Edoardo Amaldi received a "Diplôme" (M.Sc.) in Mathematical Engineering and a "Doctorat ès Sciences" (PhD) from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology at Lausanne (EPFL). In 1995 he joined the School of Operations Research and Information Engineering, Cornell University (USA), where he was, among others, an Adjunct Assistant Professor and a Research Associate. Since 1999 he is with the Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione, Politecnico di Milano, Italy, where he is a Full Professor of Operations Research.

Mathematical optimization: design and analysis of algorithms (exact methods, approximation algorithms and heuristics), discrete/combinatorial optimization.

Optimization models and methods for tackling complex decision-making problems arising in telecommunications, data mining, transportation, energy and computational finance.

Linear and nonlinear (mixed) integer optimization problems related to:
- Network optimization: design and management of wireless/wired telecommunication networks, network design under demand uncertainty, energy-aware network routing, bilevel and fair flows (traffic engineering), transportation problems (hazmat network design, last mile delivery).
- Data mining and machine learning: classification problems, clustering problems (w.r.t. hyperplanes), piecewise affine model fitting.
- Energy: optimization of multi-energy systems, derivative-free methods for energy systems.
- Computational finance: portfolio optimization.

2011 IBM Faculty Award for work on energy-aware optimization of wireline networks

2005 IBM Faculty Award for the work on the Maximum Feasible Subsystem problem (MaxFS)

Recently on the program committees of :

- International Network Optimization Conference (INOC 2019), Avignon, France, June 12-14, 2019; INOC 2017, Lisbon,Portugal, February 2017.
- 4th International Symposium on Combinatorial Optimization (ISCO), Vietri sul Mare, Italy, May 2016.
- INOC 2015, Warsaw, Poland, May 2015.
- 12th INFORMS Telecommunications Conference, Lisbon, Portugal, March 2014.
- INOC 2013, Tenerife, Spain, May 2013; INOC 2011, Hamburg, Germany, June 2011; INOC 2009, Pisa, Italy, April 2009; INOC 2007, Spa, Belgium, April 2007.
- 14th Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA 2006, Track B), Zuerich, Switzerland, September 2006.
- 4th International Workshop on Efficient and Experimental Algorithms (WEA) Santorini, Greece, 2005; 3rd WEA, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, May 2004.
- CT Workshop on Graphs and Combinatorial Optimization, Loveno di Menaggio, Italy, May-June 2004.

Since 2007 on the board of the European Network Optimization Group (ENOG), a working group within the Association of European Operational Research Societies (EURO).