AUTHOR=Meloni Davide TITLE=GUT and Flavor Models for Neutrino Masses and Mixing JOURNAL=Frontiers in Physics VOLUME=Volume 5 - 2017 YEAR=2017 URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/physics/articles/10.3389/fphy.2017.00043 DOI=10.3389/fphy.2017.00043 ISSN=2296-424X ABSTRACT=In the recent years experiments have established the existence of neutrino oscillations and most of the oscillation parameters have been measured with a good accuracy. However, in spite of many interesting ideas, no real illumination was sparked on the problem of flavor in the lepton sector. In this review, we discuss the state of the art of models for neutrino masses and mixings formulated in the context of flavor symmetries, with particular emphasis on the role played by grand unified gauge groups.