David B. Fogel is chief executive officer of Natural
Selection, Inc. in La Jolla, CA--a small business focused on
solving difficult problems in industry, medicine, and defense using
evolutionary computation, neural networks, fuzzy systems, and other
methods of computational intelligence. Dr. Fogel's experience
in evolutionary computation spans 20 years and includes
applications in pharmaceutical design, computer-assisted
mammography, data mining, factory scheduling, financial
forecasting, traffic flow optimization, agent-based adaptive combat
systems, and many other areas. Prior to cofounding Natural
Selection, Inc. in 1993, Dr. Fogel was a systems analyst at Titan
Systems, Inc. (1984-1988), and a senior principal engineer at
ORINCON Corporation (1988-1993).
Dr. Fogel received his Ph. D. degree in engineering sciences
(systems science) from the University of California at San Diego
(UCSD) in 1992. He earned an M. S. degree in engineering sciences
(systems science) from UCSD in 1990, and a B. S. in mathematical
sciences (probability and statistics) from the University of
California at Santa Barbara in 1985. He has taught university
courses at the graduate and undergraduate level in stochastic
processes, probability and statistics, and evolutionary
computation. Dr. Fogel is a prolific author in evolutionary
computation, having published over 50 journal papers, as well as
100 conference publications, 20 contributions in book chapters, two
videos, four computer games, and six books--most recently,
Blondie24: Playing at the Edge of AI (Morgan Kaufmann,
2002). In addition, Dr. Fogel is coeditor in chief of the
Handbook of Evolutionary Computation (Oxford, 1997) and was
the founding editor-in-chief of the IEEE Transactions on
Evolutionary Computation (1996-2002). He serves as
editor-in-chief for the journal BioSystems and is a member
of the editorial board of several other international technical
journals.
Dr. Fogel served as a Visiting Fellow of the Australian Defence
Force Academy in November 1997, and is a member of many
professional societies including the American Association for the
Advancement of Science, the American Association for Artificial
Intelligence, Sigma Xi, and the New York Academy of Sciences. He
was the founding president of the Evolutionary Programming Society
in 1991 and is a Fellow of the IEEE, as well as an associate member
of the Center for the Study of Evolution and the Origin of Life
(CSEOL) at the University of California at Los Angeles. Dr. Fogel
is a frequently invited lecturer at international conferences and a
guest for television and radio broadcasts. His honors and awards
include the 2001 Sigma Xi Southwest Region Young Investigator
Award, the 2003 Sigma Xi San Diego Section Distinguished Scientist
Award, the 2003 SPIE Computational Intelligence Pioneer Award, and
the 2004 IEEE Kiyo Tomiyasu Technical Field Award.