Dr. Srinivas Bollapragada is a Principal Scientist at the General Electric’s Global Research Center (GEGRC) in Niskayuna, NY. His research interests are in business applications of optimization technologies. During the past 14 years at GE Research, he had led the development of numerous innovative, algorithms-based business systems that are currently in use at several GE businesses including NBC-Universal, GE Financial businesses, GE Energy, GE Rail Solutions and Aviation. Srinivas has published over 20 articles in journals such as Operations Research, Interfaces, European Journal of Operational Research, IIE Transactions etc. He has a Ph.D. in Operations Management from Carnegie Mellon University, and Master’s and Bachelor’s degrees in Electrical Engineering from IISc, Bangalore and IIT Madras respectively. He is the recipient of a number of awards including the Edelman (2001), Wagner (2009, 2004, 2002) and Nicholson (1996) finalist awards and several management awards at GE. He currently represents GEGRC at the INFORMS Roundtable and serves as the Chair of the Edelman award committee, the Area Editor of OR Practice, and as an Associate Editor of the journal, Interfaces.