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Risto Miikkulainen

Professor
Phone: 
(512) 471-9571
Email: 
risto [at] cs [dot] utexas [dot] edu
Homepage: 
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~risto/
Research: 

Miikkulainen's research focuses on biologically-inspired computation such as neural networks and evolutionary computation.

UTCS Research Areas: 
Artificial Intelligence
Data Mining, Machine Learning, and Natural Computation
Selected Awards & Honors: 
  • Best Paper Award at the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO) in 2008, 2007, 2005, 2005, 2003, and 2002 (with V. Valsalam, J. Reisinger, V. Valsalam, Y. F. Sit, F. Gomez, and K. O. Stanley); at the IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Games (CIG) in 2009, 2006 and 2005 (with B. Bryant, K. O. Stanley, and Jacob Schrum).
Selected Publications: 
  • Hoffman, R.E., Grasemann, U., Gueorguieva, R., Quinlan, D., Lane, D., and Miikkulainen, R.  (in press).  Using Computational Patients to Evaluate Illness Mechanisms in Schizophrenia. Biological Psychiatry.
  • Kohl, N. and Miikkulainen, R. (2009). Evolving Neural Networks for Strategic Decision-Making Problems. Neural Networks 22:326--337.
  • Sit, Y. F. and Miikkulainen, R. (2009). Computational Predictions on the Receptive Fields and Organization of V2 for Shape Processing. Neural Computation 21:762-785.
  • Gomez, F., Schmidhuber, J., and Miikkulainen, R. (2008) Accelerated Neural Evolution through Cooperatively Coevolved Synapses. Journal of Machine Learning Research, 9:937-965.
  • Silberman, Y., Bentin, S., and Miikkulainen, R. (2007). Semantic Boost on Episodic Associations: An Empirically Based Computational Model. Cognitive Science, 31:645-671.
  • Stanley, K., Bryant, B., and Miikkulainen, R. (2005). The NERO Real-time Video Game. IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, 9:653-668.
  • Miikkulainen, R., Bednar, J. A., Choe, Y., and Sirosh, J. (2005). Computational Maps in the Visual Cortex. New York: Springer. 
  • Stanley, K. and Miikkulainen, R. (2004). Competitive Coevolution through Evolutionary Complexification. Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, 21:63-100.
  • Sirosh, J., Miikkulainen, R., and Choe, Y. (editors) (1996). Lateral Interactions in the Cortex: Structure and Function. The UTCS Neural Networks Research Group, Austin, TX. Electronic book, ISBN 0-9647060-0-8.
  • Miikkulainen, R. (1993).  Subsymbolic Natural Language Processing: An Integrated Model of Scripts, Lexicon, and Memory.  Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Books: 
Professional Activities: 
  • Board of Governors, International Neural Network Society.
  • Member of IEEE Technical Committees on Computational Intelligence in Games; Autonomous Mental Development; Neural Networks. 
  • Consultant, 21st Century Technologies, Inc., Austin; Lange Fund Management, LLC, Los Angeles; Catalis Healthcare / Recare Inc., Austin; Center of Excellence in Adaptive Informatics Research, Helsinki University of Technology.
  • Program (Co-) Chair, Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC-2011); the sixth IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence and Games (CIG-2010; Workshop on Self-Organizing Maps (WSOM-2009); The Fourth IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Games (CIG-2008).
  • Action Editor, Neural Networks; IEEE Transactions on Computational Intelligence and AI in Games; IEEE Transactions on Autonomous Mental Development; Machine Learning Journal; Cognitive Systems Research.
  • Editorial Board Member, Evolutionary Intelligence; Encyclopedia of Machine Learning; Neural Processing Letters.

Risto Miikkulainen