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Wolfgang Banzhaf
Picture taken at URP Ceremony, 2010

Brief Professional Biography

Wolfgang Banzhaf is a professor in the Department of Computer Science of Memorial University of Newfoundland He served as head of department there from 2003 to 2009 and is acting head of department since September 1, 2012.

Prof. Banzhaf received a "Diplom in Physik" degree in Physics (equivalent to a M.Sc.) from the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich. He received his Dr.rer.nat (PhD) from the Department of Physics of the Technische Hochschule Karlsruhe, now Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). Prof. Banzhaf was postdoctoral research associate at the 1. Institute of Theoretical Physics of the University of Stuttgart, Visiting and Senior Researcher at the Central Research Lab, now the Advanced Technology R&D Center of Mitsubishi Electric Corporation in Japan and at Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs (MERL) in Cambridge, MA, USA. From 1993 to 2003 he was Associate Professor for Applied Computer Science in the Department of Computer Science of the Technical University of Dortmund.

Prof. Banzhaf's 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 also of very much interest to him. Recently he has become more involved with network research as it applies to natural and man-made systems.

Prof. Banzhaf serves as Chair of the Executive Committee of ACM-SIGEVO, the Special Interest Group for Evolutionary Computation of the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM). He is member of the Executive Board of the International Society for Artificial Life (ISAL) and serves on the board of two private companies. He has founded the scholarly journal "Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines", published quarterly by Springer and is editorial board member of a number of journals: Artificial Life, Intl. Journal of Natural Computing Research, Applied Soft Computing, Theory in Bioscience, Computational Intelligence. He is lead author of the first textbook on Genetic Programming (see below), and has co-founded the European Conference series on Genetic Programming.

Prof. Banzhaf is a Senior Fellow of the former International Society for Genetic and Evolutionary Computation (ISGEC) and has received the EvoStar Award for Outstanding Achievements in Evolutionary Computation in Europe. In 2010 he has been appointed University Research Professor at Memorial University for sustained contributions to research, the highest honour Memorial University bestows on an academic.

Contact

Department of Computer Science
Memorial University of Newfoundland
St. John's, NL, A1B 3X5
CANADA
Tel: +1 (709) 864-2413
Fax: +1 (709) 864-2009
Email (blanks against robots): Mylastname at cs. mun. ca

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You can find me on Google Scholar here and on Microsoft Academic Search here.
Here is my standing within the institution. According to Google and according to Microsoft.
You can find me on Prof. Palsberg's list of the 600 most highly cited computer scientists (using the h-index on Google Scholar) world-wide.
See our last book (2007): Linear Genetic Programming, a monograph by Brameier and Banzhaf, published by Springer.
See also at Amazon.
Here is our classic book (1998) : Genetic Programming - An Introduction, a textbook by Banzhaf, Nordin, Keller and Francone, published originally by Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, San Francisco, which became part of Acadmic Press, Reading, which itself later became part of Elsevier Science.
See also at Amazon.
Here is a Call for Papers for a Special Issue of the journal Algorithms, ISSN 1999-4893. I am co-editing this issue on "Novel EC Algorithms for Scheduling and Timetabling" with Nelishia Pillay, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
Call for Papers 2013 EvoStar Conferences April 3-5, 2013, Vienna, Austria
Call for Papers 16th EuroGP Conference April 3-5, 2013, Vienna, Austria
Call for Papers 11th EvoBio Conference April 3-5, 2013, Vienna, Austria
Call for Papers European Conference on the Applications of Evolutionary Computation April 3-5, 2013, Vienna, Austria
Call for Papers 15th Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2012) July, 6-10, 2013, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Call for Papers 12th European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL 2013) September, 2 - 6, 2013, Taormina, Italy
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