Matthew J Saltzman

Position:
Associate Professor of Mathematical Sciences

Education:
PhD, Industrial Administration (Operations Research), Carnegie Mellon University, 1986
MS, Operations Research, Carnegie-Mellon University, 1982
AB, Mathematics and Computer Science, Cornell University, 1977

Professional Interests:
Operations Research and Computer Science, with a focus on computational optimization. Areas of particular interest include: algorithm design (including parallel algorithms); large-scale linear and combinatorial optimization; methods for sparse linear systems; polyhedral theory; software tools; and models and applications in business and public systems, operations management, computer, communications, and information systems. Teaching interests include: operations research methods and applications, data structures and algorithms, logic and constraint programming, and advanced programming.

Professional Activities:

Clemson Computing and Information Technology, Cyberinfrastructure Technology Integration, research staff.

President, The COIN-OR Foundation, Inc.". Project Manager COIN-OR Open Solver Interface. The COIN-OR project develops and distributes open-source software tools for operations research. Open source promotes software reuse to enhance research productivity.

Selected Publications:

• "An Improved Algorithm for Biobjective Integer Programs," Annals of Operations Research 147(1), 2006 (with T. K. Ralphs and M. Wiecek).
• "Parallel branch, cut, and price for large-scale discrete optimization," Mathematical Programming Series B 98(1-3), September 2003, 253-280 (with T. K. Ralphs and L. Ladanyi).
• "Statistical Analysis of Computational Tests of Algorithms and Heuristics,"INFORMS Journal on Computing 12(1), 2000, 24--44 (with M. Coffin)

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