David E. Goldberg

Professor
Illinois Genetic Algorithms Laboratory, Director

David E. Goldberg (BSE, 1975, MSE, 1976, PhD, 1983) in Civil Engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor) is Jerry S. Dobrovolny Distinguished Professor of Entrepreneurial Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) and director of the Illinois Genetic Algorithms Laboratory (IlliGAL, http://www-illigal.ge.uiuc.edu/). Between 1976 to 1980 he held a number of positions at Stoner Associates of Carlisle, PA, including Project Engineer and Marketing Manager. Following his doctoral studies he joined the Engineering Mechanics faculty at the University of Alabama (Tuscaloosa) in 1984. In 1990, he moved to the University of Illinois in 1990. Professor Goldberg was a 1985 recipient of a U.S. National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator Award, and in 1995 he was named an Associate of the Center for Advanced Study at UIUC. He is founding chairman of the International Society for Genetic and Evolutionary Computation (http://www.isgec.org/), and his book Genetic Algorithms in Search, Optimization and Machine Learning (Addison-Wesley, 1989) is the fourth most widely cited reference in computer science according to CiteSeer (http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/cs). His research focuses on the design, analysis, and application of genetic algorithms-computer procedures based on the mechanics of natural genetics and selection-and other innovating machines. He has just completed a new monograph, The Design of Innovation (http://www-doi.ge.uiuc.edu/) that shows (1) how to design scalable genetic algorithms and (2) how such algorithms are similar to certain processes of innovation in human beings. Professor Goldberg is Consulting Editor for the Kluwer Series on Genetic Algorithms and Evolutionary Computation. He lives in Champaign, IL with his wife and two sons.

Contact Information
Office: 105 Transportation Building
Mailing Address:
117 Transportation Building MC-238
104 S. Mathews Ave.
Urbana IL 61801
Phone: (217) 333-0897
Fax: (217) 244-5705
e-mail: deg@uiuc.edu

Consulting Contact:
Web site: www.davidegoldberg.com
E-mail: deg@davidegoldberg.com

Research

Professor Goldberg's research centers on the theory and application of genetic algorithms--search procedures based on the mechanics of natural genetics and selection. In particular his work has been concerned with (1) developing an effective design theory for selectorecombinative GAs, GAs that use selection and recombination mechanisms, (2) designing competent GAs, GAs that solve hard problems, quickly, reliably, and accurately, and (3) enhancing the efficiency of such GAs to permit tractable solutions to hard problems. This Illinois methodology is now being carried from bit-string GAs to more complex codings including genetic programming (GP) and learning classifier systems (LCSs).

Published Books

Goldberg, David E. The Design of Innovation: Lessons from and for Competent Genetic Algorithms Boston, MA: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2002. ISBN: 1402070985

Goldberg, David E. Genetic Algorithms in Search, Optimization and Machine Learning
Addison-Wesley Pub. Co. 1989. ISBN: 0201157675 (French and Polish translations in print)

Goldberg, David E. Life Skills and Leadership for Engineers
McGraw Hill College Div. 1995. ISBN: 0070236895

Whitley, Darrell, David E. Goldberg, Erick Cantu-Paz, Lee Spector, Ian Parmee, Hans-Georg Beyer (Eds.). GECCO 2000: Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference. Morgan Kaufmann. 2000. ISBN: 1558607080

Koza, John R., David E. Goldberg and David B. Fogel (Eds.). Genetic Programming 1996 : Proceedings of the First Annual Conference, July 28-31, 1996, Stanford University (Complex Adaptive Systems). MIT. 1996. ISBN: 0262611279

Koza, John,Wolfgang Banzhaf, Kumar Chellapilla, Kalyanmoy Deb, Marco Dorigo, David Fogel, Max Garzon, David Goldberg, Hitoshi Iba, and Rick Riolo (Eds.). Genetic Programming 1998.
Academic Press. Morgan Kaufmann. 1998. ISBN: 1558605487

Professional Affiliations

He is a registered engineer in Alabama and Pennsylvania and is a member of a number of professional organizations, including ACM, ASCE, ASEE, ASME, Chi Epsilon, and Tau Beta Pi. He is past chairman of the International Society for Genetic Algorithms (ISGA) and was founding chairman of the International Society for Genetic and Evolutionary Computation (ISGEC, www.isgec.org).  He chaired the first Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-99) and continues to serve on the conference business committee.  He is an associate editor for the journal Information Sciences and is on the editorial boards of a number of journals including Evolutionary Computation, and Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines.

Honors and Awards

• Dean's List 7 of 7 semesters, University of Michigan, 1971-1975
• Chi Epsilon, University of Michigan, 1975
• Outstanding Undergraduate in Civil Engineering, University of Michigan, 1975
• First Year Rackham Fellowship, University of Michigan, 1975-1976
• Office of Energy Research Fellowship, University of Michigan, 1981-1982
• Rackham Pre-doctoral Fellowship, University of Michigan, 1982-1983
• NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award, 1985-1990
• Prater Exchange Professor, University of Alabama and National Taiwan University, 1986
• Associate, Center for Advanced Studies, University of Illinois, 1995-1996
• Gambrinus Fellowship, Dortmund University, 1997
• Capstone Engineering Society Outstanding Research Award, University of Alabama, 1989-1990
• Distinguished Visiting Professor, ITESM, Monterey, Mexico, 1990
• Wickenden Award (best paper), American Society for Engineering Education, 1996
• Honorary Co-Chair (with Lotfi Zadeh and Gail Carpenter), International Symposium on Computational Intelligence, Kosice, Slovakia, 2000
• Honorary Chairman, 6th Online World Conference on Soft Computing in Industrial Applications (WSC6), 2001
• MPP Best Paper, GECCO-2002, with Alex Kosorukoff, 2002
• Professor Goldberg is widely in demand as a speaker and has given over 50 invited keynote talks and tutorials.

Publications

Professor Goldberg has published over 260 publications, many of which are available on the IlliGAL web site.

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