Ruth Misener is Professor of Computational Optimisation at Imperial College London where she holds a BASF / Royal Academy of Engineering (RAEng) Research Chair in Data-Driven Optimisation. In 2017, Ruth received the MacFarlane Medal as overall winner of the RAEng Young Engineer of the Year competition. She received the 2023 Roger Needham Award from the British Computing Society for her research contributions. Her best paper awards are from the: Journal of Global Optimization (2013), International Conference on Autonomous Agents & Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS 2020, Best Innovative Demo), Conference on the Integration of Constraint Programming, Artificial Intelligence, & Operations Research (CPAIOR 2021), Optimization & Engineering (2021), and Computers & Chemical Engineering (2023). Ruth has given named lectures at Georgia Institute of Technology (2018 Mellichamp Lecture), Princeton University (2023 Saville Lecture), and Purdue University (2024 Mellichamp Lecture). She leads a team of research engineers in developing the Optimization & Machine Learning Toolkit (OMLT), which won the 2022 COIN-OR Cup as the best contribution to open-source operations research software development. Ruth is also an Amazon Scholar.