[Coin-voting-members] COIN-OR Election Ballot - SLB and TLC Directors

[William Hart]

Folks,

We're a bit late holding the election this year, which unfortunately
is mostly my fault.

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), Monday, March 13th, 2016.

Election results will also be announced by email. Thank you for taking
the time to vote for COIN-OR Directors!

Bill Hart
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 statements appear immediately after the ballot.


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
[  ]  Horand Gassmann
[  ]  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.

[  ]  Ted Ralphs

[  ]  Write-in: _________________

[  ]  Write-in: _________________


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Candidate Statements
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Horand Gassmann
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Horand Gassmann is a Professor at the Rowe School of Business at
Dalhousie University (Halifax, Canada). He received his Ph.D. in
Commerce from the University of British Columbia. His major field of
research is Stochastic Programming. He  also has a long-standing
interest in the development of formats for data interchange and was a
co-developer of the SMPS format for stochastic linear programs. His
involvement in COIN-OR development dates back to 2006, when he started
contributing to the Optimization Services (OS) project. He is
currently a co-manager of the OS project (along with Kipp Martin and
Jun Ma).

Andrew Mason
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Andrew Mason is an Associate Professor at the University of Auckland
where he teaches and publishes in Operations Research. In 2011, he
drew on his experience of teaching with Excel to create OpenSolver, an
open-source add-in for Excel that makes the COIN-OR solvers CBC,
BonMin and Couenne available to a large world-wide user base. He has
also developed SolverStudio which brings modelling languages,
including the COIN-OR PuLP and Pyomo systems, to more advanced Excel
users. He has many years experience distributing and supporting these
systems through Wordpress web sites, experience which he has leveraged
to help implement the new COIN-OR web site. He seeks to bring a
Windows viewpoint to the COIN-OR initiative, and thereby help grow the
user base for the COIN-OR software beyond the stereotypical Linux
programmer.

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 and is the current chair of the Technical Leadership
Council, as well as a member of the Strategic Leadership Board and a
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.


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