[Coin-announce] 2019 COIN-OR board of directors election ballots

[Giacomo Nannicini]

Please fill out the ballot below and return it to the email address
"election at coin-or.org". Ballots must be received by Monday, October 21,
2019, 1:30 PDT. If you do not vote via email, you have the option of
voting in person
at the COIN-OR general meeting that will take place at INFORMS
on Monday October 21, see the corresponding email.
You may only vote once, i.e., either electronically, or in person.

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COIN-OR Ballot

In each category below, you may vote for as many candidates as you like.
The candidates receiving the most votes will be elected. Candidate bios
appear at the end of this message. The candidates are listed in
alphabetical order.
All candidates are recommended by the current Directors.


Strategic Leadership Board
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At least two (2) to be elected.  Type an X in the brackets '[ ]' to vote for
a candidate, or type in a name for a write-in vote. You may vote for as
many candidates as you like.

[  ]  Andrew Mason

[  ]  Matthew Saltzman

[  ]  Write-in: _______________________

[  ]  Write-in: _______________________



Technical Leadership Council
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One (1) to be elected.  Type an X in the brackets '[ ]' to vote for a
candidate, or type in a name for a write-in vote. You may vote for as
many candidates as you like.

[  ]  Ted Ralphs

[  ]  Write-in: _________________

[  ]  Write-in: _________________

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Candidate Bios
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Andrew Mason
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Andrew Mason is an Associate Professor in the Dept of Engineering
Science at the University of Auckland and has served various roles,
including president, for the Operations Research Society of New
Zealand. He created and maintains the open source Excel add-in
OpenSolver which was awarded the COIN-OR Cup in 2011. OpenSolver,
which uses the CBC solver, has now been downloaded over 400,000 times
and has an active community of OR practitioners. His efforts to make
optimisation and COIN-OR software more accessible include developing
SolverStudio which allows models written using PuLP, Pyomo, Julia and
other formal modelling languages to be used within Excel. He is a
strong believer in the contribution that COIN-OR can continue to make.


Matthew Saltzman
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Matthew Saltzman is Associate Professor of Mathematical Sciences at
Clemson University.  His research interests are in computational
optimization -- particularly discrete optimization — and
high-performance computing. He has been involved in COIN-OR since its
inception in 2000 and is the founding president of the Foundation. He
is the project manager of the OSI (Open Solver Interface) and
QAPsolver projects, co-designer of CHiPPS, and a member of the
development teams for CLP and CBC.  He is an active INFORMS member,
past Chair of the INFORMS Computing Society, former editor-in-chief of
INFORMS Online, and former INFORMS VP for Information Technology.


Ted Ralphs
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Ted Ralphs received his Ph.D. in Operations Research from Cornell
University in 1995. He is currently a professor in the Department of
Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISE) at Lehigh University, where
he is director of the Laboratory for Computational Optimization
Research at Lehigh (COR at L). He is a co-founder of the COIN-OR
Foundation, a non-profit foundation promoting the development of open
source software for operations research,  as well as project manager
of a number of projects hosted in the COIN-OR open source software
repository. His research interests include development of methodology
for solving discrete optimization problems, including those with
multiple levels or multiple objectives; development of parallel search
algorithms; development of open source software; and applications of
discrete optimization.