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BEACON Director Charles Ofria named AAAS Fellow
Congratulations to BEACON’s Director Dr. Charles Ofria, who was recently elected as a fellow in the biological sciences by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). From the MSU press release: Charles Ofria, professor in Department of Computer … Continue reading
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BEACON Researchers at Work: The Encoding Scheme based on Anchors for Scalable Multi-Objective Clustering Algorithms
This BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by Dr. Shuwei Zhu, Prof. Lihong Xu and Prof. Erik D Goodman. BEACON’s Greenhouse research team, led by Prof. Lihong Xu (from Tongji University, China) and Prof. Erik D Goodman, has been … Continue reading
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BEACON Researchers at Work: The “(M-1)+1” Framework of Generalized Pareto Dominance for Evolutionary Many-objective Optimization
This BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by Dr. Shuwei Zhu, Prof. Lihong Xu, Prof. Erik D Goodman and Dr. Zhichao Lu. BEACON’s Greenhouse research team, led by Prof. Lihong Xu (from Tongji University, China) and Prof. Erik D Goodman, … Continue reading
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BEACONites to Compete in 2021 Reach Out Science Slam Communication Challenge
BEACON graduate students Joelyn de Lima, Anna Raschke, Miles Roberts, and Katherine Skocelas have been named semifinalists in the 2021 Reach Out Science Slam Communication Challenge jointly sponsored by the National Science Foundation and the Museum of Science, Boston. They each … Continue reading
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BEACON wins MSU Excellence in Diversity Award
Last month, Michigan State University announced this year’s winners of the annual Excellence in Diversity Awards. BEACON is very proud to receive the Team Award for Sustained Efforts towards Excellence in Diversity! We owe much of our success to … Continue reading
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Extending Genetic Programming for use in Big Data Analytics: BEACON alum Amir Gandomi
Former BEACON Distinguished Postdoc Amir H. Gandomi has received a 2021 Discovery Early Career Researcher Award from the Australian Research Council. Amir was a BEACON postdoc from 2015-2017, and is now a Professor of Data Science at University of Technology Sydney in … Continue reading
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Evolutionary AI site with expert podcasts and a COVID-19 intervention demo
The Evolutionary AI research group at Sentient has moved to Cognizant Technology Solutions. The group includes several current and past BEACONites, including Risto Miikkulainen, Elliot Meyerson, Jason Liang, and Santiago Gonzalez, and past interns Aditya Rawal and Khaled Talukder. The group … Continue reading
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Engaging Galápagos Students and Educators in Evolutionary Activities
This blog post is by Madison Bovee, Alexa Warwick, John G. Phillips, Brant G. Miller, and Christine Parent. Evolutionary research is conducted across the globe, yet no location may be as emblematic as the Galápagos Islands (Figure 1). Made famous by … Continue reading
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How Claire from the BA test kitchen made me rethink our scientific role models
This blog post is by MSU faculty member Arend Hintze. I love making stuff, let it be wood crafting or building cosplay Halloween costumes for my kids. However, I also like to do things the right way. Consequently, I have … Continue reading
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Goodman Extends BEACON’s Collaborations in China
This post is by BEACON’s Executive Director Erik Goodman. On Oct. 19, 2019, I left East Lansing for China, with stops in Shantou, Guangzhou and Shanghai. I received a warm and wonderful reception everywhere I went, in spite of tariffs, … Continue reading
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