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You are invited to join us at Gurobi Days Digital, which will be taking place on May 6-7, 2025.

In this virtual event, you will receive training presented by Gurobi technologists and have a chance to engage with the community of Gurobi users from around the world.

This year’s free, two-day event for academic and commercial users will feature the following technical sessions on:

Day 1: Tuesday, May 6

  • Welcome from Gurobi CEO Duke Perrucci
  • Opti 360
  • Mathematical Programming and the Buzzword Jungle
  • Intro to Modeling
  • Advanced Modeling
  • Intro to Algorithms
  • Advanced Algorithms
  • ‘Optimizing’ Optimization: Generative AI Tools for Beginners and Gurobi Experts
  • Performance Tuning
  • Tackling Nonlinearities with Gurobi 12.0

 

Day 2: Wednesday, May 7

  • Partner Presentation
  • Gen AI Panel
  • Hidden Gems
  • New Options for Solving Giant LPs
  • Live: Ask Gurobi Anything

Don’t miss this special virtual event!
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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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Jerry Yurchisin

Senior Data Science Strategist
Gurobi Optimization

Jerry Yurchisin

Senior Data Science Strategist
Gurobi Optimization

Mr. Yurchisin has over ten years’ experience applying operations research, machine learning, statistics, and data visualization to improve decision making. Before joining Gurobi, Jerry (who also goes by Jerome) was a Senior Consultant at OnLocation, Inc. where he customized several linear programming models within the National Energy Modeling System (NEMS) to analyze implementing specific energy policies and utilizing new technologies. Prior to OnLocation, Jerry was an Operations Research Analyst & Data Scientist at Booz Allen Hamilton for over seven years. There he formulated scheduling and staffing integer programming models for the US Coast Guard, as well as led a project to quantify the maritime risks of offshore energy installations with the Research & Development Center. Further, Jerry was the technical lead on several Coast Guard studies including Living Marine Resources and Maritime Domain Awareness, providing statistical analysis and building supervised and unsupervised machine learning models. He also performed statistical analyses, machine learning modeling, and data visualization for cyberspace directorates at DoD and DHS. Jerry has several years of experience teaching a wide variety of college-level mathematics and statistics courses and has a passion for education. He also enjoys golfing, biking, and writing about sports from an analytics point of view. He lives in Alexandria, Virginia with his wife, son, and two dogs. Jerry holds B.S., Ed. and M.S., Mathematics degrees from Ohio University and an M.S. in Operations Research and Statistics from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Jennifer Locke

Manager of Technical Account Management-Americas
Gurobi Optimization

Jennifer Locke

Manager of Technical Account Management-Americas
Gurobi Optimization

Jennifer Locke has over 20 years of professional experience with mathematical, statistical and data analysis software as a software engineer, consultant, pre-sales engineer and product management. She has programming expertise with all major computer programming languages. Prior to joining Gurobi, she was a lead developer on the IMSL (International Mathematical and Statistical Library) engineering team and later serving as IMSL Product Manager. Holds a BSc in Mathematics and Computer Science from College of the Ozarks and completed master’s courses in Mathematics and Computer Science at University of Tennessee Space Institute.

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Ronald van der Velden

Manager of Technical Account Management - EMEA
Gurobi Optimization

Ronald van der Velden

Manager of Technical Account Management - EMEA
Gurobi Optimization

Ronald van der Velden holds a MSc degree in Econometrics and Operations Research at the Erasmus University in Rotterdam. He started his career at Quintiq where he fulfilled various roles ranging from creating planning and scheduling models as a software developer, to business analysis and solution design at customers worldwide, as well as executing technical sales activities like value scans and "one week demo challenges". He also spent two years as a lead developer at a niche company focused on 3D graphics in the entertainment industry before going back to his mathematical roots at Gurobi. In his spare time he loves spending time with his wife and two sons, going for a run on the Veluwe and working on hobby software projects.

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Juan Antonio Orozco Guzmán

Senior Optimization Engineer
Gurobi Optimization

Juan Antonio Orozco Guzmán

Senior Optimization Engineer
Gurobi Optimization

Before joining Gurobi Optimization, Juan spent several years in the IT industry, performing roles in R&D, business intelligence, and data science. He has also taught undergraduate courses about statistical process control and mathematical optimization in the industrial engineering department at ITESM, campus Guadalajara. Juan earned a M.Sc. in statistics and operational research at the University of Edinburgh with distinction. His main interests are in optimization, machine learning, and deep learning.

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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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