Holger H. Hoos is a

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and a Alexander von Humboldt-professor of

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RWTH Aachen University RWTH Aachen University (), also known as North Rhine-Westphalia Technical University of Aachen, Rhine-Westphalia Technical University of Aachen, Technical University of Aachen, University of Aachen, or ''Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hoch ...

. He also holds a part-time appointment as a professor of

machine learning Machine learning (ML) is a field of inquiry devoted to understanding and building methods that 'learn', that is, methods that leverage data to improve performance on some set of tasks. It is seen as a part of artificial intelligence. Machine ...

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, and he is an adjunct professor at the

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of the

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, where he held a full-time professorial appointment from 2000 until 2016. His research interests are focused on

, at the intersection of

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and

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, with applications in

empirical algorithmics In computer science, empirical algorithmics (or experimental algorithmics) is the practice of using empirical methods to study the behavior of algorithms. The practice combines algorithm development and experimentation: algorithms are not just des ...

bioinformatics Bioinformatics () is an interdisciplinary field that develops methods and software tools for understanding biological data, in particular when the data sets are large and complex. As an interdisciplinary field of science, bioinformatics combi ...

and

operations research Operations research ( en-GB, operational research) (U.S. Air Force Specialty Code: Operations Analysis), often shortened to the initialism OR, is a discipline that deals with the development and application of analytical methods to improve deci ...

. In particular, he works on automated algorithm design and on stochastic local search algorithms. Since 2015, he is a Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), and since 2020 a Fellow of the

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(EurAI) as well as a Fellow of the

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(ACM). He wrote the book ''Stochastic Local Search: Foundations and Applications'' (with Thomas Stützle), and his research is published widely in internationally leading journals and conference proceedings. He also works in

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, where he created the

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music

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and computer music system (with Thomas Helbich, Jürgen Kilian and Kai Renz) as well as

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(with Keith Hamel). Hoos studied computer science at Department of Computer Science of the

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and received his

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there in 1998.

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Holger H. Hoos's research group
at the Leiden University
Holger H. Hoos homepage
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