Dr. David B. Fogel, Chief Executive Officer. Dr. Fogel’s experience includes over 20 years of applying computational intelligence methods and statistical experimental design to real-world problems in industry, medicine, and defense. Prior to joining Natural Selection, Inc. in 1993, he was a Systems Analyst for Titan Systems, Inc. (1984-1988), and a Senior Principal Engineer at ORINCON Corporation (1988-1993). He received the Ph.D. in engineering sciences from the University of California at San Diego in 1992, and has subsequently taught undergraduate and graduate courses in evolutionary computation, stochastic processes, and statistical process control.
Dr. Fogel has over 200 publications in the technical literature, the majority treating the science and application of evolutionary computation. He is the author of six books, including Blondie24: Playing at the Edge of AI, 2002 , Evolutionary Computation: Toward a New Philosophy of Machine Intelligence (third edition), IEEE Press, 2006, How to Solve It: Modern Heuristics (second edition, co-authored by Professor Zbigniew Michalewicz of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte), Springer, 2005, and Evolutionary Computation: Principles and Practice for Signal Processing (SPIE, 2000) as well as the editor of Evolutionary Computation: The Fossil Record, IEEE Press, 1998, and co-editor-in-chief of the Handbook of Evolutionary Computation, Oxford University Press, 1997.
Dr. Fogel served as the founding editor-in-chief of the IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation (1996-2002), which has a circulation of several thousand IEEE members and distribution in libraries internationally. He was the founding president of the Evolutionary Programming Society (1991-1993) and was elected a Fellow of the IEEE in 1999. He also serves as the editor-in-chief of BioSystems, is on the editorial boards of several other technical journals, and is Vice President of Membership Activities for the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society. He was elected President-Elect of the society in 2006 and will become President in 2008.
Dr. Fogel served as the general chairman for the 2002 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence, held in Honolulu, Hawaii, May 12-17, 2002, and is general chairman for the 2007 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence in Honolulu, Hawaii, April 1-5, 2007.
Dr. Fogel has received several honors and awards, including the 2002 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 most recently the 2004 IEEE Kiyo Tomiyasu Technical Field Award.
Selected Publications
Fogel DB, Hays TJ, and Johnson DR (2006) “A Platform for Evolving Intelligently Interactive Adversaries,” BioSystems, Vol. 85, pp. 72-83.
Fogel DB, Hays TJ, Hahn SL, and Quon J (2004) “A Self-Learning Evolutionary Chess Program,” Proceedings of the IEEE, Vol. 92:12, pp. 1947-1954.
Chellapilla K and Fogel DB (1999) "Evolution, Neural Networks, Games, and Intelligence," Proceedings of the IEEE, September, pp. 1471-1496.
Fogel DB, Chellapilla K, and Angeline PJ (1999) "Inductive Reasoning and Bounded Rationality Reconsidered," IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, Vol. 3:2, pp. 142-146.
Fogel DB, Wasson EC, and Boughton EM (1995) "Evolving Neural Networks for Detecting Breast Cancer," Cancer Letters, Vol. 96, pp. 49-53.
BioSystems: Special Issue on the Prisoner's Dilemma, Vol. 37:1-2, 1996. (guest editor)
For more information please see the NSI Publications Library or email Dr. Fogel at dfogel@natural-selection.com