Dr. Jose A. Ventura received his B.S. degree in Industrial Engineering from Polytechnic University of Catalunya (Spain), and his M.E. and Ph.D. degrees in Industrial and Systems Engineering from University of Florida. Since 1989 he has been at Penn State, where he is currently Distinguished Professor of Industrial Engineering. Dr. Ventura specializes in supply chain management, energy logistics, and infrastructure development and traffic equilibrium in transportation networks. He has published over 120 articles in professional journals such as Mathematical Programming, Management Science, Discrete Applied Mathematics, and IISE Transactions. He is an Editorial Board member of Energies, Section: Clean Energy, and AIMS Environmental Science. He received the IISE David F. Baker Distinguished Research Award in 2018 and a Research Recognition Award from Mexican Society of Operations Research in 2017. He is an IISE fellow and a former Chair of the IISE Council of Fellows.