[Coin-voting-members] 2011 Election Ballot, COIN-OR Directors

[Pietro Belotti]

> Strategic Leadership Board
>
> One (1) to be elected.  Type an X in the brackets '[ ]' to vote for a 
> candidate. You may vote for as many candidates as you like.
>
> [X ]  William Hart
>
> [  ]  Other: __________________________
>
>
> Technical Leadership Council
>
> Three (3) to be elected.  Type an X in the brackets '[ ]' to vote for a 
> candidate. You may vote for as many candidates as you like.
>
> [ X ]  Kipp Martin
>
> [  ]  John Siirola
>
> [ X ]  Stefan Vigerske
>
> [  ]  Other: ___________________________
>
>
> ------------------
> Candidate bios
> ------------------
>
> William Hart
>
> Bio: William Hart is a manager of the Data Analysis and Informatics
>     Department at Sandia National Laboratories. His research interests
>     focus on optimization techniques, including: parallel branch-
>     and-bound, heuristic global optimization, derivative-free local
>     search, and optimization software frameworks. He has applied
>     optimization techniques to many real-world applications, including
>     computational biology, engineering design, logistics planning, and
>     sensor placement in municipal water systems.
>
> COIN-OR: Optimization software is a key element of my professional
>     work. I am a key contributor to a variety of widely-used software
>     development efforts (DAKOTA, Acro, AutoDock, Coopr), and I have
>     been organizing efforts at Sandia to promote the integration of
>     open-source software projects into Sandia's business areas.  A
>     particular focus has been COIN-OR, which we have used with the
>     PICO IP solver for several years. More recently, I have been
>     looking to more directly integrate Sandia into open-source
>     projects.  We have integrated Coopr into COIN-OR, and I have been
>     involved with the TLC to further cement these interactions.
>     Serving on the SLB is more in-line with the my current
>     responsibilities as a manager at Sandia, where I am more involved
>     with managing and promoting efforts like COIN-OR than direct
>     software development.  Additionally, my Sandia position is focused
>     on data analysis, which is a potential growth area for COIN-OR.
>
> ===================================
>
> Kipp Martin
>
> Kipp Martin is Professor of Operations Research and Computing Technology
> at the Booth School of Business, University of Chicago. His recent research 
> includes a project to create a set of standards for
> representing optimization instances, results, solver options, and
> communication between clients and solvers in a distributed environment
> using Web Services. This work has resulted in the COIN-OR Optimization
> Services (OS) project for which he is a project manager. He also helps
> with the COIN-OR Binary, the COIN-OR TestTools, COIN-OR CoinEasy, and
> COIN-OR ApplicationTemplates projects.  Other research interests
> include integer programming; in particular, developing formulationswith 
> strong linear relaxations and applying integer programming to capacity
> planning,  bundle pricing, vehicle routing, and database normalization.
> He received his Ph.D. in Management Science from the University of
> Cincinnati.
>
> ===================================
>
> John Siirola
>
> John Siirola is a Senior Member of Technical Staff at Sandia National
> Laboratories.  A Chemical Engineer turned Operations Researcher, his
> research interests include optimization modeling environments and
> optimization infrastructures, multi-objective optimization methods,
> adaptive hybrid optimization heuristics, and high performance computing.
> He is the project lead for the open-source Acro project (an umbrella
> project that includes the PICO MILP solver, PEBBL parallel branch and
> bound library, and COLIN optimization interface library) and co-lead of
> the Coopr COIN-OR project. Beyond optimization research, John has
> significant interest and passion around software engineering issues;
> including infrastructures and approaches for project management,
> software testing, continuous integration, and software deployment.
>
> ===================================
>
> Stefan Vigerske
>
> Stefan Vigerske is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Mathematics
> at Humboldt University Berlin, Germany. His research interests are in
> mixed-integer nonlinear programming and stochastic programming. He has
> been involved in COIN-OR since 2006 as Project Manager for the projects
> LaGO (Lagrangian Global Optimizer) and GAMSlinks (link open source
> solvers to GAMS). Recently, he has been working on the COIN-OR build
> system (BuildTools). He was first elected to the TLC in 2009.
>
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