Scholar
Marco Dorigo
Google Scholar ID: PwYT6EMAAAAJ
FNRS Research Director, IRIDIA, Université Libre de Bruxelles
Citations & Impact
Citations
39,740
H-index
69
i10-index
225
Publications
20
Co-authors
83
list available
Contact
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- - Recipient of the IEEE Evolutionary Computation Pioneer Award (2016)
- - Recipient of the IEEE Frank Rosenblatt Award (2015)
- - Honorary Doctorate awarded by University of Pretoria (2015)
- - Elected AAAI fellow (2015)
- - ERC Advanced Grant for the project 'E-Swarm: Engineering Swarm Intelligence Systems' (2010)
- - CajAstur International Prize for Soft Computing (2007)
- - ECCAI fellow (2007)
- - IEEE fellow (2006)
- - FNRS - Dr A. De Leeuw-Damry-Bourlart award in Applied Sciences (2005)
- - Marie Curie Excellence Award from European Commission (2003)
- - Botsker Award for Innovative Technology (2012)
- - AAAI Best AI Video Award for the Movie 'Swarmanoid, The Movie' (2011)
- - Best Video Award at the AAAI-07 AI Video Competition (2007)
Research Experience
- - Research Director for the Belgian Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique
- - Co-director of the IRIDIA lab at the Université Libre de Bruxelles
- - General Chair, Vice-General Chair, and Honorary Chair for multiple international conferences on Swarm Intelligence (ANTS, SWARM, DARS)
Education
- - Ph.D. in System and Information Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, Italy, 1992
- - Agrégé de l'Enseignement Supérieur, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium, 1995
Background
- He is the inventor of the Ant Colony Optimization metaheuristic for combinatorial optimization problems. His research interests include swarm intelligence, robotics, and artificial life.
Miscellany
- - Founder of the ANTS series of workshops on Ant Colony Optimization and Swarm Intelligence
- - Maintains the home page for Ant Colony Optimization
- - Home page maintainer for the IST-FET project 'Swarm-bots'
- - Cited in Michael Crichton's novel 'Prey'
