Elena Popovici
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Studies:
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Fall 2006, PhD in Computer Science, Department of Computer Science, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA
GPA 3.95
Dissertation: An Analysis of Two-Population Coevolutionary Computation
Advisor: Kenneth De Jong
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Summer 2000, MS in Computer Science, Faculty of Computer Science, Al. I. Cuza University, Iasi, Romania
GPA 3.66
Thesis: A Social Mutation Operator for Genetic Algorithms
Advisor: Henri Luchian
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Summer 1999, BS in Computer Science, Faculty of Computer Science, Al. I. Cuza University, Iasi, Romania
GPA 3.97
Thesis: Cross-clustering Using Genetic Algorithms
Advisor: Henri Luchian
Research Interests:
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Artificial Intelligence
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Evolutionary Computation
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Co-evolution -- Analysis methods for evolutionary and co-evolutionary algorithms -- Generative representations (cellular automata, Lindenmayer-systems ...) -- Evolutionary design
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Multi-agent systems / Agent-based Modeling / Simulations
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Search and optimization
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Adaptation and self-organization
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Dynamical systems and chaos
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Algorithms and complexity
Industry Experience:
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September 2006 - Present: Complexity Scientist, Icosystem Corp., Cambridge, MA, USA
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October 2003 - January 2004: Software Engineer R&D, Canonline Media Corporation, part of NS8, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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August 1999 - July 2000: Software Developer, Artinfo SRL, Iasi, Romania
Academic Experience:
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January 2004 - August 2006: Research Assistant, Evolutionary Computation Laboratory, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA
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September 2003 - October 2003: Computer Instructor, Anderson National College, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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June 2002 - August 2003: Research Assistant, Evolutionary Computation Laboratory, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA
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Sept 2001 - May 2002: Teaching Assistant, Computer Science Department, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA
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July 2000 - August 2001: Research Assistant, Learning Agents Laboratory, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA
Merit:
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Best Paper Award Nomination for Genetic Algorithms Track at the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, Montrela, QC, Canada, 2009
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Best Paper Award Winner for Coevolution Track at the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, Seattle, WA, USA, 2006
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Best Paper Award Winner for Coevolution Track at the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, Washington, D.C., USA, 2005
- Socrates Scholarship: one semester spent at Ecolè Informatique, Université des Sciences et Technologies, Lille, France
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Multiple prizes in online programming competitions at TopCoder (see profile), 2002 - 2004
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1st place (with team) at the John Hopkins site of the 2001 Mid-Atlantic Regionals of the ACM International Programming Contest (10th place overall), Johns Hopkins University, USA, 2001
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3rd place (with team) at the National Informatics College Contest, Craiova, Romania, 1998
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1st place (with team) at the G. Moisil National Informatics College Contest, Iasi, Romania, 1997
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Yearly Merit Scholarship, Al. I. Cuza University, Iasi, Romania, 1995-2000
Refereed Publications:
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Philipp Stuermer, Anthony Bucci, Juergen Branke, Pablo Funes, and Elena Popovici. Analysis of coevolution for worst-case optimization. In Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference -- GECCO-2009. (c) ACM.
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Elena Popovici and Kenneth De Jong. Monotonicity versus performance in co-optimization. In Foundations of Genetic Algorithms -- FOGA X. 2009. (c) ACM.
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Elena Popovici, Oliver Bandte, Paolo Gaudiano. New Approaches for the Automated Performance Evaluation and Design of Control Systems:
A Firemain Example. In Proceedings of the Automation and Control Symposium, American Society for Naval Engineers (ASNE), December 2007.
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Elena Popovici and Kenneth De Jong. Sequential versus Parallel Cooperative Coevolutionary Algorithms for Optimization. In Proceedings of the Congress on Evolutionary Computation -- CEC-2006. (c) IEEE.
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Elena Popovici and Kenneth De Jong. The Effects of Interaction Frequency on the Optimization Performance of Cooperative Coevolution. In Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference -- GECCO-2006. (c) ACM.
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Elena Popovici and Kenneth De Jong. The Dynamics of the Best Individuals in Coevolution. In Journal of Natural Computing -- NACO, 2006. (c) Springer.
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Elena Popovici and Kenneth De Jong. A Dynamical Systems Analysis of Collaboration Methods in Cooperative Co-evolution. In Coevolutionary and Coadaptive Systems Workshop at the AAAI Fall Symposia -- AAAIFS-2005. (c) AAAI Press.
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Elena Popovici and Kenneth De Jong. Relationships between Internal and External Metrics in Co-evolution. In Proceedings of the Congress on Evolutionary Computation -- CEC-2005. (c) IEEE.
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Elena Popovici and Kenneth De Jong. Understanding Cooperative Co-evolutionary Dynamics via Simple Fitness Landscapes. In Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference -- GECCO-2005. H.-G. Beyer et al., Eds. (c) ACM.
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Elena Popovici and Kenneth De Jong. Understanding Competitive Co-evolutionary Dynamics via Fitness Landscapes. In Artificial Multiagent Learning Workshop at the AAAI Fall Symposia -- AAAIFS-2004. S. Luke, Ed. (c) AAAI Press.
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Oguejiofor, E., Kicinger, R., Popovici, E., Arciszewski, T., DeJong, K. Intelligent Tutoring Systems: An Ontology Based Approach. In International Journal of Computing in Architecture, Engineering, and Construction, Vol. 2, No. 2, 2004.
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Elena Popovici and Kenneth De Jong. Understanding EA Dynamics via Population Fitness Distributions. In Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference -- GECCO-2003. E. Cantu-Paz, Ed.(c) Springer.
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Mihai Boicu, Gheorghe Tecuci, Bogdan Stanescu, Gabriel C. Balan and Elena Popovici. Ontologies and the Knowledge Acquisition Bottleneck. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Ontologies and Information Sharing at the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence -- IJCAI-2001. (c) AAAI Press.
Other Publications:
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Elena Popovici, Anthony Bucci, Paul Wiegand, and Edwin D. De Jong. Coevolutionary principles. Chapter in Handbook of Natural Computing -- HNC. 2010 (to appear). (c) Springer.
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Elena Popovici. Evolving Families of Designs Using L-systems - Technical Report, Computer Science Department at George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA, 2005.
Tutorials:
Invited Talks:
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Monotonic convergence and memory requirements of algorithms for interactive search problems. - Dagstuhl Seminar Series on Theory of Evolutionary Algorithms, Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany, 2008.
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An Introduction to Coevolutionary Algorithms and Their Dynamics. - Beta Lab, Computer Science Department, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada, 2004.
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Intelligent Tutoring Systems: An Ontology Based Approach - The Hierarchical Research and Learning Network Demo Day, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, USA, 2003.
Professional Service:
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Reviewer: Genetic Algorithms Track, Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, GECCO-2009, (c) ACM.
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Reviewer: Coevolution Track, Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, GECCO-2008, (c) ACM.
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Reviewer: Coevolution Track, Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, GECCO-2007, (c) ACM.
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Reviewer: Annals of Operations Research Special Issue on Stochastic Algorithms, 2004, (c) Springer.
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Reviewer: ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, 2004, (c) ACM.
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Student Volunteer: IJCAI-2001, GECCO-2003, GECCO-2004, GECCO-2005, CEC-2005, AAAI-FS-2005
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Student Member: ACM, SIGEVO, IEEE, AAAI
Languages:
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English (fluent)
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French (good)
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Romanian (native)