Steering Committee changes
announcements ·Author: Miles Lubin, Carleton Coffrin, Oscar Dowson, and Changhyun Kwon
Recently, Juan Pablo Vielma notified the JuMP Steering Committee that he is stepping down (effective immediately) from his role on the Steering Committee.
Juan Pablo was instrumental in the success of JuMP, supervising Miles Lubin and
Joey Huchette as Ph.D. students at MIT. Juan Pablo helped organize the first
three iterations of the JuMP-dev workshop: JuMP-dev 2017 at
MIT, JuMP-dev 2018 in Bordeaux, and JuMP-dev 2019
in Santiago, Chile. More recently, Juan Pablo was a Principal Investigator of
the NSF funding that has funded the
majority of JuMP maintenance over the last three years. In addition to his
non-code contributions, Juan Pablo also ended up being the author of many of the
early BinaryBuilder packages that enabled JuMP to distribute precompiled
open-source binaries to users. Juan Pablo now works at Google, where he manages
the team building MathOpt,
a new interface in OR-Tools that is heavily inspired by JuMP.
Following our Governance procedures, the remaining Steering Committee members have invited Julian Hall (@jajhall) to join the Steering Committee.
Julian is the lead developer of HiGHS, the world’s fastest open-source MIP solver, and he is someone that the JuMP team have worked closely with over a number of years.
Welcome Julian! We hope to share more information about our plans for closer collaboration between the JuMP and HiGHS teams in the near future.