[Coin-voting-members] Ballot for election of SLB and TLC Directors

[Lou Hafer]

Please fill out the ballot below and return it to the email address 
"election at coin-or.org". Email ballots must be received by 12:00 midnight
Eastern Daylight Time (UTC-4), Friday, November 5th, 2010.

Note that members present at the Annual Meeting may vote in person.
The Annual Meeting will be held Monday, November 8th, 12:15, Austin Convention
Centre Room 19B, Level 4, during the INFORMS 2010 Annual Meeting in Austin, 
Texas.

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COIN-OR Ballot

In each category below, you may vote for as many candidates as you like.
Those receiving the most votes will be elected (subject to any applicable
rules on the composition of each board).  Candidate bios appear at the end
of this message.


Strategic Leadership Board

Four (4) to be elected.  Type an X in the brackets '[ ]' to vote for a
candidate. You may vote for as many candidates as you like.

[  ]  Randy Kiefer

[  ]  Alan King

[  ]  Paul Rubin

[  ]  Matt Saltzman

[  ]  Other: __________________________


Technical Leadership Council

Two (2) to be elected.  Type an X in the brackets '[ ]' to vote for a
candidate. You may vote for as many candidates as you like.

[  ]  Matthew Galati

[  ]  Ted Ralphs

[  ]  Other: ___________________________


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Candidate bios
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Matthew Galati:

Matthew Galati is a member of the Operations Research Department at SAS
Institute, which is part of the Advanced Analytics R&D Division. In 2004,
when he joined SAS, he focused on the development of a general MILP solver,
specializing in polyhedral theory. From 2006-2008, he served as the lead
architect and manager of the Optimization Interface Team which develops and
supports advanced uses of SAS/OR products by various user communities
including: customers, the analytical consulting division, SAS solutions
developers and internal SAS products. His current focus is in the development
of a new product for graph theory, network flows, social network analysis,
and combinatorial optimization which is currently being applied to the
banking industry, for fraud detection, and telecommunications, for analyzing
the effect of marketing campaigns on customer churn.

His interest in COIN-OR software goes back to the early days of COIN, working
with his PhD thesis advisor, Dr. Ted Ralphs, on SYMPHONY and BCP. During
those years, he became very familiar with the overall infrastructure of the
LP and MILP based solutions provided by COIN-OR. He made a number of small
contributions over the years both at a micro and macro level. His current
focus is on the continued development and support of his own project, DIP
(Decomposition in Integer Programming). If elected to the TLC, he hopes to
help continue the advancement of COIN as the premier portal for OR-related
open-source software.

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Randy Kiefer:

Randy Kiefer is the principal consultant at Kiefer Strategy Group, LLC and is
a consultant in academic publishing. His company focuses on business
development, pricing, representation in markets like India, and overall
business planning. Randy has traveled to China, India, Europe, the U.K., and
in the U.S. to meet with librarians, aggregators, content providers, and
authors to discuss online distribution/subscription issues. Randy was the
Director of Subscription, Membership, & Technical Services for the Institute
for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS). Randy had been
with INFORMS since January 1998, and had worked on their online publishing
efforts for the last nine years in addition to his other responsibilities.
Prior to working at INFORMS, Randy worked in the software development field
and as a consultant to a wide range of businesses.

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Alan King:

Alan King is a research staff member with the Mathematical Sciences
department at IBM's Thomas J Watson Research Center. His research interest
focusses on optimization technologies for decision-making under uncertainty.
He has contributed to a range of areas in Stochastic Programming, including:
sample approximation theory, parallel decomposition, options pricing duality,
high throughput task dispatch, high performance stream computing, and
algebraic modeling for stochastic programs.  Alan has been project manager
for the COIN-OR SMI project since 2000, and recently began a stochastic
program modeling collaboration with COIN-OR's FlopC++.  Working with Robin
Lougee, Alan helped organize the first Coin Cup award committee in 2002.
Alan is co-chairing the "John Forrest-fest | COIN-OR 10th Anniversary"
celebration at the Austin INFORMS annual meeting this fall.

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Ted Ralphs

Ted Ralphs is an Associate Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering at
Lehigh University in Bethlehem, PA, USA. He is a founder and co-director of
the Laboratory for Computational Optimization Research at Lehigh (COR at L) and
chairs Lehigh's High-performance Computing Steering Committee. He is a member
of the Strategic Leadership Board of the COIN-OR Foundation and chair of the
Technical Leadership Council. He serves on the editorial boards of five
journals and on the board of the INFORMS Computing Society. Dr.  Ralphs'
research focuses on theoretical and computational aspects of the solution and
analysis of mixed-integer linear programs.

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Paul Rubin

Paul A. Rubin is Professor of Management Science in the Eli Broad College of
Business and the Eli Broad Graduate School of Management at Michigan State
University.  A former member of TIMS, he is currently a member of INFORMS
(including the Computing Society) and the Decision Sciences Institute (where
he has worn a few hats, including being a former associate editor of Decision
Sciences Journal).  Paul's research interests lie primarily in application of
integer linear programming models and algorithms.  He began as a contented
FORTRAN programmer who, scarred by the recognition that the hash digest of
C++ is 666, now works primarily in Java while eying Python warily.  Paul is a
heavy user of open-source software (though not allergic to commercial
software), is himself the author of an open source project (with zero
downloads), and has been a supporter of COIN-OR for the past few years,
though not a contributor of code (see previous note about C++).

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Matthew Saltzman:

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 2000 and is the founding president of the
Foundation. He is the project manager of the OSI (Open Solver Interface)
project, co-designer of CHiPPS, and a member of the development teams for CLP
and CBC.  He is an active INFORMS member, former board member of the INFORMS
Computing Society, former editor-in-chief and current deputy editor of
INFORMS Online, and former VP for Information Technology.