Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology. His research interests are in the area of non convex optimization, and in particular mixed integer linear and nonlinear programming. Dr. Dey's research is partly motivated by applications of non convex and discrete optimization arising in areas such as economics, computer vision, logistics and petroleum industry. Dr. Dey holds a Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from Purdue University. Prior to joining Georgia Tech, he worked as a post-doctoral fellow at the Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE) of the Catholic University of Louvain in Belgium.