Luciana Buriol is a computer scientist with expertise in optimization. Since 2021 she serves as a principal research scientist at Amazon in Seattle, USA. Prior to this, Luciana was a professor for 15 years in the Computer Science Department at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Brazil. Luciana has a background in computer science and earned her Ph.D. in electrical engineering - optimization, from the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil, in 2003. Her academic journey included a 15-month visiting the Optimization Research Department of the Internet and Network Systems Research Center of AT&T Labs Research, USA (2001-2002) and a postdoctoral in the computer science department at the University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy (2004-2005).
Her main areas of expertise are algorithm engineering, problem-solving with metaheuristics, and MIP modeling. In algorithm engineering, her primary contributions focus on dynamic shortest path computation and efficient algorithms for analyzing properties of massive graphs. In problem-solving, she has extensive experience with network design and network operations solved with metaheuristics, hybridizing heuristics with MIP, and column generation.
Luciana has served as president of the Latin-Ibero-American Association of Operational Research 2012-2014, and vice-president of the International Federation of Operational Research Societies (IFORS) 2016-2018.