Frontiers of Evolutionary Computation - Speakers and Discussants
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Speakers
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. His work addresses subjects such as robotics, artificial intelligence, and artificial life.
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. His current research concerns the history of microbial life, the evolution of regulatory control, as well as invariance and common patterns in nature.
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. Ken's work focuses on subjects such as open-endedness in evolution and the evolution of neural networks.
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. His research involves the design, manufacture, and evolution of robots and biological organisms.
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. Michael's work seeks to understand the mechanisms of evolution and the role of mutation, random genetic drift, and recombination in those mechanisms.
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. His research covers fields such as evolutionary computation, search optimization, and machine learning.
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's work focuses on topics like neural networks, neuroevolution, and reinforcement learning.
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 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
Dave Ackley (University of New Mexico)
Dave Ackley is an emeritus professor of Computer Science at the University of New Mexico.
Michael Hochberg (University of Montpellier)
Michael Hochberg is distinguished Research Director at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique at the University of Montpellier.
Aleksandra Faust (Google Brain)
Aleksandra Faust is a Staff Research Scientist and Reinforcement Learning research team co-founder at Google Brain Research.