John D. Siirola is a Principal R&D Member of Technical Staff in the Discrete Math and Optimization Department within the Center for Computing Research at Sandia National Laboratories. His main areas of expertise are systems design, operations research, optimization modeling, and optimization algorithms. John’s research focuses on the intersection of computational tools with systems design and analysis; in particular, developing approaches for modeling highly structured systems, optimization algorithms that can exploit the expressed structure, and the application of these techniques to national security problems. Much of John’s attention focuses on the development and application of open source computational tools: he is the Sandia PI for the Institute for the Design of Advanced Energy Systems (IDAES), and contributes to the IDAES-PSE Toolkit. He is also a core Pyomo developer and serves on the Pyomo Management Committee (optimization modeling). John has a B.S. from Purdue University (2000) and Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University (2005), both in Chemical Engineering. He is a senior member of AIChE, member of INFORMS, and member of the COIN-OR Foundation. John currently serves as the AIChE CAST Division Secretary/Treasurer and is a member of the COIN-OR Technical Leadership Council.
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