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Announcements Scalable Optimization via Probabilistic Modeling: From Algorithms to Applications Click this link to access more information about this book and find out how to order it. Book's web page can be found here. Missouri Estimation of Distribution Algorithms Laboratory (MEDAL) Click this link to access MEDAL web page. Hierarchical Bayesian Optimization Algorithm: Toward a New Generation of Evolutionary Algorithms Click this link to access more information about this book and find out how to order it. Current positions Associate Professor of Computer Science, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Missouri in St. Louis Director of the Missouri Estimation of Distribution Algorithms Laboratory (MEDAL), University of Missouri in St. Louis Office location 320 CCB (Computer Center Building) Office hours Tuesday and Thursday, 3:00pm-5:30pm, 320 CCB Teaching (Fall 2008) CS 3130 - Design and Analysis of Algorithms TR 5:30pm-6:45pm, 417 Clark Hall CS 5130 - Advanced Data Structures And Algorithms TR 6:55pm-8:10pm, 417 Clark Hall Any students interested in research projects (CS 4880, CS 5880) in evolutionary computation and machine learning should contact me via email. More details on MyGateway (restricted to UMSL). Research interests Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Machine Learning Artificial Intelligence Education Sep 1999 - Oct 2002 Ph.D., Computer Science Dept. of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL Sep 1993 - June 1998 Magister (M.S. equiv.), Computer Science Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia Experience Aug 2008 - present Associate Professor of Computer Science Department of Math and Computer Science, University of Missouri at St. Louis. Aug 2003 - July 2008 Assistant Professor of Computer Science Department of Math and Computer Science, University of Missouri at St. Louis. May 2005 - June 2005 Visiting Researcher Department of Cognitive Psychology, University of Wuerzburg, Germany. Feb 2003 - July 2003 Postdoc Fellow Computational Lab (Colab), Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich, Switzerland. Sep 1999 - Jan 2003 Civil Service for Slovakia Computing Center of the Slovak University of Technology, Bratislava, Slovakia. Aug 1999 - Aug 2002 Graduate Student Laboratory Director Illinois Genetic Algorithms Laboratory, Dept. of General Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Sep 1998 - Aug 2002 Research Assistant Dept. of General Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Aug 1999 - Dec 1999 Teaching Assistant Course: GE-485, D.E. Goldberg, Genetic Algorithms in Search, Optimization, and Machine Learning, Dept. of General Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL. Dec 1997 - Aug 1998 Visiting Researcher Dept. of Mathematics, Slovak University of Technology, Bratislava, Slovakia. Feb 1997 - Aug 1997 Visiting Researcher Adaptive Systems, System Design Institute, German National Center for Information Technology, Sankt Augustin, Germany. Last update: Wed Sep 10 23:48:41 CDT 2008 by Martin Pelikan