Riccardo Poli (born 1961) is a

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in the Department of Computing and Electronic Systems of the

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. His work has centered on

genetic programming In artificial intelligence, genetic programming (GP) is a technique of evolving programs, starting from a population of unfit (usually random) programs, fit for a particular task by applying operations analogous to natural genetic processes to t ...

Education

Poli started his academic career with a

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in electronic engineering from the

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in 1989. He then did a PhD in biomedical image analysis (1993) at the same university. He later became an expert in the field of evolutionary computation, working as a Lecturer and then a

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at the

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from 1994 until 2001, when he moved to Essex as a professor. Poli has published around 240 refereed papers and two books (Langdon and Poli, 2002; Poli, Langdon, McPhee, 2008) on the theory and applications of

evolutionary algorithms In computational intelligence (CI), an evolutionary algorithm (EA) is a subset of evolutionary computation, a generic population-based metaheuristic optimization algorithm. An EA uses mechanisms inspired by biological evolution, such as reproduct ...

, particle swarm optimisation,

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s, neural networks, image analysis,

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and

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. He is a member of the EPSRC Peer Review College, an EU expert evaluator and a grant-proposal referee for Irish, Swiss and Italian funding bodies.

Genetic Programming

He is a Fellow of the International Society for Genetic and Evolutionary Computation and a recipient of the EvoStar award for outstanding contributions to this field (2007). He was an ACM SIGEVO executive board member until 2013. He was co-founder and co-chair of the

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(EuroGP) (1998–2000, 2003). He was general chair (2004), track chair (2002, 2007), business committee member (2005), and competition chair (2006) of ACM’s

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, co-chair of the

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Workshop (FOGA) (2002) and technical chair of the International Workshop on

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(2006). Poli is an associate editor of ''Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines'', '' Evolutionary Computation'' and the ''International Journal of Computational Intelligence Research''. He is an advisory board member of the ''Journal on Artificial Evolution and Applications'' and an editorial board member of ''Swarm Intelligence''. Poli co-wrote ''Foundations of Genetic Programming'' and ''A Field Guide to Genetic Programming''. A book review in ''Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines'' noted that the latter book was unusual because it had been published under a

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Poli, Riccardo 1961 births Living people Academics of the University of Essex University of Florence alumni Academics of the University of Birmingham