Biography
Guenter Rudolph is Professor of Computer Science at
Dortmund University of Technology, Germany. He studied computer science
at the Universities of Karlsruhe and Dortmund. After receiving the
masters degree (Diplom-Informatiker) in Computer Science in 1991 he has
been with the Department of Computer Science at the University of
Dortmund in the field of parallel computing. From 1994 to 1996 he was
scientist at the Informatics Center Dortmund (ICD). After earning
the doctoral degree in computer science at the University of Dortmund
in 1996 he returned to the University of Dortmund in 1997 for
postdoctoral research in theoretical projects of the Collaborative
Research Center on Computational Intelligence (SFB 531). From 2001 to
2005 he served in various positions in product and software development
at Parsytec AG, Aachen (Germany), before he was appointed Professor of
Computer Science.
He is General Chair of the 10th International Conference on Parallel
Problem Solving from Nature (PPSN 2008), associate editor of the IEEE
Transactions on Evolutionary Computation and editorial board member of
the Journal on Evolutionary Computation (MIT Press) and the
International Journal of Computational Intelligence Research. His main
research interests are computer-aided applied optimization.
