Marco Dorigo (born 26 August 1961, in

Milan Milan ( , , Lombard: ; it, Milano ) is a city in northern Italy, capital of Lombardy, and the second-most populous city proper in Italy after Rome. The city proper has a population of about 1.4 million, while its metropolitan city h ...

, Italy) is a research director for the Belgian Funds for Scientific Research and a co-director of ''IRIDIA'', the artificial intelligence lab of the Université Libre de Bruxelles. He received a PhD in System and Information Engineering in 1992 from the

Polytechnic University of Milan The Polytechnic University of Milan () is the largest technical university in Italy, with about 42,000 students. The university offers undergraduate, graduate and higher education courses in engineering, architecture and design. Founded in 186 ...

with a thesis titled ''Optimization, learning, and natural algorithms''. He is the leading proponent of the

ant colony optimization In computer science and operations research, the ant colony optimization algorithm (ACO) is a probabilistic technique for solving computational problems which can be reduced to finding good paths through graphs. Artificial ants stand for multi ...

metaheuristic In computer science and mathematical optimization, a metaheuristic is a higher-level procedure or heuristic designed to find, generate, or select a heuristic (partial search algorithm) that may provide a sufficiently good solution to an optimizati ...

(see his book published by

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in 2004), and one of the founders of the

swarm intelligence Swarm intelligence (SI) is the collective behavior of decentralized, self-organized systems, natural or artificial. The concept is employed in work on artificial intelligence. The expression was introduced by Gerardo Beni and Jing Wang in 1989, in ...

research field. Recently he got involved with research in

swarm robotics Swarm robotics is an approach to the coordination of multiple robots as a system which consist of large numbers of mostly simple physical robots. ″In a robot swarm, the collective behavior of the robots results from local interactions between ...

: he is the coordinator of ''Swarm-bots: Swarms of self-assembling artifacts'' and of ''Swarmanoid: Towards humanoid robotic swarms'', two swarm robotics projects funded by the Future and Emerging Technologies Program of the

European Commission The European Commission (EC) is the executive of the European Union (EU). It operates as a cabinet government, with 27 members of the Commission (informally known as "Commissioners") headed by a President. It includes an administrative body o ...

. He is also the founding editor and editor in chief of ''

Swarm Intelligence Swarm intelligence (SI) is the collective behavior of decentralized, self-organized systems, natural or artificial. The concept is employed in work on artificial intelligence. The expression was introduced by Gerardo Beni and Jing Wang in 1989, in ...

'', the principal peer-reviewed publication dedicated to reporting research and new developments in this multidisciplinary field. For these contributions, in 2003 he was awarded the

Marie Curie Research Excellence Award Marie may refer to: People Name * Marie (given name) * Marie (Japanese given name) * Marie (murder victim), girl who was killed in Florida after being pushed in front of a moving vehicle in 1973 * Marie (died 1759), an enslaved Cree person in Tr ...

by the European Commission; on 22 November 2005, he was presented the Dr A. De Leeuw-Damry-Bourlart award in Applied Sciences by the King of Belgium, Albert II; in 2007 he received the Cajastur International Prize for Soft Computing, awarded by the European Centre for Soft Computing; and in 2015 he received the

IEEE Frank Rosenblatt Award The IEEE Frank Rosenblatt Award is a Technical Field Award established by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Board of Directors in 2004. This award is presented for outstanding contributions to the advancement of the design, ...

. He is the recipient of an

ERC Advanced Grant The European Research Council (ERC) is a public body for funding of scientific and technological research conducted within the European Union (EU). Established by the European Commission in 2007, the ERC is composed of an independent Scientific ...

(2010). He is the most cited author in three journals: *

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics The IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society (IEEE SMCS) is a professional society of the IEEE. It aims "to serve the interests of its members and the community at large by promoting the theory, practice, and interdisciplinary aspects of systems ...

, * IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine, and *

Artificial Life Artificial life (often abbreviated ALife or A-Life) is a field of study wherein researchers examine systems related to natural life, its processes, and its evolution, through the use of simulations with computer models, robotics, and biochemistry ...

Publications (selected)

*''Ant Colony Optimization'' with Thomas Stützle, MIT Press, 2004 (). *''Swarm Intelligence : From Natural to Artificial Systems'' with Eric Bonabeau and Guy Theraulaz, Oxford University Press, 1999 (). *''Robot Shaping'' with Marco Colombetti, MIT Press, 1998 (). *''Ant algorithms for discrete optimization'' with Gianni Di Caro and Luca Maria Gambardella, Artificial Life, Vol. 5, N. 2, 1999. *''Ant Colony System: A Cooperative Learning Approach to the Traveling Salesman Problem''. IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, 1 (1): 53–66. (This became the second most cited paper ever published by IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation.)

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