Ruslan Sadykov is a researcher in the Bordeaux center of Inria, French National Institute for Informatics and Automatics. He received his master degree in Operations Research in Kazan State University, Russia, and his Ph.D. degree in Applied Mathematics in 2006 at CORE, Université Catholique de Louvain in Belgium. He was a postdoctoral researcher in Ecole Polytechnique in Paris before joining the ReAlOpt team at Inria Bordeaux as a research fellow in 2008. He was a visiting researcher at Universidade Federal Fluminense, Niteroi, Brazil during one year in 2015-2016. His research interests are in integer programming based decomposition approaches for solving combinatorial optimization problems with applications in vehicle routing, scheduling, cutting and packing. He is an author of many papers published in prestigious journals such as INFORMS Journal on Computing, European Journal of Operational Research, Computers and Operations Research, Journal on Scheduling, Mathematical Programming, Transportation Science, and Operations Research.