He was a visiting assistant professor in the Dept. of Mathematics at University of California, Davis, from 2010-2013. He obtained his Ph.D. in 2010 from Carnegie Mellon University with a thesis on mixed-integer optimization. He received an M.S. in Computer Science from Stony Brook University in 2006, and a bachelor’s in Computer Science from Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi in 2004. Amitabh Basu is the recipient of the NSF CAREER award in 2015. He was one of the three finalists for the A.W. Tucker Prize 2012 awarded by the Mathematical Optimization Society. Basu serves as an Associate Editor for the journal Mathematics of Operations Research. He also currently serves as Vice Chair for the Integer and Discrete Optimization cluster within the INFORMS Optimization Society. http://www.ams.jhu.edu/~abasu9/