Karima Nigmatulina is an Acting Director of Research and Project Institute of General Planning for the City of Moscow. Before, while at MIT, in addition to research, she taught several undergraduate and graduate courses at the Sloan School of Management, for which she was nominated for teaching awards. As a consultant at Analytics Operations Engineering, Dr. Nigmatulina worked on developing warehouse picking and stocking optimization schemes. Algorithms that she developed provided substantial decreases in labor costs for the client. While at Alfa Capital in Russia, Dr. Nigmatulina formulated and applied a procedure for researching and appraising Russian equities. She has also spent time managing correspondence in the Committee of International Relations in the State Duma of the Russian Federation.