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Rod Brooks (Robust AI)

Rod Brooks is the co-Founder and Chief Technical Officer of Robust.AI. He previously served as the Panasonic Professor of Robotics at MIT and the Director of the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.


Steve Frank (UC Irvine)

Steve Frank is Donald Bren Professor of Evolutionary Biology and UCI Distinguished Professor at the University of California, Irvine. He has been awarded the Theodosius Dobzhansky Prize from the Society for the Study of Evolution and the Young Investigator Prize from American Society of Naturalists.


Ken Stanley (OpenAI)

Ken Stanley is the Open-endedness Team Leader at OpenAI. He previously served as Charles Millican Professor of Computer Science at The University of Central Florida.


Josh Bongard (University of Vermont)

Josh Bongard is the Veinott Professor of Computer Science at the University of Vermont and Director of the Morphology, Evolution & Cognition Laboratory. He previously served as the Director of the Vermont Advanced Computing Core.


Mike Lynch (Arizona State University)

Mike Lynch is a professor at Arizona State University and Director of ASU's Biodesign Center for Mechanisms of Evolution. He previously served as the President of the Genetics Society of America, the Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution, the Society for the Study of Evolution, and the American Genetic Association.


Darrell Whitley (Colorado State University)

Darrell Whitley is a Professor at Colorado State University. He previously served as the Chair of the Governing Board of the International Society for Genetic Algorithms and as the Editor-in-Chief of the journal Evolutionary Computation.


David Ha (Google Brain)

David Ha is a Research Scientist at Google Brain. He previously served as a Managing Director at Goldman Sachs and studied math and engineering at the University of Toronto.


David Krakauer (Santa Fe Institute)

David Krakauer is President and William H. Miller Professor of Complex Systems at the Santa Fe Institute. He previously served as the founding Director of the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery and as the co-Director of the Center for Complexity and Collective Computation at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.


Una-May O'Reilly (MIT)

Una-May O'Reilly is the Founder and Principal Research Scientist of the AnyScale Learing for All (ALFA) Group at MIT-CSAIL. She is a Fellow and former Vice President of the Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation and has chaired the annual Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO).

Discussants

John Miller, Carnegie Mellon University

Michael Hochberg, University of Montpellier

Aleksandra Faust, Google Brain