Radhika Kulkarni retired as VP, Advanced Analytics R&D at SAS Institute Inc. where she was responsible for the world’s leading Analytics Software products portfolio. She holds a Ph.D. in Operations Research from Cornell University. Under her leadership, OR gained recognition as a key contributor to scalability and performance of algorithms in statistics, machine learning, forecasting, data mining, econometrics, etc. She serves on many academic advisory boards. Dr. Kulkarni is a Fellow of the Institute of Operations Research and Management Science (INFORMS) and a WORMS Award winner and is currently the President-Elect of INFORMS. In 2022, she will be the President of INFORMS.