Thomas Stützle
Scholar

Thomas Stützle

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F.R.S.-FNRS Research Director, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB)
Stochastic Local SearchMetaheuristicsSwarm IntelligenceComputational IntelligenceOptimization
Citations & Impact
All-time
Citations
22,817
 
H-index
53
 
i10-index
160
 
Publications
20
 
Co-authors
56
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Contact
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
  • Co-authored a GECCO 2002 paper with Mauro Birattari, Luis Paquete, and Klaus Varrentrap, which received the 2012 SIGEVO Impact Award; authored books like 'Ant Colony Optimization' (MIT Press, 2004) and 'Stochastic Local Search - Foundations and Applications' (Morgan Kaufman, 2004); serves as an associate editor or editorial board member for multiple journals.
Research Experience
  • Works at IRIDIA lab; involved in several research projects, such as the development of the irace software package for automatic algorithm configuration.
Education
  • Received his Master's degree (German Diplom) in Business Engineering from the University of Karlsruhe, Germany in 1994; earned his PhD from the Computer Science Department of Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany in 1998; and obtained 'Habilitation' for computer science from the same university in 2004.
Background
  • Research interests include ant colony optimization, stochastic local search methods, etc. He is a Research Director with the Belgian F.R.S.-FNRS.
Miscellany
  • Teaches Heuristic Optimization, a 5 ECTS course during the second semester of the academic year 2017/18.