NCTA 2019 Special Session on Applications (Chair)
CEC 2019 Session on Genetic Algorithms (Chair)
SMC 2012 Session on Soft Computing (Co-Chair)
SMC 2011 Session on Evolving Intelligent Systems (Chair)
CEC 2011 Special Session on Autonomous Agent Learning (Co-Organizer and Co-Chair)
CEC 2011 Special Session on Greedy Selection in Evolutionary Computation (Co-Organizer and Co-Chair)
2011 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC 2011) (Special Sessions Co-Chair)
8th International Symposium on Intelligent Automation and Control (ISIAC 2010) (Chair)
WCCI 2010 Special Session on Computational Intelligence for Learning Morphology and Control (Co-Organizer and Co-Chair)
CEC 2010 Session on Evolutionary Games and Multi-Agent Systems (Chair)
2010 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC 2010) (Special Sessions Co-Chair)
7th International Symposium on Intelligent Automation and Control (ISIAC 2008) (Chair)
12th International Symposium on Robotics and Applications (ISORA 2008) (Co-Chair)
SMC 2007 Session on Control of Uncertain Systems (Chair)
CIRA 2007 Session on Mobile Robots (Chair)
Xpilot-AI Competition for CIG 2007 (Co-Organizer and Chair)
11th International Symposium on Robotics and Applications (ISORA 2006) (Co-Chair)
SMC 2005 Session on Energy for Dynamic Systems (Chair)
SMC 2005 Session on Multi-Agent Systems (Co-Chair)
SMC 2005 Session on Robot Learning (Co-Chair)
ICMA 2005 Session on Control (Co-Chair)
ICMA 2005 Session on Modeling and Simulation (Co-Chair)
IROS 2004 Session on Collective Robotic Systems (Co-Chair)
CEC 2004 Session on Evolutionary Intelligent Agents (Chair)
WAC 2004 Session on Multiple Robots and Cooperation (Chair)
CEC 2003 Session on Evolutionary Design and Evolvable Hardware (Chair)
IROS 2003 Session on Biologically Inspired Robots (Chair)
SCI 2003 Session on Intelligent Robots II (Chair)
WAC 2002 Session on Robot Control (Chair)
SOCO/ISFI 2001 Session on Neural Networks II (Chair)
WSES EC 2001 Session One on Evolutionary Computation (Chair)
WAC 2000 Session on Evolutionary Robotics (Organizer and Chair)
CIRA'99 Session on Multi-Legged Robots (Chair)
GECCO'99 Session on Robotics (Chair)
WAC'98 Session on Learning Cyclic Control/Behavior in Robots
(Organizer and Chair)
WAC'98 Session on Walking Robots (Chair)
2024 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC 2024)
IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC 2020)
12th International Conference on Neural Computation Theory and Applications (NCTA 2020)
12th International Conference on Evolutionary Computation Theory and Applications (ECTA 2020)
11th International Conference on Neural Computation Theory and Applications (NCTA 2019)
11th International Conference on Evolutionary Computation Theory and Applications (ECTA 2019)
2019 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC 2019)
10th International Joint Conference on Computational Intelligence (IJCCI 2018)
9th International Joint Conference on Computational Intelligence (IJCCI 2017)
2016 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC 2016)
7th International Conference on Evolutionary Computation Theory and Applications (ECTA 2015)
EuroAsianPacific Joint Conference on Cognitive Science (EAPCogSci 2015)
2015 IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence and Games (CIG 2015)
2015 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC 2015)
6th International Conference on Evolutionary Computation Theory and Applications (ECTA 2014)
2014 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC 2014)
2014 IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence and Games (CIG 2014)
2013 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC 2013)
2013 IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence and Games (CIG 2013)
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2013)
International Conference on Evolutionary Computation Theory and Applications (ECTA 2013)
2013 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI 2013)
2012 IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence and Games (CIG 2012)
International Conference on Evolutionary Computation Theory and Applications (ECTA 2012)
34th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2012)
World Automation Congress 2012 (WAC 2012)
The 2012 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI 2012)
International Conference on Evolutionary Computation Theory and Applications (ECTA 2011)
2011 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC 2011)
2011 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (IEEE SMC 2011)
33rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2011)
2011 IEEE Workshop on Robotic Intelligence in Informationally Structured Space (RiiSS 2011)
2011 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Data Mining (CIDM 2011)
International Conference on Evolutionary Computation (ICEC 2010)
2010 IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence and Games (CIG 2010)
2010 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC 2010)
2009 IEEE International Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Games (CIG 2009)
International Conference on Evolutionary Computation (ICEC 2009)
2009 IEEE International Conference on Automation and Logistics (ICAL 2009)
2009 IEEE International Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Data Mining (CIDM 2009)
2008 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Games (CIG 2008)
2008 IEEE International Conference on Automation and Logistics (ICAL 2008)
30th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2008)
2008 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI 2008)
5th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management (ISCRAM 2008)
2007 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC 2007)
The 2007 Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC 2007)
2006 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC 2006)
Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2006)
The Twenty-Eighth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2006)
The 2006 Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC 2006)
11th International Symposium on Robotics and Applications (ISORA 2006)
IEEE SMC International Conference on System of Systems Engineering 2006 (SoSE 2006)
The International Conference on Computing, Communications and Control Technologies: CCCT'05
The 2005 Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC 2005)
The A-Life, Evolutionary Robotics and Adaptive Behavior track for GECCO 2005
The 2005 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC 2005)
The International Conference on Computing, Communications and Control Technologies: CCCT'04
The 2004 Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC 2004)
The 2003 Evolutionary Robotics Track for GECCO
The 2003 Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC 2003)
The 2002 Evolutionary Robotics Track for GECCO
The 2002 World Congress on Computational Intelligence
The 2000 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference
The 1999 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference
AutoSoft, International Journal on Intelligent Automation and Soft Computing
IEEE Transactions on Computational Intelligence and AI in Games
IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics
International Journal of Bio-Inspired Computation
IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation
Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines
IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics - Part B
Robotics and Autonomous Systems
IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation
AutoSoft, International Journal on Intelligent Automation and Soft Computing
International Journal of Smart Engineering System Design
International Journal of Modelling and Simulation
The 2014 recipient of the the
Nancy Batson Nisbet Rash Research Award.
DoD / Stevens Institute of Technology Grant/Contract to develop an autonomous sailboat. May-June 2012.
CPATH-2: Collaborative Research: Building a Community to Incorporate Humanitarian Free and
Open Source Software into Undergraduate Computing Education
REU supplement award for the NSF CPATH grant (CCF-0722199), Humanitarian Free and Open Source Software.
World Automation Congress / AutoSoft Lifetime Achievement Award.
CPATH CB: Collaborative: Can Humanitarian Open-Source Software Development Help Revitalize Undergraduate Computing Education?
CTW CS Mellon Foundation Grant. Connecticut College, Trinity, Wesleyan Consortium in Computer Sciences (2005-2009).
Extended Keck/Hughes Visiting Fellows Modules in Data Mining Grant.
NSF Math and Computer Science Scholarship Program.
The W. M. Keck-Howard Hughes Medical Institute Visiting Fellows Modules in Emerging Fields Program Grant
SOCO/ISFI 2001 Best Paper Presented on 29 June 2001 Award.
Named the Jean C. Tempel '65 Assistant Professor in Computer Science.
WAC 98 Best Paper Award for ISORA 98, 1998.
Graduate Traineeship in Robotics and Intelligent Control, 1994 - 1999.
Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper Award, United States Navy, 1992.
Navy Commendation Medal, United States Navy, 1990.
Hexapods Learning to Walk
Evolutionary Computation for Learning Robot Control
Evolutionary Robotics, Cyclic Control, and Colony Agent Learning
Robotics at Connecticut College
Learning Cyclic Control Programs for Hexapod Robots
Evolving Gaits for Hexapod Robots Using Cyclic Genetic Algorithms
Evolutionary Robotics and the Adaptive Systems Lab
Evolving Gaits for Hexapod Robots Using Cyclic Genetic Algorithms
Grants and Awards:
Principal Investigator. $14,987.
National Science Foundation CCF-0939002, 1 Sep 2009 - 31 Aug 2011.
Co-Principal Investigator. $174,494.
National Science Foundation, 15 May 2009 - 31 Aug 2009.
Principal Investigator. $5500.
8th Biannual World Automation Congress, Waikoloa, Hawaii, October 2008.
National Science Foundation CCF-0722199, 1 Sep 2007 - 31 Aug 2009.
Principal Investigator. $70,421.
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. $800,000.
Connecticut College, 2006.
National Science Foundation DUE-0123078, 2002-2006.
Principal Investigator. $385,000.
Modules in Data Mining
Connecticut College, 2003.
Gait Evolution for a Hexapod Robot.
Connecticut College, 2000.
Locomotion Control Cycles Adapted for Disabilities in Hexapod Robots.
National Science Foundation, $21,000 per year.
Invited Talks:
Cyclic Genetic Algorithms, Punctuated Anytime Learning, and Xpilot-AI
Lifetime Achievement Award Plenary Talk
World Automation Congress (WAC 2008)
September 2008. Waikoloa, Hawaii.
Event for the Reunion 2007
Connecticut College
June 2007. New London, Connecticut.
Naval Postgraduate School
September 2005. Monterey, California.
Naval Postgraduate School
September 2005. Monterey, California.
Event for the Presidential Inauguration of Norman Fainstein
Connecticut College
May 2002. New London, Connecticut.
The Endowed Chair Lecture Series
Connecticut College
February 2000. New London, Connecticut.
Michigan Technological University
December 1998. Houghton, Michigan.
Northern Michigan University
December 1998. Marquette, Michigan.
Northern Michigan University
December 1998. Marquette, Michigan.
Legged Robot Control Using Cyclic Genetic Algorithms
International Conference on Intelligent Systems and Semiotics (ISAS'97)
September 1997. Gaithersburg, Maryland.
The Stiquito, Cyclic Genetic Algorithms, and IU Robotics
Naval Postgraduate School.
July 1997. Monterey, California.