Dr. Günter Rudolph

            




Biography

Guenter Rudolph is Professor of Computer Science at Dortmund University of Technology, Germany. He studied computer science at the Universities of Karlsruhe and Dortmund. After receiving the masters degree (Diplom-Informatiker) in Computer Science in 1991 he has been with the Department of Computer Science at the University of Dortmund in the field of parallel computing. From 1994 to 1996 he was scientist at the Informatics Center Dortmund (ICD).  After earning the doctoral degree in computer science at the University of Dortmund in 1996 he returned to the University of Dortmund in 1997 for postdoctoral research in theoretical projects of the Collaborative Research Center on Computational Intelligence (SFB 531). From 2001 to 2005 he served in various positions in product and software development at Parsytec AG, Aachen (Germany), before he was appointed Professor of Computer Science.

He is General Chair of the 10th International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving from Nature (PPSN 2008), associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation and editorial board member of the Journal on Evolutionary Computation (MIT Press) and the International Journal of Computational Intelligence Research. His main research interests are computer-aided applied optimization.