Recording of INFORMS Insights webinar with Cristiana Lara.
Cristiana Lara is a Senior Research Scientist at Amazon in the Modeling and Optimization group. She has a Ph.D. in Process Systems Engineering from the Department of Chemical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. Her research focuses on modelling and solution algorithms for large-scale optimization problems, with particular interest in applications related to supply chain network design, product assortment, and inventory placement. She was selected by the National Academy of Engineering as one of the nation’s outstanding early-career engineers invited to attend the 2021 U.S. Frontiers of Engineering symposium, and received the inaugural INFORMS Early Career Practitioner Award in 2024.