Sebastian Souyris is an Assistant Professor of Supply Chain and Analytics, holding the Dean R. Wellington ‘83 Professorship in Management at the Lally School of Management, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Professor Souyris earned his Ph.D. in information, risk, and operations management from The University of Texas at Austin in 2019. He joined Lally in 2022 from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, where he was a visiting assistant professor at the Gies College of Business. In addition, he obtained an M.Phil. in operations management from New York University and a bachelor’s (industrial engineering) and master’s (operations management) degree from the University of Chile.Sebastian’s research addresses challenges and the means of achieving environmental and human sustainability, combining data-driven optimization, machine learning, and econometrics. He has developed impactful analytic solutions for sustainability, healthcare, logistics, media, and sports. His work has been published in Operations Research, Production and Operations Management, the European Journal of Operations Research, and the INFORMS Journal on Applied Analytics, among other outlets. In addition, he is an INFORMS Franz Edelman Laureate, a finalist of the EURO Excellence in Practice Award and the INFORMS Innovative Applications in Analytics Award, and a prizewinner of the INFORMS Revenue Management and Pricing Practice Award.