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Academic Achievements
Published in top journals including Nature, Science Robotics, Nature Machine Intelligence, and Nature Communications. Delivered a TED talk, a keynote at hub.berlin, and a special lecture at Paradiso, Amsterdam (Dutch with English subtitles). His work has been covered by TV stations (NOS, VPRO, RAI Uno, ARTE), popular magazines (Wired, New Scientist, Techcrunch), and professional periodicals like The Communications of the ACM. Notable projects include the Robot Baby Project, Autonomous Robot Evolution Project, and the SPEAR project.
Research Experience
Has worked on a diverse set of topics from theoretical foundations to artificial societies, multi-sexual reproduction, and applications in health, finance, and traffic management. Recently active in the field of Embodied AI, specifically in Evolutionary Robotics.
Background
An Artificial Intelligence expert with 30+ years of experience. Works as a full professor at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, leading the Computational Intelligence Group, and as a visiting professor at the University of York, UK. His research is in the fields of Artificial Intelligence, Artificial Life, and Adaptive Collective Systems, with an approach based on Evolutionary Computing.
Miscellany
Values outreach, having exhibited his Escher style evolutionary art system at Kunstmuseum Den Haag.