Dr. Gary B. Fogel, Chief Executive Officer: Dr. Fogel joined Natural Selection, Inc. in 1998 after completing the Ph.D. in biology from the University of California at Los Angeles with a focus on the evolution and variability of histone proteins. While at UCLA, Dr. Fogel was a Fellow of the Center for the Study of Evolution and the Origin of Life and earned several teaching and research awards. Dr. Fogel's current research interests focus on the application of computational intelligence methods to problems in the biomedical sciences. He is currently investigating the use of these approaches for gene expression analysis, gene recognition, drug activity/toxicity prediction, structure analysis and similarity, sequence alignment, and biomedical pattern recognition. Dr. Fogel leads Natural Selection, Inc.'s efforts in chem- and bioinformatics.
Dr. Fogel is a senior member of the IEEE, member of Sigma Xi and the International Society for the Study of the Origin of Life. Dr. Fogel currently serves as an associate editor for IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine, and BioSystems, and is an editorial advisory board member of Ecological Informatics. He co-edited a volume on Evolutionary Computation in Bioinformatics, published in 2003 (Morgan Kaufmann) and has co-edited Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics, published in 2008 (IEEE Press). Dr. Fogel served as technical co-chair for the 2001 and 2006 Congresses on Evolutionary Computation, program chair for the 2004 Congress on Evolutionary Computation, and as general chair for the 2004 and 2005 IEEE Symposia on Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology. He currently serves as publicity chair for the 2009 IEEE CIBCB meeting to be held in Nashville, Tennessee (www.cibcb.org) and also serves as the general chair for the 2010 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (www.wcci2010.org) to be held in Barcelona, Spain as part of the IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence.
Dr. Fogel has recently been re-elected to serve a second term on the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Administrative Committee (AdCom) for the period 2007-2009.
Dr. Fogel's responsibilities as CEO are to provide leadership towards maintaining Natural Selection, Inc.'s excellence in real-world applications of computational intelligence methods. Dr. Fogel assists in developing and advancing a company strategic plan for its mission and objectives and promotes revenue, profitability, and growth. Dr. Fogel oversees business operations to ensure production efficiency, quality, service, and cost-effective management of resources. He assists in developing and authorizing company operational procedures, policies, and standards. These activities are coordinated with the company President, Mr. William Porto.
Selected
Publications Fogel GB, Corne DW, Pan Y (eds.) (2008) Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics, Wiley-IEEE Press. Fogel GB, Lamers S, McGrath M, Salemi M (2008) "Prediction of R5, X4, and R5X4 HIV-1 Co-receptor Usage with Evolved Neural Networks," IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics. Apr.-Jun. Vol. 5(2), pp. 291-300. Fogel GB (2008) "Computational Intelligence Approaches for Pattern Discovery in Biological Systems," Briefings in Bioinformatics, (invited paper as part of a special issue on "Critical Technologies in Bioinformatics"), doi: 10.1093/bib/bbn021 link to article Davis N, Biddlecom N, Hecht D, Fogel GB (2008) "On the Relationship Between GC Content and the Number of Predicted MicroRNA Binding Sites by MicroInspector," Computational Biology and Chemistry, 2008 Mar 10 [Epub ahead of print] Hecht D, Cheung M, and Fogel GB (2008) "QSAR Using Evolved Neural Networks for the Inhibition of Mutant PfDHFR by Pyrimethamine Derivatives," BioSystems, Vol. 92(1), pp. 10-15. Fogel GB, Cheung M, Pittman E, Hecht D (2008) "Modeling the Inhibition of Quadruple Mutant Plasmodium falciparum Dihydrofolate Reductase by Pyrimethamine Derivatives," J. Comput. Aided. Mol. Des. Vol. 22 (1), pp. 29-38. Fogel GB, Cheung M, Pittman E, Hecht D (2008) "In silico Screening Against Wild-type and Mutant Plasmodium falciparum Dihydrofolate Reductase," J. Mol. Graph. Model. Vol. 26(7), pp. 1145-1152. Fogel GB, Weekes DG, Varga G, Dow ER, Harlow HB, Onyia JE, and Su C (2004) "Discovery of Sequence Motifs Related to Coexpression of Genes Using Evolutionary Computation," Nucleic Acids Research, Vol. 32:13, pp. 3826-3835. (.pdf) Fogel GB and Corne DW (2003) Evolutionary Computation in Bioinformatics, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers. For more information please see the NSI Publications Library or email Dr. Fogel at: gfogel [at] natural-selection [dot] com