Jose L. Walteros is an assistant professor in industrial and systems engineering at the University at Buffalo. He holds a PhD in industrial and systems engineering from the University of Florida. Walteros has extensive experience in developing exact and approximate solutions for solving challenging problems in a wide variety of areas, including attacker-defender games, logistics, transportation and routing, shared-mobility systems management, homeland security, survivable network design, data association, and social networks analysis, with 25+ research publications in these fields. His research has been funded by organizations such as the National Science Foundation, the Office of Naval Research, the Air Force Research Laboratory, and the Department of Transportation, among others. Previously, he served as the president of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) Junior Faculty Interest Group and the vice chair for Network Optimization in the INFORMS Optimization Society. His papers have appeared in the journals Operations Research, INFORMS Journal on Computing, Networks, Mathematical Programming, Mathematical Programming Computation, Transportation Science, the European Journal of Operational Research, and others.