Contributors
Potential contributors to Dakota should review the information on Feature Additions regarding means and terms of contribution.
Historical Dakota Authors
Individuals who have contributed directly to Dakota’s core since its inception in 1993, including source, examples, and infrastructure. Other current developers are listed at About - Team. Format: author (organization when contributing, current affiliation): specific contribution.
Core and Algorithms
Bengt Abel (BMW): interface to NLPQL
Bruce Bainbridge (SNL): core developer, LHS interface
Myles Baker: linear polynomial surrogate model
Ross Bartlett (SNL, now ORNL): rSQP interface (not currently active)
Barron Bichon (SNL, now SWRI): local and global reliability
Michael Brayer (SNL): utilities, IDR input parser
Keith Dalbey (SNL): surrogate models
Brian Dennis (SNL): graphics, response surfaces
Brian Driessen (SNL): core developer, IDR input parser
Danny Dunlavy (SNL): core developer, constrained SBO formulations
Mohamed Ebeida (SNL): domain decomposition surrogates, UQ, and optimization
Dave Gay (SNL, currently AMPL Optimization, LLC and University of New Mexico): core developer
Roger Ghanem (SNL, Johns Hopkins University, now USC): PCE prototype
Tony Giunta (SNL): core developer, Surfpack, SBO, support infrastructure
Bill Hart (SNL): core developer, Acro, branch and bound interfaces
Chris Moen (SNL): core developer, OPT++ interface
Jason Monschke (SNL): active subspace algorithms
Ben Pax (SNL, now Purdue): verification algorithms
John Red-horse (SNL): PCE prototype
Mark Richards (SNL, now UIUC): updates to Surfpack interface
Ahmad Rushdi (UT Austin/UC Davis): domain decomposition surrogates, UQ, and optimization
Boyd Schimel (SNL): core developer, optimizer interfaces
Todd Simmermacher (SNL): core developer, parameter studies
Gary Tang (SNL, now Stanford): Sobol indices for PCE
Pam Williams (SNL, now elsewhere): OPT++ DDACE interfaces
Steve Wojtkiewicz (SNL, now University of Minnesota): core developer of original DAKOTA/UQ
Interfaces and Applications
Yann Collette (Hutchinson, France): Scilab Interfaces
Yann Chapalain (Hutchinson, France): Scilab Interfaces
Hongman Kim (Phoenix Integration, Inc.): ModelCenter API
Dave Outka (SNL): QTran examples
Lee Peterson (NASA JPL): improvements to Matlab interface
Vince Romero (SNL): application interfaces / examples, including QTran
Bart van Bloemen Waanders (SNL): application interfaces / examples
Walt Witkowski (SNL)
Building, Testing, and Porting
Mario Alleva (SNL, now elsewhere): core developer; test/support infrastructure
Shane Brown (SNL, now KAPL): core developer; test/support infrastructure
Kayla Coleman (NCSU): Docker container to run Dakota with QUESO; DakotaQUESO
Joe Frye (SNL): software engineering and project management infrastructure
Karen Haskell (SNL): testing and deployment infrastructure
Bill Hoffman (Kitware): CMake build system for MSVC
Eric Phipps (SNL): CMake build system enhancements
Ronald Rhea (SNL): building and porting
Craig Shierling (SNL): utilities, build harness
Zack Galbreath (SNL, Kitware): CMake build system enhancements
Dena Vigil (SNL): test/support infrastructure, CMake build system, web
Third-party Library Credits
Contributors to third-party libraries used by Dakota who also advised on their integration in Dakota. See Packages for a full list of Dakota TPLs.
Acro/Coliny: Bill Hart, John Siirola, Jean-Paul Watson (SNL); Jonathan Eckstein (Rutgers University)
APPSPACK/HOPSPACK: Tammy Kolda (SNL), Virginia Torczon (College of William and Mary), Todd Plantenga (SNL)
FSUDace: John Burkhardt (Virginia Tech.)
DDACE: Patty Hough (SNL), Monica Martinez-Canales (SNL, now Intel Corporation)
JEGA: John Eddy (SNL)
LHS: Laura Swiler, Greg Wyss (SNL)
MARS: Jim McEnerney (LLNL)
NCSUOpt (batch interface): Josh Griffin (SNL, now SAS Institute, Inc.)
OPT++: Patty Hough, Pam Williams (SNL)
Surfpack: Keith Dalbey (SNL), Shane Brown (SNL, now KAPL), Eric Cyr (SNL), Mike Eldred (SNL), Tony Giunta (SNL), Mark Richards (SNL, now UIUC)
pyprepro: Justin Winokur (SNL)
Other Contributors
Lara Bauman: product manager, GUI advisor
Ken Hu (SNL): product manager, documentation
Jim Stewart (SNL): Business management
Greg Weirs (SNL): Application deployment and consulting
George Orient (SNL): product manager, GUI advisor