Charles Ofria
Contact Information
Phone:
(517) 884-2562
Email:
ofria@msu.edu
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Professor
Computer Science and Engineering
Biography
Dr. Charles Ofria is director of the Digital Evolution Laboratory and the BEACON Center for the Study of Evolution in Action. He conducts research on evolution in artificial systems and applies the results to solve problems in computer science and to understand evolutionary biology. He developed Avida, a software-based research platform consisting of populations of 'digital organisms used in biological research. His work has been published in Science and Nature and his research has received international media attention in forums such as Discover Magazine, National Geographic, CNN, the BBC, New Scientist, and the New York Times.
Education
- Ph.D., Computation and Neural Systems, California Institute of Technology 1999
- B.S., Computer Science, Pure Math, and Applied Math, State University of New York at Stony Brook 1994
ResearchGate
Selected Publications
- A Vostinar, A Lalejini, C Ofria, E Dolson, MA Moreno (2024) Empirical: A scientific software library for research, education, and public engagement. Journal of Open Source Software 9 (98), 6617
- AJ Ferguson, C Ofria, C Bohm (2024) Predicting the Unpredictable: Using replay experiments to disentangle how evolutionary outcomes are altered by adaptive momentum. ALIFE 2024: Proceedings of the 2024 Artificial Life Conference
- R Boldi, M Briesch, D Sobania, A Lalejini, T Helmuth, F Rothlauf, C Ofria, L Spector (2024) Informed Down-Sampled Lexicase Selection: Identifying productive training cases for efficient problem solving. Evolutionary computation, 1-31
MSU Scholar
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Awards
- Exceptional Service Award, International Society for Artificial Life, 2024
- American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow, 2021
- Team Award for Sustained Efforts toward Excellence in Diversity (to the BEACON Center), 2021
