Santos-Borbolla, Cipriano Arturo

Education and training: ----- Ph.D. in Operations Research, at the University of Waterloo, Canada ----- M.S. in Operations Research, at the University of Waterloo, Canada ----- B.S. in Actuarial Sciences with a Major in Operations Research, at the University of Mexico (UNAM), Mexico Overview of professional experience: *What does the professor currently do? / Where does the professor teach or has taught? Dr. Santos is an experienced Mathematical Optimization Technologist with a demonstrated history of technical and organizational leadership. He was the Lead Scientist in mathematical optimization and machine learning at Gurobi Optimization and is a senior technical advisor to the Recruitology machine learning team. Professor Cipriano retired from Hewlett-Packard Laboratories as a Distinguished Technologist. Professor Cipriano has authored 19 refereed research publications on Supply Chain Management, Computing Infrastructure Management, Storage Management, and Workforce Planning. He was an associate editor of the Journal of Heuristics. Dr. Santos has more than 30 patent applications filed, with 18 patents awarded. Professor Cipriano has been the co-advisor of four graduated PhD students, and one graduated master's student. In 2004, he got the National award for outstanding achievement. Hispanic Engineer National Achievement Awards Conference: HENAAC; and in 2005, he was Nominated among the top 50 Hispanics in the U.S by HITEC -Hispanic IT Executive Council. *Current or previous experience? / Research focus? His recent research is focused on integrating optimization and machine learning. During his 27 years at HP, he participated in applied research projects developing mathematical optimization models and decision support tools for supply chain inventory management; customer relationship management; optimal resource allocation for large data centers; large-scale workforce planning tools for the services industry, including tactical resource planning, airline dispatcher workload distribution optimization, and operating room planning & scheduling.