Kristin P. Bennett is a professor in the Mathematical Sciences and Computer Science Departments at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. As an active member of the machine learning, data mining, and operations research communities, she has served as present or past associate or guest editor for ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data, SIAM Journal on Optimization, Naval Research Logistics, Machine Learning Journal, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, and Journal on Machine Learning Research. She served as program chair of the Eleventh ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining. She has a Ph.D. in computer sciences from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She has been researching mathematical-programming approaches to machine learning and their applications to problems in chemistry, biology, epidemiology, engineering, and business since 1989. She founded and directs the "TB-Insight" project which uses molecular epidemiology to help track and control tuberculosis.