MEDVET, Eric

Eric Medvet, PhD Contact: emedvet@units.it, eric.medvet@gmail.com; https://medvet.inginf.units.it; +39 040 558 7131 Associate professor in Computer Engineering at DIA (Department of Engineering and Architecture), University of Trieste. Research profile I am the head of the Evolutionary Robotics and Artificial Life Lab and the co-head of the Machine Learning Lab, both located at my department. I do research on Evolutionary Computation, Machine Learning, and their application to computer- and engineering-related topics. In the last years, I focused on Grammatical Evolution, a form of Genetic Programming, and on Evolutionary Robotics, in the context of Artificial Life and multi-agent systems. The list of publications is available at https://medvet.inginf.units.it/publications/. Google scholar profile: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Te6XLnAAAAAJ. Awards Best paper award at EuroGP 2018 conference (part of the EvoStar conference) for the paper “On the Automatic Design of a Representation for Grammar-based Genetic Programming” Best poster award at ICPRAM 2020 conference for the paper “Mosaic Images Segmentation using U-Net” Silver medal at the Human-Competitive Results Produced by Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Awards (Humies 2016) with the proposal “Can a machine replace humans in building regular expressions? A case study”, along with 3 other team members. Projects Recipient of the Google Faculty Research Award 2020, for an amount of 25k$ to fund 1 year of PhD scholarship, with the project “ReMoSo: representations and learning algorithms for highly reconfigurable modular soft robots” Principal investigator of the project on the “Automatic joint design of traffic rules and controllers for UAVs using Evolutionary Computation” which has been awarded with 35K$ of Amazon Web Services (AWS) credits in the AWS Cloud Credits for Research program in 2018. Participant of the H2020 project “ADAPT: Advanced prediction models for flexible trajectory-based operations”, funded by ERC (European Research Council), started in 2018 by prof. Lorenzo Castelli. Principal investigator of the peer reviewed project “Intelligent User Interfaces for Syntax-based Entity Extraction”, funded by MIUR (Italian Ministry of Education, Universities and Research), FRA 2016. Participant in the peer reviewed project “Assistive Technologies based on Image Processing for People with Visual Impairments”, funded by MIUR (Italian Ministry of Education, Universities and Research), FRA 2014. Participant in the peer reviewed project “Automatic segmentation of mosaics for quantitative analysis and remote enjoyment”, funded by MIUR (Italian Ministry of Education, Universities and Research), FRA 2012. Organization, editorial, reviewing activities Organizer and/or (co-)chair: publication chair of the European Conference on Genetic Programming (EuroGP 2020 and 2021); co-chair of the organizing committee of the DidaMatica 2020 national conference on Teaching and Computer Science (Didattica and Informatica); co-chair of the Workshop on Industrial Computational Applications (WICA) at ICCSA 2017; co-chair of the Special Session on Information and communication technologies for persons with disabilities (ICT4D) at EAI Goodtechs 2016; co-chair of the Special Session on Bio-medical data analysis and diagnosis tools at ISISPA 2013. Member of the program committee: Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference - Evolutionary Machine Learning track (EML) (GECCO 2018, 2019, 2020, and 2021); European Conference on Genetic Programming (EuroGP 2018, 2019, 2020, and 2021); Workshop on Evolutionary and Population-based Optimization at the International Conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence (WEPO - AIxIA 2020); International Conference on the Simulation of Adaptive Behavior (SAB 2020); EPIA Conference on Artificial Intelligence - Artificial Life and Evolutionary Algorithms (ALEA) track (EPIA 2019); Special Session on Serious Games to Improve Quality of Life at the EAI International Conference on Smart Objects and Technologies for Social Good (Goodtechs 2017, 2018, and 2019); ACM SIGCOMM 2018 Workshop on Big Data Analytics and Machine Learning for Data Communication Networks (Big-DAMA 2018); International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI 2018, 2019 and 2020); Biennial International Conference on Artificial Evolution (EA-2017); ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence, Mining and Semantics (WIMS 2017); FORmal methods for Security Engineering (ForSE 2017, 2018, 2019). Editor or guest editor: guest editor of the special issue “Neural Networks Design through Neuroevolution: Theoretical and Applied Contributions on Complexity” of the Hindawi Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience journal (2020) Reviewer for international conferences: IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems; International Conference on Fuzzy Systems and Data Mining; International Symposium on Image and Signal Processing and Analysis; IEEE Conference on Decision and Control; International Conference of Artificial Intelligence and Applications. Reviewer for international journals: Springer Nature Computer Science; PLOS One; MIT Press Evolutionary Computation Journal; IEEE Access; Applied Stochastic Models in Business and Industry; Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines; Information Sciences; IEEE Control Systems Letters (L-CSS); Network and Computer Applications; Association for Information Science and Technology; ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems; Computers and Security; IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing; Systems and Software; Marine Science and Technology; Applied Soft Computing; Computational Intelligence; Learned Publishing; Sustainability. Societies and groups ACM and ACM Special Interest Group on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation. COST Action CA15140: Improving Applicability of Nature-Inspired Optimisation by Joining Theory and Practice (ImAppNIO). SPECIES: the Society for the Promotion of Evolutionary Computation in Europe and its Surroundings. Laboratorio Nazionale di Artificial Intelligence and Intelligent Systems, CINI (Consorzio Interuniversitario Nazionale per l’Informatica), University of Trieste node.

Eric Medvet, PhD Contact: emedvet@units.it, eric.medvet@gmail.com; https://medvet.inginf.units.it; +39 040 558 7131 Associate professor in Computer Engineering at DIA (Department of Engineering and Architecture), University of Trieste. Research profile I am the head of the Evolutionary Robotics and Artificial Life Lab and the co-head of the Machine Learning Lab, both located at my department. I do research on Evolutionary Computation, Machine Learning, and their application to computer- and engineering-related topics. In the last years, I focused on Grammatical Evolution, a form of Genetic Programming, and on Evolutionary Robotics, in the context of Artificial Life and multi-agent systems. The list of publications is available at https://medvet.inginf.units.it/publications/. Google scholar profile: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Te6XLnAAAAAJ. Awards Best paper award at EuroGP 2018 conference (part of the EvoStar conference) for the paper “On the Automatic Design of a Representation for Grammar-based Genetic Programming” Best poster award at ICPRAM 2020 conference for the paper “Mosaic Images Segmentation using U-Net” Silver medal at the Human-Competitive Results Produced by Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Awards (Humies 2016) with the proposal “Can a machine replace humans in building regular expressions? A case study”, along with 3 other team members. Projects Recipient of the Google Faculty Research Award 2020, for an amount of 25k$ to fund 1 year of PhD scholarship, with the project “ReMoSo: representations and learning algorithms for highly reconfigurable modular soft robots” Principal investigator of the project on the “Automatic joint design of traffic rules and controllers for UAVs using Evolutionary Computation” which has been awarded with 35K$ of Amazon Web Services (AWS) credits in the AWS Cloud Credits for Research program in 2018. Participant of the H2020 project “ADAPT: Advanced prediction models for flexible trajectory-based operations”, funded by ERC (European Research Council), started in 2018 by prof. Lorenzo Castelli. Principal investigator of the peer reviewed project “Intelligent User Interfaces for Syntax-based Entity Extraction”, funded by MIUR (Italian Ministry of Education, Universities and Research), FRA 2016. Participant in the peer reviewed project “Assistive Technologies based on Image Processing for People with Visual Impairments”, funded by MIUR (Italian Ministry of Education, Universities and Research), FRA 2014. Participant in the peer reviewed project “Automatic segmentation of mosaics for quantitative analysis and remote enjoyment”, funded by MIUR (Italian Ministry of Education, Universities and Research), FRA 2012. Organization, editorial, reviewing activities Organizer and/or (co-)chair: publication chair of the European Conference on Genetic Programming (EuroGP 2020 and 2021); co-chair of the organizing committee of the DidaMatica 2020 national conference on Teaching and Computer Science (Didattica and Informatica); co-chair of the Workshop on Industrial Computational Applications (WICA) at ICCSA 2017; co-chair of the Special Session on Information and communication technologies for persons with disabilities (ICT4D) at EAI Goodtechs 2016; co-chair of the Special Session on Bio-medical data analysis and diagnosis tools at ISISPA 2013. Member of the program committee: Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference - Evolutionary Machine Learning track (EML) (GECCO 2018, 2019, 2020, and 2021); European Conference on Genetic Programming (EuroGP 2018, 2019, 2020, and 2021); Workshop on Evolutionary and Population-based Optimization at the International Conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence (WEPO - AIxIA 2020); International Conference on the Simulation of Adaptive Behavior (SAB 2020); EPIA Conference on Artificial Intelligence - Artificial Life and Evolutionary Algorithms (ALEA) track (EPIA 2019); Special Session on Serious Games to Improve Quality of Life at the EAI International Conference on Smart Objects and Technologies for Social Good (Goodtechs 2017, 2018, and 2019); ACM SIGCOMM 2018 Workshop on Big Data Analytics and Machine Learning for Data Communication Networks (Big-DAMA 2018); International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI 2018, 2019 and 2020); Biennial International Conference on Artificial Evolution (EA-2017); ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence, Mining and Semantics (WIMS 2017); FORmal methods for Security Engineering (ForSE 2017, 2018, 2019). Editor or guest editor: guest editor of the special issue “Neural Networks Design through Neuroevolution: Theoretical and Applied Contributions on Complexity” of the Hindawi Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience journal (2020) Reviewer for international conferences: IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems; International Conference on Fuzzy Systems and Data Mining; International Symposium on Image and Signal Processing and Analysis; IEEE Conference on Decision and Control; International Conference of Artificial Intelligence and Applications. Reviewer for international journals: Springer Nature Computer Science; PLOS One; MIT Press Evolutionary Computation Journal; IEEE Access; Applied Stochastic Models in Business and Industry; Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines; Information Sciences; IEEE Control Systems Letters (L-CSS); Network and Computer Applications; Association for Information Science and Technology; ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems; Computers and Security; IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing; Systems and Software; Marine Science and Technology; Applied Soft Computing; Computational Intelligence; Learned Publishing; Sustainability. Societies and groups ACM and ACM Special Interest Group on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation. COST Action CA15140: Improving Applicability of Nature-Inspired Optimisation by Joining Theory and Practice (ImAppNIO). SPECIES: the Society for the Promotion of Evolutionary Computation in Europe and its Surroundings. Laboratorio Nazionale di Artificial Intelligence and Intelligent Systems, CINI (Consorzio Interuniversitario Nazionale per l’Informatica), University of Trieste node.