Oleg Prokopyev is a Professor in the Department of Industrial Engineering at the University of Pittsburgh. He has published over 80 journal papers. One of the papers co-authored by Dr. Prokopyev was awarded the William Pierskalla Best Paper Award by the Health Applications Society of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), while another was the winner of  Best Publication Award in Environment and Sustainability by the INFORMS Section on Energy, Natural Resources, and the Environment. Dr. Prokopyev’s research has been funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation, U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR), U.S. Office of Naval Research, U.S. Defense Threat Reduction Agency and U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. Dr. Prokopyev was also the recipient of the AFOSR Young Investigator Research Program (YIP) Award. Dr. Prokopyev serves as a Co-Editor-in-Chief of Optimization Letters and an editorial board member of several other journals. Dr. Prokopyev was an organizing committee member of INFORMS 2006 and 2018 Annual Meetings, as well as the 22nd International Symposium on Mathematical Programming (ISMP) in 2015.