Biography

Bartolomeo Stellato is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Operations Research and Financial Engineering at Princeton University. Previously, he was a Postdoctoral Associate at the MIT Sloan School of Management and Operations Research Center. He holds a DPhil (PhD) in Engineering Science from the University of Oxford, a MSc in Robotics, Systems and Control from ETH Zürich, and a BSc in Automation Engineering from Politecnico di Milano. He developed OSQP, a widely used solver in mathematical optimization. His awards include the Beale — Orchard-Hays Prize, the ONR Young Investigator Award, the NSF CAREER Award, the Princeton SEAS Howard B. Wentz Jr. Faculty Award, the Franco Strazzabosco Young Investigator Award from ISSNAF, the Princeton SEAS Innovation Award in Data Science, the Best Paper Award in Mathematical Programming Computation, and the First Place Prize Paper Award in IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics. His research focuses on data-driven computational tools for mathematical optimization, machine learning, and optimal control.

Bartolomeo was born and raised in Cremona, Italy, and he is married to Martina Dal Bello. He is passionate about music (especially piano playing), history, and photography.