Jay Sethuraman is a Professor of Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research at Columbia University. He received a BE (Hons.) in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from the Birla Institute of Technology and Science in 1991, an MSc. (Engg.) in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Science in 1994, and a PhD in Operations Research from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1999. His research interests include data science, discrete optimization, game theory, mechanism design and scheduling theory. He is interested in designing effective resource allocation mechanisms. He has applied optimization tools and techniques to study matching and allocation problems in which fairness and incentives are important. A major focus of his current interests is the role of operations research methods in public decision-making problems.