[Coin-voting-members] 2014 Election Ballot, COIN-OR Directors

[Lou Hafer]

Please fill out the ballot below and return it to the email address 
"election at coin-or.org". Ballots must be received by 24:00 (midnight) 
Eastern Daylight Time (UTC-4), Sunday, November 9th, 2014.

Members attending the San Francisco INFORMS Conference may vote in 
person at the start of the COIN-OR Members and User's Meeting, to be 
held Monday, November 10th, 2014, at 12:30 in Continental 1, BR Level.

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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 
statements appear immediately after the ballot.


Strategic Leadership Board

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.

[  ]  Robert Fourer

[  ]  Write-in: _______________

[  ]  Write-in: _______________


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.

[  ]  John Siirola

[  ]  Mike Steglich

[  ]  Stefan Vigerske

[  ]  Victor Zverovich

[  ]  Write-in: _________________

[  ]  Write-in: _________________


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Candidate Statements
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Robert Fourer
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Robert Fourer is President of AMPL Optimization Inc., and was a member 
of the Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences faculty at 
Northwestern University from 1979 to 2012.  His longstanding interest in 
the design and implementation of large-scale systems for modeling and 
solving optimization problems has been represented in numerous writings 
on these topics and over 200 talks at professional meetings.  He 
previously served on the COIN-OR board from 2005 to 2011, and was a 
founding contributor to the design of the NEOS Server and to the COIN-OR 
Optimization Services project.


John Siirola
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John Siirola is a Principal 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 co-lead of the Coopr COIN-OR project and 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).  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.


Mike Steglich
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Mike Steglich is a professor at the Faculty of Business, Computing and 
Law at the Technical University of Applied Sciences Wildau (Germany). 
His current research interests are mathematical programming languages, 
distributed and grid optimisation and combined simulation and 
optimisation. He is an active COIN-OR member and project manager of CMPL 
(<Coliop|Coin> Mathematical Programming Language). This COIN-OR project 
includes CMPL, pyCMPL and jCMPL as application programming interfaces 
for Python and Java and additionally CMPLServer – an XML-RPC-based web 
service for distributed and grid optimisation. Recently he created the 
CMPL plugin for Andrew Mason’s SolverStudio.


Stefan Vigerske
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Stefan Vigerske is a software developer at GAMS Software GmbH, Germany. 
He obtained his Ph.D. from the Department of Mathematics at Humboldt 
University Berlin, Germany. His research interests are in mixed-integer 
nonlinear programming. He has been involved in COIN-OR since 2006 as 
Project Manager for the projects LaGO (Lagrangian Global Optimizer; now 
inactive) and GAMSlinks (links for open source solvers to GAMS). In the 
recent past, he has worked on the COIN-OR build system (BuildTools). He 
was first elected to the TLC in 2009.


Victor Zverovich
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Victor Zverovich is a software developer at AMPL Optimization, Inc. He 
earned his Ph.D. in Operations Research at Brunel University, West 
London.  His research interests include algebraic modeling languages and 
optimization under uncertainty. He is working on the open-source AMPL/MP 
project which provides a modern type-safe API for connecting solvers to 
AMPL as well as a high-performance reusable .nl file reader, support for 
stochastic programming, bindings for the GNU Scientific Library and 
interfaces to various solvers such as Gecode, JaCoP, IBM CPLEX CP 
Optimizer and LocalSolver. Victor has developed CMake build scripts for 
COIN-OR solvers Clp, Cbc, Ipopt, Bonmin and Couenne. These scripts 
simplify multi-platform builds and improve support for modern build 
systems and IDEs. He maintains binary releases of COIN-OR and other 
open-source solvers for AMPL on all major platforms.