Pitu B. Mirchandani is a professor of Computing, Informatics, and Decision Systems Engineering at Arizona State University and holds the AVNET Chair for Supply Chain Networks. He is also a senior sustainability scientist within the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability at ASU and the director of Advanced Transportation and Logistics: Algorithms and Systems (ATLAS) Research Laboratory at ASU. His areas of expertise include optimization, decision-making under uncertainty, real-time control and logistics, application interests in urban service systems, transportation, and homeland security.