We are excited to announce the addition of two new mathematical optimization experts to our FICO Xpress Optimization team! Welcome to our newest team members: Leona Gottwald and Franziska Schlösser.
Leona (right) received her bachelor’s and master’s degree in Computer Science from Freie Universität Berlin. Afterwards, she joined the Optimization team at ZIB and became part of the SCIP team, developers of the renowned academic MIP and MINLP solvers. She was responsible for developing the PaPILO package for parallel presolving of integer and linear optimization problems. After four years at ZIB, she joined the HiGHS team at the University of Edinburgh and single-handedly extended their LP solver to what is, as of today, the fastest open-source MIP solver. In her spare time, Leona enjoys rock concerts and vegan fine dining.
Franziska (left) received her bachelor’s and master’s degree in Mathematics from the Technische Universität Berlin. She has been a member of the SCIP group at Zuse Institute Berlin for more than five years. In her role as DevOps manager, she brought the testing, benchmarking, and QA infrastructure of SCIP to a new level. At FICO, she will be responsible for CI/CD management and QA of the FICO Xpress Solver family, including the recently released global solver. Franziska speaks five languages (and various programming languages) and enjoys playing the board game Go, sometimes against four or more opponents in parallel.
For more updates from our FICO Xpress Optimization team, make sure to follow the Community Optimization Blog and in case you haven’t already, follow us on Twitter for more updates.
Leona (right) received her bachelor’s and master’s degree in Computer Science from Freie Universität Berlin. Afterwards, she joined the Optimization team at ZIB and became part of the SCIP team, developers of the renowned academic MIP and MINLP solvers. She was responsible for developing the PaPILO package for parallel presolving of integer and linear optimization problems. After four years at ZIB, she joined the HiGHS team at the University of Edinburgh and single-handedly extended their LP solver to what is, as of today, the fastest open-source MIP solver. In her spare time, Leona enjoys rock concerts and vegan fine dining.
Franziska (left) received her bachelor’s and master’s degree in Mathematics from the Technische Universität Berlin. She has been a member of the SCIP group at Zuse Institute Berlin for more than five years. In her role as DevOps manager, she brought the testing, benchmarking, and QA infrastructure of SCIP to a new level. At FICO, she will be responsible for CI/CD management and QA of the FICO Xpress Solver family, including the recently released global solver. Franziska speaks five languages (and various programming languages) and enjoys playing the board game Go, sometimes against four or more opponents in parallel.
For more updates from our FICO Xpress Optimization team, make sure to follow the Community Optimization Blog and in case you haven’t already, follow us on Twitter for more updates.
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