Krunal Patel is a PhD Student at Polytechnique Montreal and CERC. He is working under the supervision of Prof. Andrea Lodi and Prof. Guy Desaulniers. He graduated from BITS Pilani Goa Campus in 2015 with B.E. (Hons.) Computer Science and M.Sc. (Hons.) Mathematics. After graduation, he worked at Google from 2015 to 2020 primarily with operations research team. His research interests include discrete optimization, column generation and machine Learning.