Constantinos Caramanis received the A.B. degree in Mathematics from Harvard University, and the MS and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has been on the faculty at UT Austin since 2006, where he is now the Chandra Family Endowed Distinguished Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering. He is the recipient of a National Science Foundation CAREER award and is an IEEE Fellow for contributions to robust statistics and high dimensional optimization. He is on the Scientific Board for the Machine Learning Laboratory at UT Austin. His research focuses on optimization, control, statistical machine learning and algorithms.