Research. He was a Professor at the School of Engineering and the School of Economics of Porto University 1986-2016.