Matteo Salani received the M.S. degree in computer science and the Ph.D. degree in computer science from University of Milan, Italy, in 2001 and 2006. He was an Assistant Professor (PostDoc) at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland. Currently, he is a Senior Researcher at the Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence (IDSIA), Lugano, Switzerland. His research interests deal with mathematical programming and optimization. In particular, he is interested in exact algorithms for combinatorial problems arising in transportation, logistics, telecommunication, energy management.