Dr. Thiago Serra
Assistant Professor of Business Analytics
University of Iowa
Dr. Thiago Serra
Assistant Professor of Business Analytics
University of Iowa
Thiago Serra is an Assistant Professor of Business Analytics at the University of Iowa and a consultant for Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs. His scholarship focuses on the theory, practice, and integration of machine learning and mathematical optimization. Previously, he was an assistant professor at Bucknell University, a visiting research scientist at Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs, and an operations research analyst at Petrobras. He has a Ph.D. in operations research from Carnegie Mellon University, from which he received the Gerald L. Thompson Doctoral Dissertation Award in Management Science. He also has a master's degree in computer science from the University of Sao Paulo (USP) and a computer engineering degree from the University of Campinas (Unicamp). He has served the INFORMS Computing Society as vice chair (2022-2023) and chair (2024-2025). He currently serves as an associate editor for the journals International Transactions in Operational Research and INFORMS Journal on Data Science.
