IlliGAL Blogging

Genetic algorithms researcher and IlliGAL alumnus, Jian-Hung Chen, recently received top honors in Taiwan's computer science PhD dissertation competition. His thesis, entitled Theory and Applications of Efficient Multi-Objective Evolutionary Algorithms (CS, Feng Chia University, 2004) was ranked number one among all CS dissertations in a national competition held under the auspices of the Institute of Information & Computing Machinery (IICM). The work is a delightful amalgam of theory and practice. Chen takes the methodology of The Design of Innovation and applies it to understanding the approximate complexity of multiobjective evolutionary algorithms (MOEAs). Thereafter, he successfully applies carefully designed MOEAs to problems in production planning and design of nearest-neighbor classifiers. The dissertation concludes with novel theory and empirical work that carry over the method of fitness inheritance to MOEAs. Please join me in congratulating JH for his outstanding work. Better yet, as he is in the middle of a postdoc/job search, send your job offers to him here.