Difference between revisions of "Aleš Zamuda"

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Level of education: M. Sc. Title: Teaching assistant Membership in organizations: IEEE (CIS) Room: F-203 (lab), F-204 (cabinet) Phone: (+386 2) 220 7404 E-mail: ales.zamuda@uni-mb.si (pubkey) Personal website: http://www.aleszamuda.si/

Ales Zamuda received B.Sc. degree in computer science from University of Maribor in 2006 and M.Sc. degree in computer science from University of Maribor in 2008. He is currently a PhD candidate and affiliated with the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Maribor. His areas of interest include evolutionary algorithms, multicriterion optimization, artificial life, and computer animation. His current research is in the field of multicriterion optimization, where he is researching self adaptive techniques for differential evolution. He is a IEEE member and also a reviewer for the IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation and other prominent scientific journals. He has been a member of the program/technical committees of more than ten international conferences over the last few years including CEC since 2007.

Research Highlights

Multiobjective optimization and evolutionary algorithms and Artificial life and computer animation (programme EcoMod)

• University of Maribor award for research work (Andrej Perlach's award) - at Rector's Day of University of Maribor '08 (ratification),
• faculty awards for research work - at Day of faculty 2006 (ratification), Day of faculty 2007 (ratification) and Day of FERI 2008 (4.12.2008),
• vice champion (2nd place) of the Student Paper Competition of the IEEE Region 8, which was held at the conference EUROCON 2007 in Poland, between 9th and 12th Sept. 2007 (certificate),
• ranking at IEEE CEC world competitions on performance assessment of evolutionary algorithms (Top 5, several times 2007-2010),
• victory at competition of student papers ERK '06 (certificate) and then invitation (2 March 2007) to compete with the 5 best papers on the Student Paper Competition of the IEEE Region 8 (Europe, Africa, Middle East), which was held in Poland, between 9th and 12th Sept. 2007 (IEEE site news),
• memorial gift of MVZT minister for visible results on international competitions, at reception for students, university and faculty leaders and public research institutions,
• first award and golden plaque at competition for most inventive and business oriented project Eureka! mladi 2008, Ljubljana, 22. 10. 2008.

Major publications of scientific research

(pdf) A. Zamuda, J. Brest, B. Bošković, V. Žumer. Differential Evolution for Parameterized Procedural Woody Plant Models Reconstruction. Applied Soft Computing, 2011, volume 11, issue 8, pp. 4904-4912. DOI 10.1016/j.asoc.2011.06.009.

(pdf) A. Zamuda, J. Brest, N. Guid, and V. Žumer. Modelling, Simulation, and Visualization of Forest Ecosystems. The IEEE Region 8 EUROCON 2007: International conference on "Computer as a tool", September 9-12, 2007, Warsaw, Poland, 2007, pp. 2600-2606.

(pdf) A. Zamuda, J. Brest, B. Bošković, V. Žumer. Študija samoprilagajanja krmilnih parametrov pri algoritmu DEMOwSA. Elektrotehniški vestnik, 2008, volume 75, issue 4, pp. 223-228.

(pdf) A. Zamuda, J. Brest, B. Bošković, V. Žumer. Differential Evolution with Self-adaptation and Local Search for Constrained Multiobjective Optimization. IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC) 2009, 2009, pp. 195-202.

(pdf) A. Zamuda, J. Brest, B. Bošković, V. Žumer. Large Scale Global Optimization Using Differential Evolution with Self-adaptation and Cooperative Co-evolution. 2008 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence, 2008, pp. 3719-3726.

(pdf) A. Zamuda, J. Brest, B. Bošković, V. Žumer. Differential Evolution for Multiobjective Optimization with Self Adaptation. The 2007 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation CEC2007, 2007, pp. 3617-3624.

(pdf) J. Brest, A. Zamuda, B. Bošković, V. Žumer. An Analysis of the Control Parameters’Adaptation in DE. Advances in Differential Evolution, Studies in Computational Intelligence, (ISBN: 978-3-540-68827-3), Chakraborty, Uday K. (Ed.), 2008, volume 143, pp. 89-110.

Bibliography

• bibliography accessible with the system COBISS
• selected papers accessible from common archive of LabRAJ bibliography
• citations in Engineering Village and Google Scholar
• researcher profile at SICRIS and evaluation of bibliographic indicators of research efficiency with ARRS method

Service to the profession

• member of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society
• member of Slovenian group on nature inspired algorithms and Slovenian Artificial Intelligence Society

• reviewer for scientific journals with great SCI factor:
  • IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation (2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011; IF=3.736 (2008), 4.589 (2009), 4.371 (2010)),
  • IEEE transactions on systems, man and cybernetics. Part B. Cybernetics (2009-2010, IF=2.361 (2008), 3.007 (2009)),
  • Journal of industrial and management optimization (2008, IF=1.181 (2008), 1.12 (2009)),
  • IEEE transactions on industrial electronics (2009, IF=5.468 (2008), 4.678 (2009))
  • International Journal of Systems Science (Taylor & Francis) (2010, IF=0.918)
  • Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence -- Elsevier (2010, IF=1.444)
• reviewer for international scientific Congresses on Evolutionary Computation
  • CEC 2011 (New Orleans, ZDA),
  • IEEE SSCI 2011 Symposium on Differential Evolution (SDE), Paris, IEEE SSCI 2012 Symposium on Swarm Intelligence and Differential Evolution (SIDE), Zakopane, 2013 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (IEEE SSCI 2013) Symposium on Differential Evolution (SDE)
  • WCCI 2010 (Barcelona),
  • IEEE CEC 2009 (Trondheim),
  • IEEE WCCI 2008 (Hong Kong), and
  • IEEE CEC2007 (Singapore)
• reviewer for scientific journals not yet under SCI:
  • Swarm and Evolutionary Computation (2010, 2011)
  • Memetic Computing (2012)
  • Informatica (2010)
• other expertises
  • reviewer for international scientific conferences: ICEM 2010- XIX International Conference on Electrical Machines, Rome, Italy, 6.-8. September 2010, SEMCCO 2010 International Conference on Swarm, Evolutionary and Memetic Computing, Chennai, India, 16.-18. December 2010, editor and reviewer for IEEE ERK 2010, SEMCCO 2011: Swarm Evolutionary and Memetic Computing Conference
  • reviewer for journal Informatica
  • section chair at Artificial Intelligence, IEEE ERK 2010

Expert knowledge

• programming languages C, C++, C# (ASP.NET), Java (Eclipse, JBuilder), Delphi, PHP, Ruby, C for CUDA
• web technologies HTML, CSS, XHTML, RSS, Web 2.0
• utilities Qt4, Win32 API, MySQL,
• office utilities OpenOffice.Org (Writer, Calc, Presentation), Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), LaTeX, programming PDF
• Linux, BSD, KDE, GNOME
• CMS: MediaWiki, Joomla, Moodle
• OpenGL, AI in games, evolutionary optimization algorithms
• Unix (Linux and Mac OS X) administration

Past projects/hacks

Computer games programming: board games (QuTeChess - 2004, Reversi GUI & engine - 2003, four in a row - 1994 (in elementary school)), card games (šnops - 1996), arcade games (BlowUp, Wheel of Fortune) Genetic algorithm for tunning of evaluation functions in board games (matefind -- pdf, code - 2003) Distributed system for caching, filtering and presentation of RSS feeds (2005) Other topics of interest: computer security, linux, Mac OS X

International travels

• Trondheim, Norway, congress IEEE CEC 2009
• Singapore, congress IEEE CEC2007
• Warsaw, Poland, conference EUROCON 2007