<p>Haroldo Gambini Santos is a Senior Applied Scientist at Amazon.com. For 10+ years he was a Professor at the Computer Science department of Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto. In 2018-2019 he was a Senior Researcher at the CS department of KU Leuven, Belgium. His research focuses on algorithms and models for combinatorial optimization problems. In 2019 he won the COIN-OR Cup award for his contributions to the CBC mixed-integer linear optimization software. In 2012 his team won the Second International Timetabling Competition. From 2012 to 2020, he was a member of the COIN-OR Foundation Technical Leadership Council. He authored several papers on prestigious operations research journals such as Computers &amp; Operations Research, European Journal of Operational Research, Annals of Operations Research, Journal of Scheduling among others. Haroldo is the co-creator of Python-MIP.</p>

Subject to: Francesca Maggioni

"Subject to" offers a series of informal conversations with relevant figures in the fields of Operations Research, Combinatorial Optimization and Logistics, and they are hosted by Anand Subramanian, an Associate Professor at Universidade Federal da Paraíba, Brazil. 

About the host:
Anand was born and raised in João Pessoa, Brazil. His parents are Indian immigrants who moved to Brazil in the early 1970s. He is an author of more 50 articles published in highly-ranked international journals, has more than 4300 citations on Google Scholar, and a h-index of 33.