Salar Fattahi is an Assistant Professor of Industrial and Operations Engineering at the University of Michigan. He received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 2020. His research focuses on optimization and machine learning and has been recognized with multiple nominations and awards, including the INFORMS Junior Faculty Interest Group Best Paper Award, the INFORMS Data Mining Best Paper Award, and the INFORMS Computing Society Best Student Paper Award. He is the recipient of a National Science Foundation CAREER Award and the Deans’ MLK Spirit Award. He serves as Vice Chair for Machine Learning in the INFORMS Optimization Society, as an Associate Editor for the INFORMS Journal on Data Science, and as an Area Chair for several premier conferences, including NeurIPS, ICML, and ICLR.