Wolfgang Banzhaf

Contact Information

Engineering Bldg.
428 S Shaw Ln
Room: 3267
East Lansing , MI 48824

(517) 353-6963

banzhafw@msu.edu

Faculty Website

John R Koza Endowed Chair In Genetic Programming

Computer Science and Engineering

Biography

Wolfgang Banzhaf is the John R. Koza Chair for Genetic Programming and a professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering. His research interests are in the field of bio-inspired computing, notably evolutionary computation and complex adaptive systems. Studies of self-organization and the field of artificial life are of interest to him. He recently become more involved with network research as it applies to natural and man-made systems.

Education

  • Dr.rer.nat (Ph.D.), Department of Physics of the Technische Hochschule Karlsruhe, now Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
  • Diplom in Physik (M.Sc), Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich

Research Interests

  • Bio-Inspired Computing
  • Notably Evolutionary Computation
  • Complex Adaptive Systems

Research Lab

Research Website

Awards

  • 2023: ACM SIGEVO Outstanding Contributions Award in Evolutionary Computation
  • 2022: ISAL Lifetime Achievement Award
  • 2019: Best Paper Award, Evolutionary Machine Learning track, GECCO 2019, Prague, Czech Republic, together with Zhichao Lu (first author) et al.
  • 2015: Best Paper Award, Brazilian Conference on Intelligent Systems BRACIS 2015, together with Vinicius de Melo (first author)
  • 2011: Best paper award, Genetic Programming Track, GECCO 2011, Dublin, Ireland, together with Shelly Wu (first author)
  • 2010: University Research Professorship at Memorial University
  • 2010: Best paper award, Combinatorial Optimization Track, GECCO 2010, Portland, OR, together with Shelly Wu (first author)
  • 2007: EvoStar Award for Outstanding Contributions to the field of Evolutionary Computation in Europe
  • 2003: "Lehrer Lempel Preis der Studenten" for best undergrad course in term, Department of Computer Science, University of Dortmund, together with Peter Marwedel
  • 2002: "Lehrer Lempel Preis der Studenten" for best undergrad course in term, Department of Computer Science, University of Dortmund, together with Peter Marwedel