Gesualdo Scutari is the Pedro and Barbara Granadillo Professor in the Edwardson School of Industrial Engineering and the Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA. His research interests focus on continuous optimization (particularly distributed and stochastic methods), equilibrium programming, and their applications in signal processing and statistical learning. Among other honors, he received the 2013 NSF CAREER Award, the 2015 IEEE Signal Processing Society Young Author Best Paper Award, and the 2020 IEEE Signal Processing Society Best Paper Award. He served as an IEEE Signal Processing Society Distinguished Lecturer (2023–2024) and has been on the editorial boards of several IEEE journals. He is currently an Associate Editor of the SIAM Journal on Optimization. He is a Fellow of the IEEE.