Resume
Academic Achievements
- Editorial board member or associate editor for multiple international journals, including: Algorithms (MDPI, since 2020), Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence (Elsevier, since 2022), ACM Transactions on Evolutionary Learning and Optimization (since 2019), INFORMS Journal on Computing (since 2013), etc.
- Associate editor of Evolutionary Computation Journal (MIT Press, 2005–2014); editorial board member since 2015
- Long-standing editorial roles in journals on metaheuristics and AI applications
- Co-founder and steering committee member of the EvoCOP conference series
- Steering committee member of EvoAPPS since 2018
- Co-Chair of the Workshop on Theory and Applications of Metaheuristic Algorithms at EUROCAST 2024
- Local Chair of SoCS 2022 in Vienna
- Program Chair of MIC 2013 in Singapore
- Local Co-Organizer of EvoStar 2013 in Vienna
- General and Local Chair of the Hybrid Metaheuristics Workshop in 2010
- Track Co-Chair at GECCO 2011 in Dublin
- Executive Board member of ÖGOR (Austrian Society of Operations Research, 2013–2016)
- Management Board member of EU COST Action CA15140 ImAppNIO since 2016
Background
- Research interests include algorithmic problems in application domains such as network design and other graph problems, transportation optimization, cutting and packing, computational biology, scheduling and timetabling
- Focus on combinatorial optimization using exact methods (e.g., mathematical programming, branch and bound, dynamic programming, constraint programming) as well as heuristics and metaheuristics
- Research in machine learning and reinforcement learning
- Particular emphasis on hybrid optimization techniques combining (meta-)heuristics, exact optimization, and machine learning
- Interest in efficient algorithms and data structures