Steering Committee changes


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.