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In-Person event

2026 INFORMS Annual Conference

November 1-4, 2026

9:00 AM

San Francisco, CA

In-Person event

2026 INFORMS Annual Conference

November 1-4, 2026

9:00 AM

San Francisco, CA

In-Person event

2026 INFORMS Annual Conference

November 1-4, 2026

9:00 AM

San Francisco, CA

Why you should attend

Gurobi Optimization is excited to be a Platinum sponsor and presenter at the 2026 INFORMS Annual Conference. Join us in San Francisco, CA to:

Learn about the new features and performance enhancements in Gurobi v.14

Experience and play our new Gurobean optimization game

Hear about the great things coming from the Gurobi AI Innovation Lab

Chat with our optimization experts at multiple speaking sessions (see below).

Why you should attend

Gurobi Optimization is excited to be a Platinum sponsor and presenter at the 2026 INFORMS Annual Conference. Join us in San Francisco, CA to:

Learn about the new features and performance enhancements in Gurobi v.14

Experience and play our new Gurobean optimization game

Hear about the great things coming from the Gurobi AI Innovation Lab

Chat with our optimization experts at multiple speaking sessions (see below).

Why you should attend

Gurobi Optimization is excited to be a Platinum sponsor and presenter at the 2026 INFORMS Annual Conference. Join us in San Francisco, CA to:

Learn about the new features and performance enhancements in Gurobi v.14

Experience and play our new Gurobean optimization game

Hear about the great things coming from the Gurobi AI Innovation Lab

Chat with our optimization experts at multiple speaking sessions (see below).

Meet the Gurobi team at Booth #401

Workshop

Session: From Optimization to Intelligence: What's New in Gurobi 14 and the Future of AI

Presenters: Oliver Bastert, Chief Technology Officer, Gurobi | Robert Luce, Senior Director of Optimization R&D, Gurobi | Lindsay Montanari, Senior Director of Academic Programs, Gurobi

Location: Room 102 of Moscone Center South

Date & Time: Saturday, October 31 | 3:00 pm – 4:15 pm

Details: Discover the latest innovations in Gurobi Optimizer 14 and explore how optimization is evolving alongside generative AI. This interactive session will provide an overview of new capabilities, introduce the Gurobean game, and showcase how Gurobi's GAIL team is applying AI to help users solve complex decision-making challenges. Bring your questions for an open discussion with Gurobi experts.

Technology Showcase

Session: Your Optimization Copilot: Accelerating Better Decisions with Gurobi Intelligence Hub

Presenters: Caroline Weinberg, Manager of Optimization Support, Gurobi | Nicholas Parham, Technical Account Manager, Gurobi

Location: Moscone South - 101 (South Lobby)

Date & Time: Sunday, November 1 | 1:15 pm – 1:50 pm

Details: Imagine giving every stakeholder the ability to interact with optimization through natural language and AI-guided assistance. This session showcases Gurobi Intelligence Hub and the intelligent capabilities designed to simplify model development, improve collaboration, and help organizations turn optimization expertise into business impact at scale. See how AI can help bridge the gap between complex models and confident decision-making.

Invited Sessions

Session: Brewing Better Decisions: Gamification as a Gateway to Optimization with Gurobean

Presenters: Lindsay Montanari & Larry Snyder

Location: Marriott Marquis-Sierra E (5th Floor)

Date & Time: Sunday, November 1 | 4:50 pm – 5:05 pm

Details: Gurobean is an interactive educational game designed to introduce core operations research concepts through a simulated coffee shop. Players make operational decisions involving inventory, pricing, and service capacity under stochastic demand. Progressive rounds expose learners to feasibility, nonlinear trade-offs, queueing effects, and simulation-based optimization. Developed by Gurobi Optimization and Larry Snyder, Gurobean demonstrates how gamification can support experiential learning in OR education.

Session: MIP Restrictions for nonconvex MINLPs

Presenters: Hassan Hijazi

Location: Moscone South-209

Date & Time: Monday, November 2 | 11:30 am – 11:45 am

Details: MIP restrictions are a promising tool for finding high-quality feasible solutions to hard non-convex MINLPs. The feasible region of a restriction is guaranteed to be a subset of the original problem’s feasible region, ensuring that solutions obtained during Branch-and-Bound exploration remain feasible to all nonlinear constraints. This property is particularly valuable in applications with tight time limits. In this talk, we define MIP restrictions and discuss methods for automatically generating them for generic MINLPs. We also present use cases, including models from the ARPA-E Grid Optimization Competition.

Session: Gurobi Intelligence: GenAI and Gurobi

Presenters: Caroline Weinberg

Location: Moscone South-210

Date & Time: Monday, November 2 | 11:30 am – 11:45 am

Details: This session showcases the Gurobi Intelligence Hub, our home for GenAI-powered optimization tools. We will highlight real-world use cases and key lessons learned from deploying our Gurobot, Explainer, and Modeler agents, and share our perspective on the most promising directions for integrating generative AI with mathematical optimization. Attendees will also get a preview of upcoming developments and learn how to access our agents programmatically.

Session: Recent Developments in the Gurobi MILP Solver

Presenters: Oliver Bastert

Location: Moscone South-209

Date & Time: Monday, November 2 | 11:45 am – 12:00 pm

Details: Performance improvements to the Gurobi MILP Solver will be discussed. In particular, we will focus on very hard problems that take many branch-and-bound nodes to solve.

Session: Computational Experiments with QPUs and Nested Dissection Ordering in the Barrier Algorithm for Linear Programming

Presenters: Ed Klotz

Location: Moscone South-211

Date & Time: Monday, November 2 | 4:45 pm – 5:00 pm

Details: Among the many long term scenarios for the impact of quantum computing on mathematical optimization, hybrid quantum/classical methods are promising because they can leverage the strengths of quantum computers for specific operations while leaving calculations on which they are less effective to classical computers. Probably the most common hybrid methods involve using the Quantum Processor Unit (QPU) for fast heuristics to find good solutions for Mixed Integer Programs that would otherwise take longer to find. Another common method involves solving subproblems in a decomposition algorithm more effectively than can be done classically. Both of these are primarily applied to optimization problems with discrete variables. However, other hybrid approaches exist, including ones that can help with linear programs (LPs) and other continuous optimization problems. Specifically LP algorithms rely on heuristics for the underlying, NP hard, ordering problems in order to find good orderings for the matrix factorizations they compute. This raises the question of whether QPUs can effectively provide better orderings that result in faster overall performance for the algorithm. This talk will consider such an approach for the Cholesky factorization used in the barrier algorithm for linear programs.

Session: Recent Developments in the Gurobi Optimizer

Presenters: Dan Steffy

Location: Moscone South-207

Date & Time: Monday, November 2 | 4:30 pm – 4:45 pm

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.

Session: Nonlinear Modeling with gurobipy

Presenters: Robert Luce

Location: Moscone South-206

Date & Time: Tuesday, November 3 | 5:00 pm – 5:15 pm

Details: In this talk we walk through the recent additions to gurobipy for modeling nonlinear optimization problems. The new expression-based interface allows nonlinear relationships to be formulated directly using algebraic expressions, providing a natural mapping between mathematical models and their implementation. We will introduce the underlying modeling concepts and discuss vectorized operations on variables, expressions, and constraints. These capabilities enable concise model formulations and support efficient implementation patterns, particularly for applications involving large-scale collections of optimization objects. Several examples will demonstrate the resulting modeling workflow and code structure.

Meet our Team Onsite

Caroline Weinberg
Manager of Optimization Support
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.
Dan Steffy
Senior Optimization Engineer
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.
Becky Busby
Marketing Director
Becky Busby is a seasoned marketing leader with over 20 years of experience driving growth for brands across diverse B2B industries. Her career spans sales, creative agency work, and marketing for Fortune 100 companies, giving her a well-rounded perspective on the customer journey. Becky thrives in roles where strategic planning meets creative execution. She holds a B.S. in Marketing from the University of Idaho and lives in the Seattle area. Outside of work, she enjoys traveling, and spending time with her nieces and nephews.
Lindsay Montanari
Senior Director of Academic Programs
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.
Dan Beran
Senior Account Manager
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.
Iulia Turcan
Senior Marketing Manager, Academic Programs
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.
Anita Bowers
Senior Account Manager
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.
Ed Klotz
Senior Mathematical Optimization Specialist
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.
Marta Miller
Account Manager
Marta holds a Master of Arts in Education from Sierra Nevada University in Nevada and a Master of Russian and English Philology from Adam Mickiewicz University in Poland. While working in education, Marta was using technology and innovative methods to provide support with digital tools, technology integration, coaching, management, teaching, developing professional learning and serving as a 21st Century Program Specialist. As a Sales Development Representative, Marta helps introduce Gurobi to companies that could benefit from mathematical optimization. In her free time, Marta enjoys spending time with her loved ones, traveling, hiking, going to the gym and playing with her dog.
Xavier Nodet
Senior Product Manager
Xavier Nodet is the Development Manager for Gurobi Optimizer. Since he received his diploma in Computer Science and Operations Research from Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, Xavier has been working in the optimization field. Prior to joining Gurobi, he was the Development Manager for IBM ILOG CPLEX Optimization Studio, and the manager of the CPLEX Development team. Before that, he was a consultant, a consulting team lead, a Development Engineer and a Project Manager at ILOG and then IBM. When he's not with his family, Xavier loves to sing with the Choeur Région Sud, or drive his motorcycle through beautiful sceneries.
Dan Steffy
Senior Optimization Engineer
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.
Oliver Bastert
Chief Technology Officer
Oliver brings a wealth of experience as an innovative and results-driven product leader with over two decades of expertise in B2B software, SaaS, and AI technologies. Prior to joining Gurobi, Oliver served as Vice President of Product Management at FICO, where he led product management for Analytics/ML, GenAI, and Optimization. His leadership was instrumental in delivering cutting-edge SaaS capabilities, including high-throughput, low-latency execution of fraud models, predictive modeling software for scores, social network analysis, and mathematical optimization solvers. Before his tenure at FICO, Oliver was a member of the R&D team at Dash Optimization, where he contributed to the development of advanced mixed-integer programming algorithms. Oliver’s passion for mathematical optimization and its practical applications has been a cornerstone of his career. He has consulted on optimization projects across diverse industries and he brings experience in technical sales and teaching. He holds a doctorate in applied mathematics from the Technical University of Munich and a diploma in mathematics and computer science from the University of Cologne.
Hassan Hijazi
Senior Developer
Hassan Hijazi holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Aix-Marseille University. During his early career, Hassan was part of Orange Labs, the École Polytechnique, National ICT Australia, the Australian National University, and Los Alamos National Laboratory.
In 2015, Hassan received the Rising Star Award from the Australian Society for Operations Research. In 2021, he was the winner of the ARPA-E Grid Optimization Competition, ranking 1st across all divisions. In 2022, he won the Monarch of the Mountain round.
During his free time, Hassan likes to play soccer, and practice kickboxing. He also enjoys playing board games and spending time outdoors camping with his family.
Nicholas Parham
Technical Account Manager
Nicholas Parham holds a B.S. in Operations Research from the United States Air Force Academy and an M.S. in Operations Research from the Colorado School of Mines. His background includes formal study in computer science, economics, business, and applied mathematics, complemented by practical experience in data science, software engineering, web development, and cybersecurity. Throughout his career, he has worked with cloud, academic, government, and high-performance computing environments. A Miami native, Nicholas is proficient in Spanish and eager to support optimization initiatives across Latin America.

Meet our Team Onsite

Manager of Optimization Support
Caroline Weinberg
Senior Optimization Engineer
Dan Steffy
Marketing Director
Becky Busby
Senior Director of Academic Programs
Lindsay Montanari
Senior Account Manager
Dan Beran
Senior Marketing Manager, Academic Programs
Iulia Turcan
Senior Account Manager
Anita Bowers
Senior Mathematical Optimization Specialist
Ed Klotz
Account Manager
Marta Miller
Senior Product Manager
Xavier Nodet
Senior Optimization Engineer
Dan Steffy
Chief Technology Officer
Oliver Bastert
Senior Developer
Hassan Hijazi
Technical Account Manager
Nicholas Parham

Meet our Team Onsite

Caroline Weinberg
Manager of Optimization Support
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.
Dan Steffy
Senior Optimization Engineer
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.
Becky Busby
Marketing Director
Becky Busby is a seasoned marketing leader with over 20 years of experience driving growth for brands across diverse B2B industries. Her career spans sales, creative agency work, and marketing for Fortune 100 companies, giving her a well-rounded perspective on the customer journey. Becky thrives in roles where strategic planning meets creative execution. She holds a B.S. in Marketing from the University of Idaho and lives in the Seattle area. Outside of work, she enjoys traveling, and spending time with her nieces and nephews.
Lindsay Montanari
Senior Director of Academic Programs
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.
Dan Beran
Senior Account Manager
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.
Iulia Turcan
Senior Marketing Manager, Academic Programs
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.
Anita Bowers
Senior Account Manager
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.
Ed Klotz
Senior Mathematical Optimization Specialist
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.
Marta Miller
Account Manager
Marta holds a Master of Arts in Education from Sierra Nevada University in Nevada and a Master of Russian and English Philology from Adam Mickiewicz University in Poland. While working in education, Marta was using technology and innovative methods to provide support with digital tools, technology integration, coaching, management, teaching, developing professional learning and serving as a 21st Century Program Specialist. As a Sales Development Representative, Marta helps introduce Gurobi to companies that could benefit from mathematical optimization. In her free time, Marta enjoys spending time with her loved ones, traveling, hiking, going to the gym and playing with her dog.
Xavier Nodet
Senior Product Manager
Xavier Nodet is the Development Manager for Gurobi Optimizer. Since he received his diploma in Computer Science and Operations Research from Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, Xavier has been working in the optimization field. Prior to joining Gurobi, he was the Development Manager for IBM ILOG CPLEX Optimization Studio, and the manager of the CPLEX Development team. Before that, he was a consultant, a consulting team lead, a Development Engineer and a Project Manager at ILOG and then IBM. When he's not with his family, Xavier loves to sing with the Choeur Région Sud, or drive his motorcycle through beautiful sceneries.
Dan Steffy
Senior Optimization Engineer
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.
Oliver Bastert
Chief Technology Officer
Oliver brings a wealth of experience as an innovative and results-driven product leader with over two decades of expertise in B2B software, SaaS, and AI technologies. Prior to joining Gurobi, Oliver served as Vice President of Product Management at FICO, where he led product management for Analytics/ML, GenAI, and Optimization. His leadership was instrumental in delivering cutting-edge SaaS capabilities, including high-throughput, low-latency execution of fraud models, predictive modeling software for scores, social network analysis, and mathematical optimization solvers. Before his tenure at FICO, Oliver was a member of the R&D team at Dash Optimization, where he contributed to the development of advanced mixed-integer programming algorithms. Oliver’s passion for mathematical optimization and its practical applications has been a cornerstone of his career. He has consulted on optimization projects across diverse industries and he brings experience in technical sales and teaching. He holds a doctorate in applied mathematics from the Technical University of Munich and a diploma in mathematics and computer science from the University of Cologne.
Hassan Hijazi
Senior Developer
Hassan Hijazi holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Aix-Marseille University. During his early career, Hassan was part of Orange Labs, the École Polytechnique, National ICT Australia, the Australian National University, and Los Alamos National Laboratory.
In 2015, Hassan received the Rising Star Award from the Australian Society for Operations Research. In 2021, he was the winner of the ARPA-E Grid Optimization Competition, ranking 1st across all divisions. In 2022, he won the Monarch of the Mountain round.
During his free time, Hassan likes to play soccer, and practice kickboxing. He also enjoys playing board games and spending time outdoors camping with his family.
Nicholas Parham
Technical Account Manager
Nicholas Parham holds a B.S. in Operations Research from the United States Air Force Academy and an M.S. in Operations Research from the Colorado School of Mines. His background includes formal study in computer science, economics, business, and applied mathematics, complemented by practical experience in data science, software engineering, web development, and cybersecurity. Throughout his career, he has worked with cloud, academic, government, and high-performance computing environments. A Miami native, Nicholas is proficient in Spanish and eager to support optimization initiatives across Latin America.

Meet Our Team Onsite

Manager of Optimization Support

Caroline Weinberg

Senior Optimization Engineer

Dr. Dan Steffy

Marketing Director

Becky Busby

Senior Director of Academic Programs

Lindsay Montanari

Senior Account Manager

Dan Beran

Senior Marketing Manager, Academic Programs

Iulia Turcan

Meet Our Team Onsite

Manager of Optimization Support

Caroline Weinberg

Senior Optimization Engineer

Dr. Dan Steffy

Marketing Director

Becky Busby

Senior Director of Academic Programs

Lindsay Montanari

Senior Account Manager

Dan Beran

Senior Marketing Manager, Academic Programs

Iulia Turcan

Meet Our Team Onsite

Manager of Optimization Support

Caroline Weinberg

Senior Optimization Engineer

Dr. Dan Steffy

Marketing Director

Becky Busby

Senior Director of Academic Programs

Lindsay Montanari

Senior Account Manager

Dan Beran

Senior Marketing Manager, Academic Programs

Iulia Turcan