Andrea Lodi is the Andrew H. and Ann R. Tisch Professor of operations research and information engineering at Cornell Tech, the Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute, and Cornell Engineering.
Before joining Cornell, Lodi was a Herman Goldstine Fellow at the IBM Mathematical Sciences Department of New York and a full professor of operations research at the Department of Electrical, Electronic, and Information Engineering at the University of Bologna. He was also the Canada Excellence Research Chair in “Data Science for Real-time Decision Making” at Polytechnique Montréal.
His main research interests are in mixed-integer linear and nonlinear programming and data science. His work has received several recognitions, including the IBM and Google faculty awards. Andrea is the recipient of the INFORMS Optimization Society 2021 Farkas Prize and was elected an INFORMS Fellow in 2023.
Andrea has been the principal investigator of scientific projects, often involving industrial partners, for Italy, the European Union, Canada, and the United States. In the period from 2006 to 2021, he was a consultant for the IBM CPLEX research and development team, developing CPLEX, one of the leading software programs for mixed-integer optimization. Andrea Lodi has co-founded IVADO Labs, a Montreal-based company that focuses on AI projects mainly in the supply chain domain.
