[Coin-voting-members] Election ballot, 2013 -- 2014 SLB and TLC directors

[Lou Hafer]

Folks,

     We're a bit late holding this election and can only offer the 
standard excuse: overcommitment. COIN keeps us all busy.

     Please fill out the ballot below and return it to the email address 
"election at coin-or.org". Ballots must be received by 2:00 pm Eastern 
Standard Time (UTC-5), Thursday, January 30th, 2014.

     The election results will be announced at the online 2013 Annual 
General Meeting (I did say we were a bit late :-) to be held Thursday 
January 30th, 2014 at 2:00 pm EST. Instructions for attending the AGM 
will be circulated shortly. Election results will also be announced by 
email.

     Thank you for taking the time to vote for COIN-OR Directors.

                                        Lou Hafer
                                        Secretary, COIN-OR Foundation

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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. Candidates recruited after October 
31, 2013 (the nominal deadline for nomination) are indicated on the 
ballot as write-in candidates. All candidates are recommended by the 
current Directors.

Please email your completed ballot to election at coin-or.org.


Strategic Leadership Board

Three (3) 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.

[  ]  Matt Saltzman

[  ]  Andrew Mason

[  ]  Write-in: ___Alan King___

[  ]  Write-in: _______________


Technical Leadership Council

Three (3) 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.

[  ]  Miles Lubin

[  ]  Haroldo Santos

[  ]  Write-in: ___Tony Kelman___

[  ]  Write-in: _________________

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Candidate bios
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Tony Kelman
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Tony Kelman is a Ph.D student in the Department of Mechanical 
Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley. His research 
interests are in real-time online optimization for model predictive 
control (MPC) of large-scale and nonlinear systems, particularly for 
energy applications. He has developed the Berkeley Library for 
Optimization Modeling, which is a toolbox for creating MPC optimization 
formulations in Simulink, using COIN-OR Ipopt as a solver. His 
contributions to COIN-OR include updating the build system for the 
Matlab mex interface to Ipopt to simplify building across Linux, Mac, 
and Windows platforms, as well as compiling statically-linked mex files 
that can be distributed and function across multiple versions of Matlab. 
  He is currently participating in the ongoing effort to update 
BuildTools to use recent GNU autotools versions, and make structural 
improvements to facilitate building Windows DLL's of COIN-OR solvers 
using MinGW compilers.


Alan King
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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 and 
co-chaired the "John Forrest-fest | COIN-OR 10th Anniversary" 
celebration at the Austin INFORMS annual meeting.


Miles Lubin
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Miles Lubin is a Ph.D. student in the Operations Research Center at the 
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Before this, he worked at Argonne 
National Laboratory in Chicago on parallel algorithms for large-scale 
stochastic programming problems. As a result of this work, he received 
the 2013 COIN-OR Cup for modifying the simplex basis factorization 
routines of CoinUtils to perform a customized factorization within a 
parallel implementation of the simplex method. His current work on 
optimization software includes JuMP, an open-source modeling language 
built on top of Julia, a new language for scientific computing, which 
has links to COIN-OR solvers. Miles is interested in improving 
cross-platform usability of COIN-OR software and has recently assumed 
maintainership of the COIN-OR packages in Debian.


Andrew Mason
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Andrew Mason is a Senior Lecturer in the Dept of Engineering Science at 
the University of Auckland and, until recently, was President of 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 60,000 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 and other formal modelling languages to 
be used within Excel.


Ted Ralphs
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Ted Ralphs is an associate professor in the Department of Industrial and 
Systems Engineering at Lehigh University. He is co-founder and director 
of the Laboratory for Computational Optimization Research and chairs 
Lehigh's High-performance Computing Steering Committee. He is a current 
member of the Strategic Leadership Board and current chair of the 
Technical Leadership Council. He serves in an editorial capacity on 
several journals and is a topical editor for the Encyclopedia of 
Operations Research and Management Science. His research is in 
computational optimization and high-performance computing. His interests 
include development of theory and methodology for solving single-level, 
multi-level, multi-stage, and multi-objective integer programs, 
development of parallel search algorithms, development of open source 
software, and applications of integer programming.



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 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, Vice Chair (and Chair Elect) of the INFORMS 
Computing Society, former editor-in-chief of INFORMS Online, and former 
VP for Information Technology.