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Join us at the INFORMS Annual Meeting

Gurobi is proud to sponsor the INFORMS Annual Meeting, happening October 26 – 29 in Atlanta, Georgia!

Visit us at Booth 308 to:

  • Learn about the new features and performance enhancements in our upcoming release – Gurobi 13.0.
  • Meet and chat with our optimization experts.
  • Pick up the latest Gurobi swag, stickers and more (while supplies last).
  • Participate in our T-shirt contest!  Get your Gurobi T-shirt at our booth, or any of our speaking sessions listed below.  If your spotted wearing your shirt during the conference, you will get a chance to win a Nintendo Switch 2. The winner will be announced in the Gurobi booth at 4:30pm on Tuesday, October 28th.

 

 

Hear exclusive presentations at INFORMS Annual Meeting from Gurobi Presenters. 

Pre-Conference Workshop
Session: Pushing the Boundaries of Optimization: What’s New in Gurobi 13 and Beyond  
Presenters: Dr. Ed Klotz, Dr. Robert Luce, Dr. Dan Steffy, and Dr. Rodrigo Fuentes from Gurobi Optimization
Location: Building A, Level 3, Room A315
Time: 2:30 – 3:45 & 4:00 – 5:15 PM
Date: Saturday, October 26, 2024
Details:

Join Gurobi’s expert team for a deep dive into the latest advancements in mathematical optimization. This workshop will explore new features in Gurobi 13, including a CPU-based PDHG solver and a local nonlinear solver. Gain insights into emerging technologies like generative AI for optimization, quantum computing,  and our progress on GPU acceleration. The session will conclude with a dynamic panel discussion on the future of optimization and AI. Whether you’re an academic, practitioner, or student, this is your chance to engage directly with Gurobi’s developers and expand your understanding of cutting-edge optimization tools. 

 

Presentation
Session: Recent Advances in the Gurobi Global MINLP Solver
Presenters: Dr. Rodrigo Fuentes, Sr. Technical Account Manager
Location: Building B, Level 2, Room B208
Time: 1:15 – 2:30 PM
Date: Sunday, October 26, 2025
Details: MILP solver codes have been around for more than 50 years.  Their spatial branching counterparts that solve MINLPs to optimality are in an earlier stage of development, making bigger performance improvements easier to accomplish. This talk will discuss performance improvements to the Gurobi MINLP solver as well as support for additional nonconvex nonlinear functions such as the hyperbolic tangent function and the signed power function.

 

Panel
Session: WORMS Panel: Life After the PhD: Exploring Careers in Industry and Academia
Presenters: Dr. Cara Touretzky, Sr. Technical Account Manager
Location: Building A, Level 4, A411
Time: 2:45 – 4:00 PM
Date: Sunday, October 26, 2025
Details: This is not a debate – it’s a conversation. In this panel, organized by WORMS, speakers who have worked in both academia and industry will share candid insights about the realities of each path. Drawing from their own career journeys, panelists will highlight the opportunities and challenges they’ve encountered, how their goals evolved over time, and what they wish they had known when making career decisions. While the session is especially geared toward PhD students and recent graduates exploring their options, anyone curious about post-PhD careers – whether considering a switch or simply seeking clarity – will find value in the discussion. Beyond the broad categories of “industry” and “academia,” panelists will also touch on the wide spectrum of roles available within each domain, including research labs, startups, consulting, tenure-track positions, and more. Join us for an open and practical conversation about how to navigate your career after the PhD—and how to shape it on your own terms.

 

Technology Showcase
Session: Building Trust in Optimization
Presenters: Caroline Weinberg, Manager of Optimization Support
Location: Building A, Level 3, Room A301
Time: 11:00 – 11:35 AM
Date: Monday, October 27, 2025
Details:

In this session we will explore some of Gurobi’s advanced features through the lens of solution explainability, including solution pools, infeasibility analysis, and multi-scenario analysis. Explainability in practice requires both technical skills and successful communication with stakeholders who don’t know how Gurobi works (and that’s ok!). We show how these tools are not just for modeling – they can help users interpret optimization results and build trust their solutions. 

 

Technology Showcase
Session: Cracking the Vault with Gurobot: Generative AI and the Future of Mathematical Modeling
Presenters: Dr. Cara Touretzky, Sr. Technical Account Manager
Location: Building A, Level 3, Room A301
Time: 1:55 – 2:30 PM
Date: Monday, October 27, 2025
Details:

Discover how Gurobi is exploring the use of generative AI to support and streamline the modeling of mathematical optimization problems. Through the lens of a hands-on museum heist challenge, we’ll walk through examples of AI-assisted modeling across varying levels of complexity. We’ll highlight current capabilities, acknowledge present limitations, and offer a glimpse into where we’re headed next as we expand the role of AI in the modeling workflow.
Presentation
Session: Opportunities and Challenges for LP and MIP on the GPU
Presenters: Dr. Robert Luce
Location: Building B, Level 2, Room B201
Time: 4:15 – 5:30 PM
Date: Monday, October 27, 2025
Details:

Recent GPU hardware generations offer high compute throughput for many applications in machine learning, scientific computing, and beyond. How does this new compute power translate into improvements in solving real-world linear and mixed-integer optimization problems in practice?

We review Gurobi’s efforts and research findings on solving optimization problems on the GPU. We touch interior point methods, first-order methods, and relaxation-based MIP heuristics, and we frame these in terms of their applicability and usability on the GPU. Finally, we’ll showcase how Gurobi’s preliminary GPU-based components compare, performance-wise, to our standard CPU-based counterparts across a wide range of real-world models
Presentation
Session: Recent Developments in the Gurobi MILP Solver “Integer and Discrete Optimization”
Presenters: Dr. Ed Klotz
Location: Building B, Level 2, Room B213
Time: 11:00 – 12:15 PM
Date: Tuesday, October 28, 2025
Details:
Performance improvements to the Gurobi MILP Solver will be discussed. Topics include extending large neighborhood search heuristics such as RINS (Relaxation Induced Neighborhood Search) to make use of infeasible integral vectors, and extensions to Optimization Based Bound Tightening (OBBT) to handle specific constructs common to some challenging MILP and MINLP problems.
Presentation
Session: Recent Developments in the Gurobi Optimizer
Presenters: Dr. Dan Steffy, Sr. Optimization Engineer
Location: Building B, Level 2, Room B212
Time: 11:00 AM – 12:15 PM
Date: Tuesday, October 28, 2025
Details:

This talk will discuss new features and performance enhancements in the Gurobi Optimizer for LP, MILP and Global MINLP. We will also present preliminary performance results for the upcoming release.
Technology Showcase
Session: Optimization Education with Gurobi: A Social-Impact Case Study
Presenters: Lindsay Montanari & Everett Dutton
Location: Building A, Level 3, Room A301
Time: 1:55 – 2:30 PM
Date: Tuesday, October 28, 2025
Details:

Gurobi, in partnership with ESUPS (Emergency Supply Pre-positioning Strategy), presents a new educational case study showcasing ESUPS’ utilization of optimization to stage relief inventory for humanitarian organizations. ESUPS unites NGOs, UN agencies, governments, and academics to improve logistics preparedness. The STOCKHOLM platform (STOCK of Humanitarian Organizations Logistics Mapping) applies data analytics techniques including optimization to determine where to pre-position supplies, minimize response times, and maximize coverage in crises where every hour matters. This case study guides students and instructors through the full optimization pipeline: translating a complex humanitarian challenge into data, math, and models that support real-world decision making. Freely available, it gives learners hands-on experience with optimization in action, demonstrating how these methods can transform disaster response and deliver measurable social impact.
Presentation
Session: Exploring the Interplay between LLMs and Mathematical Optimization Model Building
Presenters: Erik Halseth, Technical Account Manager
Location: Building B, Level 2, Room B201
Time: 2:45 – 4:00 PM
Date: Tuesday, October 28, 2025
Details:

Generative AI tools are being positioned to transform the workflows surrounding mathematical optimization. At Gurobi, we want to leverage opportunities in this space while honoring the importance of practicing classical model development techniques. We’ll walk you through some work aimed at equipping users with knowledge and tools for leveraging LLMs to develop and execute optimization models with gurobipy. We will hone in a hypothetical workflow that will serve to highlight aspects on bridging together LLMs and mathematical optimization models. Whether you’re starting your optimization journey or fine-tuning your skills, discover how these innovative AI resources can boost your decisioning systems.

 

Meet the Experts

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Dr. Ed Klotz

Senior Mathematical Optimization Specialist
Gurobi Optimization

Dr. Ed Klotz

Senior Mathematical Optimization Specialist
Gurobi Optimization

Dr. Ed Klotz has over 30 years of experience in the mathematical optimization software industry. He is a technical expert who, over the course of his career, has worked with a wide array of customers to help them solve some of world’s most challenging mathematical optimization problems. In his role as a Senior Mathematical Optimization Specialist on the Gurobi R&D team, Dr. Klotz works closely with our customers to support them in implementing and utilizing mathematical optimization in their organizations. He also interacts heavily with the R&D team based on his experiences with the customers.

Prior to joining Gurobi, Dr. Klotz was a member of the CPLEX development team of IBM. He was involved in product development, customer training, product documentation, and numerous other tasks, with a primary focus on delivering CPLEX customer support and leveraging his experiences with customers to help inform the R&D team about customer needs and product improvements. Dr. Klotz has extensive knowledge in linear programming, integer programming, and numerical linear algebra for finite precision computing. Using this knowledge, he was able to investigate customer support issues at the source code level and identify potential improvements in CPLEX, both in terms of performance and accuracy of computation.

Before joining IBM, Dr. Klotz was a principal technical support engineer at ILOG, Inc., and a mathematical programming specialist at CPLEX Optimization, Inc.

Dr. Klotz has presented at numerous conferences, workshops, and web seminars and published numerous papers on mathematical optimization. His interests are in all aspects of mathematical programming, with a primary interest in research that can impact mathematical programming software. He obtained a BA in Math and Economics from Oberlin College and a PhD in Operations Research from Stanford University.

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Dr. Rodrigo Fuentes

Senior Technical Account Manager
Gurobi Optimization

Dr. Rodrigo Fuentes

Senior Technical Account Manager
Gurobi Optimization

Dr. Rodrigo Fuentes joined Gurobi in 2020 as a technical account manager. He completed his PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Waterloo, Canada, where his research work was focused on using different optimization techniques applied to the optimal use of hydro and thermal units. Prior to joining Gurobi he worked as a software engineer in various technical roles for Open Systems International, Open Access Technology International and Siemens, which serve electric, gas and oil utility businesses, exposing him to different and interesting optimization problems.
Rodrigo enjoys spending his free time with his wife, cooking, biking and playing soccer.

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Dr. Cara Touretzky

Senior Technical Account Manager
Gurobi Optimization

Dr. Cara Touretzky

Senior Technical Account Manager
Gurobi Optimization

Dr. Cara Touretzky holds a BChE from University of Delaware and PhD in Chemical Engineering from The University of Texas at Austin. During her graduate work she studied dynamic optimization and model-based process control, with applications ranging from HVAC system automation to production scheduling for chemical processes. Prior to Gurobi she worked as an Application Engineer for ExxonMobil managing nonlinear controller deployments for plastic plants in the gulf coast. Cara participates in several organizations including INFORMS, IEEE, and AIChE, where she has served as a program director for the process control division.

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Dr. Dan Steffy

Senior Optimization Engineer
Gurobi Optimization

Dr. Dan Steffy

Senior Optimization Engineer
Gurobi Optimization

Dr. Steffy received his PhD in Algorithms, Combinatorics and Optimization from the Georgia Institute of Technology. He has published many papers in scientific journals, including work on computing numerically exact solutions to linear and integer programming problems. Prior to joining Gurobi in 2022 he was an Associate Professor of Mathematics at Oakland University. He also spent time working as a researcher at the Zuse Institute Berlin. In his free time he loves being outdoors, playing board games and spending time with his wife and two daughters.

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Erik Halseth

Technical Account Manager
Gurobi

Erik Halseth

Technical Account Manager
Gurobi

Erik Halseth has over 16 years of client-centric experience with a diverse background in technical government consulting, commercial sales, and data-focused solutions architecture. He is also a domain specialist for consulting, architecting, and programming trading systems in real-time advertising markets based on economic auctions. Prior to joining Gurobi, he provided pre-sales consulting, software solutions architecture and technical account management services at The Trade Desk in custom data decisioning solutions for large enterprise clients. He began his career at Booz Allen Hamilton where he supported software data management systems, delivered advanced analytics, and crafted strategic studies to government agencies. He holds an Operations Research M.S. degree from George Mason University with a Computer Science B.S. degree from The University of Virginia. Outside of work, he personally enjoys family time, bouldering, physical fitness, language learning (spent time as a professional translator in China), and chess.

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Caroline Weinberg

Manager of Optimization Support
Gurobi

Caroline Weinberg

Manager of Optimization Support
Gurobi

Caroline holds a Master of Business Analytics from MIT Sloan School of Management's Operations Research Center and a B.A. in Mathematics and Economics from Kenyon College. Prior to joining Gurobi, she worked at Pfizer, where she managed cross-functional teams of data scientists and developers to create and deploy custom mathematical optimization solutions for manufacturing operations. Her work involved building optimization models to automate scheduling, improve production planning, manage inventory levels, and reduce material waste. Caroline is passionate about leveraging data science and optimization techniques to solve challenging business problems that drive real impact and value. Outside of her professional work, Caroline enjoys staying active through running, cycling, and hiking. She also has a passion for puzzles, both the jigsaw variety and the New York Times daily games.

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Dr. Robert Luce

Principal Developer
Gurobi Optimization

Dr. Robert Luce

Principal Developer
Gurobi Optimization

Dr. Luce is an experienced researcher in applied mathematics, and author of numerous publications in the fields of numerical linear algebra and optimization. He holds a Ph.D. from Technical University of Berlin.

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Anita Bowers

Senior Account Manager
Gurobi Optimization

Anita Bowers

Senior Account Manager
Gurobi Optimization

Mrs. Bowers holds a Bachelor's Degree in Marketing from the University of Nevada - Reno. During her 10-year career, she has worked in marketing roles for a variety of companies within industries such as manufacturing, insurance, gaming and gambling, and software/technology. Her background includes digital marketing, writing, advertising, analytics, events management, field marketing, direct mail, and more. In her free time, Mrs. Bowers enjoys travel, working out, spending time with her children and playing video games.

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Amandine Michalski

Account Manager
Gurobi Optimization

Amandine Michalski

Account Manager
Gurobi Optimization

Amandine is a French native, she has a Bachelor's degree in Finance and International Business from Fu Jen Catholic University in Taipei and a Master's degree in Global Marketing Management from The University of Sheffield in the UK. She brings international marketing and business development experience in industrial and consumer goods in Europe and Asia. Social responsibility is a huge passion of hers and she is committed to making a positive impact on the community. As a trilingual French/English/Chinese speaker, she has gone on several volunteer missions in Asia and South America. In her spare time, she enjoys spending time with her husband and two kids, riding horses, investing in real estate, and traveling to see the world.

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Dan Beran

Account Manager
Gurobi Optimization

Dan Beran

Account Manager
Gurobi Optimization

As part of the Hunter Team, Mr. Beran is responsible for helping Gurobi develop relationships with customers across a variety of industries. Mr. Beran has over 10 years of B2B sales and business development experience working for companies such as Wells Fargo, Certify Travel & Expense, and Dassault Systemes. Mr. Beran earned recognition at both software companies he worked for, Certify Travel & Expense and Dassault Systemes, for sales performance and ability to effectively execute an account-based marketing strategy. Mr. Beran holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Public Management & Policy from the University of Arizona.

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Everett Dutton

Optimization Strategist
Gurobi

Everett Dutton

Optimization Strategist
Gurobi

Everett holds a Master’s Degree in Industrial and Systems Engineering from The Ohio State University.

Prior to joining Gurobi, Everett developed simulation models at Honda, worked on machine learning and optimization models at Marathon Petroleum, and helped Ohio Children’s Alliance grow its analytics capabilities.

In his free time, Everett enjoys tinkering with anything mechanical, weightlifting, and spending time with his wife and dog.

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Lindsay Montanari

Senior Director of Academic Programs
Gurobi Optimization

Lindsay Montanari

Senior Director of Academic Programs
Gurobi Optimization

Lindsay brings over 13 years of experience working at the intersection of technology and education. Prior to Gurobi, Lindsay worked as an Operations leader at Opex Analytics, a product and services firm dedicated to solving complex business problems using the power of Artificial Intelligence. While there, she focused on growth and business development, product launch, and marketing. Lindsay spent 10 years working in various leadership capacities at Universities including Columbia University, Northwestern University, and the University of Chicago. From 2013 to 2017, she worked to establish and grow the Master of Science in Analytics degree at Northwestern University’s School of Engineering, the program was one of the earliest MS degrees focused on an applied data science curriculum. During her time with Northwestern, she managed external relations and corporate relations, helped hire and onboard new faculty and subject-matter experts in various disciplines of analytics, directed recruiting efforts/admissions/student advising, and managed a team of administrative professionals. Prior to Northwestern, she spent over 5 years working in Advancement at Columbia University’s School of Engineering and Applied Science.   She completed her Bachelor’s Degree in English and Fine Art at Sewanee: The University of the South and her Master’s Degree in Nonprofit Management at Columbia University.

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Iulia Turcan

Academic Program Marketing Manager
Gurobi

Iulia Turcan

Academic Program Marketing Manager
Gurobi

Iulia has 10 years of experience working with marketing teams within the European academic space. Prior to Gurobi she has worked at one of the UKs leading institutions - Nottingham Trent University - overseeing the digital marketing and events strategy for creative technologies academic programmes, focusing on subjects such as virtual production, esports and sound engineering. Born in Romania and having lived in Nottingham, UK for the past 13 years, she enjoys travelling, plane spotting and is a vinyl record collector.

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Jay Atkins

Senior Marketing Events Manager
Gurobi

Jay Atkins

Senior Marketing Events Manager
Gurobi

Jay Atkins has over 17 years of experience in the technology industry, having spent the first 8 years of his career as a successful software seller for IBM. He then transitioned into Event Marketing at IBM and George P. Johnson before joining Gurobi Optimization. For the last 9 years, Jay has strategically planned and executed events of all types. His client-first approach to events helps ensure they are successful and drive positive business results. Jay graduated from Washington & Jefferson College, and holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Business Administration. Outside of work, he enjoys spending time outdoors with his wife and their three children near Pittsburgh, PA.

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Tracy Pesanelli

Senior Enterprise Account Director
Gurobi Optimization

Tracy Pesanelli

Senior Enterprise Account Director
Gurobi Optimization

With more than 35 years of sales and sales management experience in the high tech industry, Ms. Pesanelli is responsible for driving Gurobi’s sales execution. Ms. Pesanelli has been with Gurobi since the beginning and has been a key contributor to the company’s outstanding growth. Before Gurobi, she was Sales Director at Permabit Technology Corporation, a manufacturer of disk-based enterprise archive solutions. Prior to Permabit, Ms. Pesanelli held various sales and sales management positions at ILOG, Inc. from January 2000 to September 2008. Selling ILOG’s Business Rule Management System and CPLEX Optimization product lines, Ms. Pesanelli consistently exceeded sales expectations and was a top performer worldwide. Ms. Pesanelli holds a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. She lives in Boston and enjoys spending time on Cape Cod.

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