People, working or having worked on Particle Swarm
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Mohammad A. Abido
 Electrical Engineering Department, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Saudi Arabia. Research area:
Power System Analysis, Stability, and Control,  Flexible AC Transmission Lines (FACTS),  Power System Planning and Operation,  Optimization Techniques,  Evolutionary Algorithms, Neuro-Fuzzy Control and Hybrid Intelligent Systems,  Reactive Power Control and Voltage Stability. 		Home Page, Saudi Arabia
 2003-01
Hifza Afaq
 PhD student in the Department of Computer Science at Dayalbagh Educational Institute, Agra, India. Working on Multiobjective optimization using Nature Inspired Computing Techniques (particle swarm optimization and others). Research Interests: Nature/ Bio Inspired Computing, Robotics, Swarm Intelligence, Multi-objective optimization.
2012-11
Shafiq Alam
 University of Auckland
Data Mining - Swarm Intelligence - Particle Swarm Optimization - Data Clustering
Home Page
 2014-02
Sandeep Aryal
 Computer Science Masters, Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal. Having done masters thesis on PSO as the main topic, I am currently more into research on PSO.
 Home Page, Nepal
 2013-05
Lemuel Carlos Ramos Arzola
 I am hydraulic engineer that work in the Institute Superior Polytechnic José Antonio Echeverría (CUJAE) inside of the Hydraulic Research Centers (CIH), La Habana, Cuba. I belong to Underground Water Group (GAS) and work in inverse problems of parameters estimation utilizing heuristic techniques. We are utilizing in these moments PSO in the creation of a model mathematician for the properties's calibration of one water-bearing.
2013-03
Anne Auger  Projet TAO, INRIA Futurs, LRI, Orsay, France.
Global optimization algorithms. Theoretical aspects of Evolutionary Algorithms. Simulation of chemical and biology system modelized by the Master equation. Numerical resolution of control problems		 Home Page France 2007-05
Ali Al-Awami Department of Electrical Engineering, King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals (KFUPM). Research interests: Power System Control, Power System Operation, FACTS Devices and Their Control, Artificial Intelligence Techniques, Optimization Techniques Home Page, Saudi Arabia 2006-11
Mohammad Majid al-Rifaie
 Researcher at Department of Computing, Goldsmiths College, University of London.
My research interest started with swarm intelligence and although (in addition to optimisation) it has taken me to computational creativity, arts, philosphy and even medicine (detecting cancer in bone scans, mammographs, etc), still the unknown of the swarms triggers and tickles my inner curiosity.
 Home Page
 2012-11
Dimitris K. Agrafiotis Dr. Dimitris K. Agrafiotis is Senior Director of the chemi-informatics group at 3-Dimensional Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Dr. Agrafiotis holds a Ph.D. in theoretical organic chemistry from Imperial College, University of London (1988, Prof. H. Rzepa advisor). Following post-doctoral training with Prof. A. Streitwieser at the University of California, Berkeley, and Nobel laureate E. J. Corey at Harvard, he joined Parke-Davis Pharmaceutical Research as a Senior Scientist in the Computer-Aided Drug Design group. In 1994, he moved to 3-Dimensional Pharmaceuticals, Inc. where he has focused on the development of intelligent computational tools for combinatorial chemistry, high-throughput screening, and structure-based drug design. He serves on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Molecular Graphics and Modelling and is a co-inventor of 3DP’s proprietary DirectedDiversity®technology Home Page 2001-12-04
Pete J. Angeline Nutech Solutions. Vice-President of Products Home Page, USA 2006-05
Adham Atyabi
 Flinders University, South Australia. M.Sc thesis title: "Navigating agents in uncertain environment using Particle Swarm Optimization".
 Home Page, Australia
 2012-05
Sébastien Aupetit PhD student in Computer Science at Laboratoire d’Informatique, Polytech'Tours, France. Main research interests: Hidden Markov Models, optimization with biomimetic metaheuristics, information visualization. Home Page, France 2006-09
Ayed Atallah Salman Assistant Professor. Electrical & Computer Engineering Department, Kuwait University. Research Interests: Application of evolutionary computations (e.g., Genetic Algorithms, Genetic Programming, Ant Colony Systems, Particle Swarm Optimization) in data mining, web mining and multi-objective optimization; E-Commerce. Neural Network, Machine learning. Home Page Kuwait

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 2003-01

2004-09
Roshan Bagdiya Research Scholar Pursuing Master Degree (ME) from MITCOE, Pune 
CSE Department. Pune, India
 Home Page
2015-09
Jagdish Chand Bansal Dr. Jagdish Chand Bansal is an Assistant Professor in the Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management Gwalior, India. My interests lie in improving PSO and applications of PSO for combinatorial problems. Example of paper (with Kusum Deep): "Hybridization of Particle Swarm Optimization with Quadratic Approximation" Home page
India		 2010-06
Thomas Bartz-Beielstein
 Universität Dortmund. My current work is in the field of evolutionary algorithms. My interests include optimization, modeling, simulation, statistical analysis and experimental design of complex real-world problems.
 Home Page, Germany
 2006-08
Mithun M. Bhaskar
 Mithun Bhaskar works on Nature and Bio-Inspired Algorithms / Artificial Intelligence and CI development for Electrical Engineering Applications' He is researcher at National Institute of Technology, India
 India
 2011-04
Peter Bentley
 Honorary Research Fellow and Writer,  Department of Computer Science, University College London Home Page UK
 2003-04
Stefan Bird PhD student at RMIT University. His research area is speciation and particle swarms. Home Page Australia 2007-02
Brian Birge Applying PSO to intelligent control and reference trajectory optimization for NASA's next generation Robotic Mars Landers. Developer of Matlab particle swarm toolbox (at www.mathworks.com). Research interests include adaptive neural network training with PSO, agent/memory based PSO, tracking dynamic environments, inverse modeling, clustering algorithms, biologically inspired computation, multiobjective optimization, and parallel high performance computing.
 Home Page  2006-10
Tim Blackwell
 Lecturer in Computing. Department of Computing, Goldsmiths College, University of London
The serious aspects of my work are musical improvisations with swarms, and the generation of new sounds using a Swarm Granulator. Otherwise, for fun, I use particle swarms, charged particle swarms and just recently quantum swarms for dynamic optimisation. 		Home Page  UK
 2003-11
Cosmin Danut Bocaniala Department of Communication Systems, InfoLab21, South Drive Lancaster University, UK. Research interests include: Computational Intelligence: Neural Networks, Fuzzy Logic, Particle Swarm Optimization. Applications to Fault Diagnosis and (Fault-Tolerant) Control. Example of PSO work: STATES – A Novel and Highly Performing Parameter Free Particle Swarm Optimizer. Home Page UK 2008-06
Ben Bogart
 Artistic Research/Development of projects dealing with complex and context-aware systems. See the "Identity" project.
 Home Page Canada
 2005-01
Buthainah Al-kazemi I am a Ph. D. Candidate of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department atSyracuse University. I am interested in the discrete version of Particle Swarm Optimization algorithm. My current work with Professor Chilukuri Mohan involves a variation of PSO called Multi-Phase PSO. We are obtaining very promising results. The new algorithm, MPSO works in both, continuous and discrete spaces. New: now at Kuwait University.
 Home Page Kuwait
 2004-01-27
Emilio F. Campana INSEAN, Resistenza idrodinamica e Ottimizzazione.
Example of paper: "Dynamic system analysis and initial particles position in Particle Swarm Optimization, E.F.Campana, G.Fasano, A.Pinto, IEEE Swarm Intelligence Symposium 2006, Indianapolis 12-14/05/2006 "		 Home page Italy 2010-09
Letitia Cecilia Cagnina
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 LIDIC. Example of paper: Solving Constrained Optimization Problems with a Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithm, 2008
 Home Page Argentina
2009-12
Anthony Carlisle Huntingdon College Home Page 2002-04
Walter Cedeño Dr. Walter Cedeño is a Research Fellow in the chemi-informatics group at 3-Dimensional Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Dr. Cedeño holds a B.S. and a M.S. in Applied Mathematics from the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras (1982, 1985), and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from University of California, Davis, (1995, Prof. V. Vemuri advisor). In 1982, he joined the Seismology group at the Center for Energy & Environment Research in Rio Piedras where he helped in the development of tools for automated seismic activity recognition. In 1985, he moved to the Computational Division at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory where he worked on parallel languages and automated access control systems. In 1993, he moved to the Scientific Computing group at Sterling Winthrop where he focused on laboratory automation. In 1996, he joined Hewlett Packard/Agilent Technologies where he focused on LIMS systems. He joined the chemi-informatics group at 3-Dimensional Pharmaceuticals, Inc. in 2000 where he has focused on the development of computational tools for combinatorial chemistry, high-throughput screening, and structure-based drug design. Home Page 2001-12-04
Richard Chapman Auburn University, Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering. Home Page USA 1999
Stephen Chen
 Associate Professor, Information Technology, York University, Toronto, Canada
Interested in methods to improve the balance between exploration and exploitation.  PSO implementations include restart-based methods, single-swarm methods, and multi-swarm methods.
 Home Page
ResearchGate
 2013-10
Ngaam J. Cheung
 He is currently working toward the Ph.D. degree in Control Science and Engineering at Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai.
His recent work focuses on designing algorithms to gain biological insights from large data sets. He works on a diverse set of problems, including Optimization Theory and Algorithms, Protein Folding, Protein-Protein Interactions, and Modeling of Systems Biology.
Home Page
China
 2014-03
Gabriela Ciuprina "Politehnica" University of Bucharest, Romania Home Page 2002-04
Maurice Clerc Mainly interested in mathematical aspects and "non classical" PSO (adaptive, discrete/granular, combinatorial, fuzzy). Working also on artificial intelligence (unsupervised learning). Currently working for France Telecom R&D on optimization problems.  Home Page or  (mirror)
France		 2002-09
A. R. Cockshott

2001
Carlos A. Coello Coello
alt. email here
 Research Interests: 
Evolutionary Computation (Genetic Algorithms and Evolution Strategies), Robotics, Data Compression,  Computer Graphics, Natural Language Processing, Functional Programming, Denotational Semantics 		 Home Page
CINVESTAV-IPN, México		 2007-03
Ernesto Costa
 Departamento de Engenharia Inform·tica,Polo II - Pinhal de Marrocos, 3030 Coimbra PORTUGAL
 Home Page Portugal
 2003-01
Swagatam Das He is presently serving as a lecturer in the department of Electronics and Tele-communication Engineering of Jadavpur University. His current research interests include evolutionary computing, swarm intelligence, pattern recognition, bioinformatics, control systems engineering, and digital signal processing. Home Page India 2010-06
Kusum Deep Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, India. Example of paper (with J.C. Bansal): "A new chaotic particle swarm optimization algorithm" Home Page
India		 2010-06
Gustavo Javier Diaz I am working on my Thesis Project for the "Maestria en Informatica" of the National University of Asuncion.
I am interested to use PSO algorithm for the optimization in the computer's network design area. 		 Centro Nacional de Computacion 
Universidad Nacional de Asuncion , Paraguay
Tel/Fax. (595)(21)585619, 585550 		 2000-08
Nihad Dib Assoc. Prof., Electrical Eng. Dept., Jordan University of Science and Technology. Research Interests: Computational Electromagnetics; Numerical modeling of microwave integrated circuits; Antennas. Home Page Jordan 2006-07
Yamille del Valle Georgia Institute of Technology. Example of paper in 2008: "Particle Swarm Optimization: Basic Concepts, Variants and Applications in Power Systems" Home Page USA 2008-05
Cecilia Di Chio Essex University. My research is part of the eXtended Particle Swarms (XPS) project. Home page UK 2007-09
Feng Ding Research Associate, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Alberta. Research Interest: Modeling and Identification, Adaptive Control, Self-tuning Control, Process Control and Its Applications, Multirate Systems, Stochastic Systems		 Home Page Canada 2006-03
Laura Diosan She currently works (2008) as an Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Department of Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Her main research area is in Evolutionary Computation, with a focus on Hybrid Evolutionary Algorithms. She is also interested in Swarm Intelligence (Particle Swarm Optimization, Ant Colonies Systems), Bioinformatics, Financial Modeling, etc. Home Page
Romania		 2008-02
Roy W. Dobbins
Mesa, AZ, US 2000-08
Gerry Dozier Assistant Professor, Computer Science and Engineering, Auburn University, AL 36849-5347, USA.  Genetic & Evolutionary Computation Constraint Satisfaction, Motion Planning & Obstacle Avoidance Home Page 2003-04
Régis Duvigneau INRIA Sophia-Antipolis. Scientific interests : Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD). CFD-based design optimization : * Optimization algorithms (genetic algorithms, particle swarm optimization, gradient-based, simplex) * Optimization under uncertainty (robust design)  Home Page France 2008-08
Russel Eberhart Associate Dean for Research and Professor of Electrical Engineering at the Purdue School of Engineering and Technology, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis ... (more) Home Page 2003-04
Adel Elmaghraby Director University of Louisville (UofL), Louisville, KY. Multimedia Research Lab, Chair of IEEE-CS Local Chapter, Computer Systems Consultant.
 Home Page Canada
 2003-12
Ahmed Ali Abdalla Esmin
 Diretor da Faculdade de Ciência da Computação - FACIC Home Page Brasil
 2003-08
George I. Evers
 He received the Master of Science in Engineering with an electrical concentration from The University of Texas – Pan American (UTPA). His thesis focused on combatting the premature convergence problem of PSO via parameter selection and an automatic regrouping mechanism. Regrouping PSO (RegPSO) published in the thesis has been presented at the 2009 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics.
 Home Page USA
2010-01
Mohammed. A. El-Sharkawi
 Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle
 Home Page
 2003-01
Andries Engelbrecht Senior Lecturer in Computer Science. University of Pretoria, South Africa Home Page 2001-09
H.-Y. Fan Turbo & Jet Engine Laboratory, Faculty of Aerospace Engineering, Technion, Israel Institute of Technologu.
 Home Page, Israel
 2003-01
Daniel Fealko Nova Southeastern University , USA. Thesis: Evaluating Particle Swarm Intelligence Techniques for Solving University Examination Timetabling Problems Home Page 2006-09
Jonathan Fieldsend
 Department of Computer Science, School of Engineering and Computer Science University of Exeter. UK Home Page UK
 2003-01
Jeremy Fix
 He works in computational Neuroscience and uses PSO to optimize parameters of Dynamic Neural Fields, a type of neural networks made of coupled differential equations which are difficult to tune manually . He also uses PSO to optimize controllers in reinforcement learning;
He developped a C++ template based library for population based optimization, named popot, which includes so far PSO and Artificial Bee Colony.
 Home Page France
 2012-08
Alex Freitas University of Kent, Computing Laboratory.  Seniro Lecturer. My main research interests involve the following areas: Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery; Bio-inspired algorithms (Evolutionary Algorithms, Swarm Inteligence, Artificial Immune Systems); Bioinformatics; Current Research Project - eXtended Particle Swarms (XPS) Home Page UK 2006-02
Nelis Franken University of Pretoria, Computer Science. Example of paper : "PSO-Based Coevolutionary Game Learning" Home Page, ZA 2007-04
Yoshikazu Fukuyama (M'90) He has been working at Fuji Electric Co. R&D Japan from 1987. His research interest include application of intelligent systems to power systems and power systems analysis.He is a member of IEEE and IEE of Japan. Home Page  2001-12
Louis Gacogne (LIP6)
or at CNAM
Home Page
France		 2003-04
Marcus Gallagher Lecturer. School of Computer Science & Electrical Engineering . The University of Queensland, Brisbane Q. 4072. Australia.  Home Page 2001-10
Jayshree Ghorpade-Aher Assistant Professor, Computer Dept. MITCOE, Pune, India.
2015-08
Eric Granger Professeur, Département de génie de la production automatisée, École de technologie supérieure, Montréal, Québec. "Particle Swarm Optimization of Fuzzy ARTMAP Parameters , IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence, July 2006". Home Page Canada 2006-08
David Grimshaw In the Winter 2000 semester I am teaching two courses, CPS 721: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence, and CPS 841: Advanced Topics in Computer Science  (Java). Home Page 2000-08
Crina Grosan She currently works (2006) as an Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Department of Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. She received her PhD degree from Babes-Bolyai University, Romania.Her main research area is in Evolutionary Computation, with a focus on Evolutionary Multiobjective Optimization and applications and Genetic Programming. She is also interested in Swarm Intelligence (Particle Swarm Optimization, Ant Colonies Systems), Bioinformatics, Financial Modeling, etc. Home Page Romania 2006-03
Hendrik Große-Löscher
 Development Engineer, Fuel Injection Systems, MAN Diesel & Turbo SE, Augsburg; Postgraduate, Institute for Automation and Systems Engineering, Ilmenau University of Technology; Engineering applications of PSO such as the optimization of an injection nozzle (11 parameters) and a cam shape (up to 361 parameters);
Papers: Swarm Intelligence for Optimization of Injection Nozzles. MTZ – Motortechnische Zeitschrift, Nr. 2, S. 80-85, Springer Automotive Media, Wiesbaden, 2010;
Particle Swarm Intelligence: A Particle Swarm Optimizer with Enhanced Global Search Qualities and Guaranteed Convergence, Proceedings of 55th IWK – Internationales Wissenschaftliches Kolloquium, pp. 186-191, Ilmenau University of Technology, Ilmenau, 2010;
2010-09
Christian Haubelt Department of Computer Science 12, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. Research interests: System-Level Design Automation, SPI - System Property Intervals, Modeling and Analysis of Distributed Hardware Reconfigurable Systems, Design Space Exploration Using Multi-Objective Evolutionary Algorithms
 Home Page Germany
 2006-03
Sabine Helwig Department of Computer Science 12, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany. Diploma thesis: Roboterschwarm-Optimierung (2005). Example of paper:"Particle Swarm Optimization in High-Dimensional Bounded Search Spaces" (2007) Home Page
Germany		 2007-09
Nicholas Holden Computing Laboratory, University of Kent. Research interests: I am currently interested in Particle Swarm Optimisation and the Classification task in Data Mining. I have developed a Categorical hybrid PSO/ACO algorithm for Classification Home Page UK 2006-03
Douglas A. Hoskins The central theme of my research is the application of concepts from Iterated Function Systems (IFSs) to the dynamics of complex systems. The long term goals are the development of the theoretical tools required for the analytical design of artificial neural networks and other large scale assemblies of interacting agents. Learning and adaptation will be components of the behavior of these systems, but not the central design paradigm.  Home Page
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University of Washington
Aeronautics  & Astronautics		 2000-08
Xiaohui Hu I am in a joint biomedical engineering program between Purdue University and Indiana University. My interest is to applying engineering technique on biomedical applications. currently my focus is on the following topics:  Modeling Driving Behaviors with Sleepiness and Inattention
Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) and Computational Intelligence 
Automatic Sleep Scoring and EEG Signal Analysis
Applications of Actigraphy to Neurology and Human Performance Assessment 		 Home Page, USA 2002-09
Evan Hughes Cranfield University
Royal Military College of Science, Shrivenham, Swindon, United Kingdom 		 Home Page 2002-03
Mudassar Iqbal University of Kent at Canterbury. Paper in April 2006: An Estimation of Distribution PSO. Home Page, UK 2006-05
Daniel Ioan "Politehnica" University of Bucharest, Romania Home Page 2002-04
Stefan Janson Fakultät für Mathematik und Informatik, Leipzig. Some papers with Daniel Merkle and/or Martin Middendorf:
A Hierarchical Particle Swarm Optimizer and its Adaptive Variant.
Honey bee swarms: How do scouts guide a swarm of uninformed bees?
 Home Page Germany 2005-12
Nanbo Jin Research assistant in UCLA antenna Lab. His research interests include microstrip antennas, periodic structures, reconfigurable antennas and Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) for electromagnetic applications. Home Page USA 2006-03
Sharat Jenigiri  Software Developer, Metamata Inc. Involved in the development of state of the art static analysis tools for the Java language.  Home Page 1998-06
Alex, Kai QIN Division of Control & Instrumentation, School of Electrical & Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. My research interests covers  pattern recognition, evolutionary computation, machine learning and neural networks Home Page Singapore 2006-10
James Kennedy I  am a research psychologist,  at the Bureau of Labor Statistics in Washington, DC. My professional work is involved with research into survey measurement error, and development, testing, and analysis of federal surveys. My independent research is mostly concerned with computer simulations of social systems, in particular the paradigm known as the Particle Swarm algorithm. Home Page 2006-12
Thomas Kiel Rasmussen Department of Computer Science. Aarhus University. Denmark Home Page 2001-04
James T. Kirby University of Delaware. Center of Applied Coastal Research. Ph. D.  2006 paper: "Dynamic open contours using particle swarm optimization with application to fluid interface extraction" Home Page USA 2006-03
Satoshi Kitayama Kanazawa University . Several papers, for example: "Adaptive Range Particle Swarm Optimization", 2006 Home Page (in Japanese) 2007-02
Markus Kress
 Institut für Angewandte Informatik und Formale Beschreibungsverfahren (AIFB). Example of paper: Gap Search in Particle Swarm Optimization
 Home Page (in German)
 2009-12
Byung Il Koh
 PhD. Student in Electrical & Computer Engineering at University of Florida. High Performance Computing & Simulation (HCS) Research Lab.
 Home Page USA
 2004-08
Thiemo Krink Department of Computer Science. Aarhus University. Denmark Home Page 2001-04
Renato Krohling
   Lehrstuhl für Elektrische Steuerung und Regelung
Fakultät für Elektrotechnik und Informationstechnik
Universität Dortmund		 Home Page, Germany
 2005-10
Charlie Paul Kumar

Karunya Institute of Technology, Coimbatore

 Home Page India
 2003-05
Punna Shiva Kumar Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur
2006-04
Gary Lamont Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering , Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering, (AFIT/ENG); B. of Physics, 1961; MSEE, 1967, PhD, 1970; University of Minnesota. His research interests include: parallel/distributed computation, evolutionary computation (genetic algorithms, evolutionary strategies, partical swarm optimization, ...), combinatorial optimization problems (single objective, multi-objective), formal methods, software engineering, digital signal processing, intelligent and distributed control systems, computational and numerical methods, and computer-aided design. Dr. Lamont leads the AFIT centers on Evolutionary Computation and Parallel and Distributed Computation.  Home Page
AIFT (Air Force Institut of Technology

 2001-08
WIlliam B. Langdon
 Senior Research Fellow, University of Essex. I have recently  started working on the eXtended Particle Swarm XPS optimisation project (2004-10). PSO papers: "Understanding particle swarm optimisation by evolving problem landscapes", "Extending particle swarm optimisation via genetic programming" Home Page UK
 2005-03
Eleni C. Laskari
  ''Mathematics of Computers and Decision Making'', Depts. of Mathematics, Computer Engineering & Informatics,University of Patras, Greece Home page, Greece
 2003-01
Alexandros Leontitsis Department of Education, University of Ioannina. My interests are connected with the analysis of chaotic time series. Especially I am interested in noise reduction and prediction. Some other topics I'm interested in are data analysis, statistics, simulation, and numerical analysis. Paper: A. Leontitsis, D. Kontogiorgos, J. Pagge "Repel the swarm to the optimum", Ed. Elsevier, Applied Mathematics and Computation 173 (2006) 265–272 Home Page Greece 2006-02
Xiaodong Li PhD.  School of Computer Science and Information Technology, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia. Example of paper: Locating and Tracking Multiple Dynamic Optima by a Particle Swarm Model using Speciation
 Home page, Australia 2007-05
Jing Liang
 Zhengzhou University. Evolutionary Computation - Particle Swarm Optimization - Multi-objective Optimization - Dynamic Optimization. 2008 PhD Thesis: Novel Particle Swarm Optimizers with Hybrid, Dynamic & Adaptive Neighborhood Structures (Nanyang Technological University). 2012 paper: Memetic Fitness Euclidean-Distance Particle Swarm Optimization for Multi-modal Optimization
 Home Page
 2012-04
Yun-Chia Liang
 Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Industrial Engineering, Yuan Ze University, Taiwan. Research interests: combinatorial optimization, meta-heuristic, neural network production scheduling, reliability analysis
 Home page Taiwan
 2004-11
Philip Limbourg
 Studium der Informatik an der Universität Dortmund. Hauptarbeitsgebiete: Zuverlässigkeitstechnik, Optimierung von Zuverlässigkeitsstrukture, Multikriterielle Optimierungsverfahren, Evolutionäre Algorithmen
 Home Page Germany
 2004-08
Hongbo Liu
alternate email here		 I am from Department of Computer Science, Dalian University of Technology, China. I am interested in PSO. Currently I try to explore the dynamics of PSO(s). My preliminary works indicate it seems chaos theory could help us to better understand PSO. Some online papers: Fuzzy Adaptive Turbulent PSO, Role of Chaos in Swarm Intelligence -A Preliminary Analysis China 2006-04
Dan Loughlin I am a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at North Carolina State University Home Page 2003-04
Morten Løvbjerg I am currently a student at The University of Aarhus, Denmark.. My major study area is computer science and my minor economics. Home Page 2001-04
Martin Macaš PhD Student, Dep. of Cybernetics, Faculty of Electrical Engineering,Czech Technical University in Prague. Interests: Swarm Intelligence, Patter Recognition, Nature-inspired Computing, Signal Processing Home Page 
The Czech Republic
 2008-09
Andrea MASSA
  Prof. Massa is the director of the ELEDIA Research Center at the University of Trento and Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Engineering.
He is a member of the IEEE Society, of the PIERS Technical Committee, of the Inter-University Research Center for Interactions Between Electromagnetic Fields and Biological Systems (ICEmB) and Italian representative in the general assembly of the European Microwave Association (EuMA). His research work since 1992 has been principally on electromagnetic direct and inverse scattering, microwave imaging, optimization techniques, wave propagation in presence of nonlinear media, wireless communications and applications of electromagnetic fields to telecommunications, medicine and biology.
Prof. Massa serves as an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation.
 Home Page Italy
 2011-09
Jörn Mehnen
 Dortmund University. Application of CI-methods for evolutionary surface reconstruction, evolutionary optimization of deep drilling strategies for mold temperature control.
 Home Page Germany
 2004-08
Ramin Mehran Digital Control and Advanced Automation Lab.,K.N.Toosi University of Technology, Tehran. Home Page Iran 2006-11
Rui Mendes
(altern. email)		 His current interests are biologically inspired computation, which includes swarm intelligence and emergent computation. At this moment, his research is focused on Particle Swarm Optimization. He is mainly concerned with new
constriction coefficients, the use of new social neighborhood topologies and births, deaths, and migration.		 Home Page, Portugal 2001-06
Victor Méndez Muñoz Ingeniero en Informática, Dpto. Informática e Ingeniería de Sistemas (DIIS)
Universidad de Zaragoza (unizar), España. "PSO-Grid Data Replication Service"		 Home Page Spain 2007-05
Daniel Merkle Universität Leipzig, Fakultät für Mathematik und Informatik, Institut für Informatik Home Page Germany 2005-12
Mohammad Reza Meybodi Profesor. Research interests: Parallel Algorithms, Learning Systems, Software Engineering, Soft Computing, Neural Networks, Grid Computing. Example of paper: Hamidi, M. and Meybodi, M. R., "Improving Particle Swarm Optimization using Open Cellular Learning Automata", Proceedings of the second  Joint  Congress on Fuzzy and Intelligent Systems,  Malek Ashtar University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, 28-30 October, 2008 Home Page, Iran 2009-05
Vladimiro Henrique Barrosa Pinto de Miranda INESC Porto - Institute for Systems and Computer Engineering of Porto. Director. Full Professor, Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto, Portugal
 Home Page, Portugal

 2012-05
Chilukuri Mohan (altern. email) Professor, Dept. of Electrical Eng. and Computer Science, Syracuse University. Previous work on PSO (with Ender Ozcan) involved mathematical analysis of particle trajectories. Current work (with Buthainah Al-Kazemi) focuses on discrete versions of the PSO algorithm. Other research: evolutionary algorithms (focus: the development of new recombination operators), neural networks (focus: adaptive network architectures), and bioinformatics. Home Page 2001-10-09
Sildomar Takahashi Monteiro Doctoral Candidate in the Department of Mechano-Micro Engineering at the Tokyo Institute of Technology. Home Page Japan 2006-10
Marco Antonio Montes de Oca Roldán PhD student in Applied Sciences.Institut de Recherches Interdisciplinaires et de Développements en Intelligence Artificielle (IRIDIA).Université Libre de Bruxelles.  Brussels, Belgium. Home Page  Belgium 2006-05
Jacqueline Moore Auburn University, Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering. Home Page, USA
 2003-01
Sanaz Mostaghim
 University of Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany. Research Interest: Particle Swarm Optimization, Multi-Objective Particle Swarm Optimization (MOPSO), Parallel PSO, Parallel MOPSO, MOPSO on Grid, Evolutionary Algorithms, Visualization of MOPSO and PSO, Self-organized parallel PSO, Organic Computing Home Page  Germany
 2009-10
Irina Munteanu "Politehnica" University of Bucharest, Romania Home Page 2002-04
Bart Naudts Research interests 
Theory of evolutionary algorithms, Bio-informatics 
 Probabilistic modeling using Bayesian networks 		 Home Page, Belgium 2002-09
Jakub Niwa
 I am student of Westpomeranian University of Technology in Szczecin, Poland in Department of Computer Science. I'm working on artificial intelligence and swarm algorithms and their applications in business and engineering. I have invented new swam metaheuristic that greatly outperforms standard PSO and possibly will be presented at icaisc.eu. Home Page, Poland
 2011-11
José M. García-Nieto Department of Languages and Computer Sciences, University of Málaga (Spain). PhD Thesis dissertation entitled "Emergent Optimization: Design and Applications in Telecommunications and Bioinformatics" (22th Feb, 2013). Presentation slides. Home Page  Spain 2013-04
Giacomo OLIVERI
 He received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in Telecommunications Engineering and the PhD degree in Space Sciences and Engineering from the University of Genoa, Italy, in 2003, 2005, and 2009 respectively. Since 2008, Dr. Oliveri is a member of the ELEDIA Research Center at the University of Trento, Italy. His research work is mainly focused on cognitive radio systems, electromagnetic direct and inverse problems, and antenna array design and synthesis.
Home Page Italy
 2011-09
S. N. Omkar Computational Intelligence Lab, Department of Aerospace Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. Paper:"Vector evaluated particle swarm optimization (VEPSO) for multi objective design optimization of composite structure" Home Page, India 2008-05
Mahamed G. H. Omran
 He is currently an Assistant Professor in the Computer Science department at the Gulf University for Science & Technology, Kuwait. He received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees with Honors in Computer Engineering from Kuwait University, State of Kuwait, in 1998 and 2000, respectively. He completed his Ph.D. in the Department of Computer Science at University of Pretoria, South Africa, in April 2005.
His current research interest is in the area of meta-heuristics and operational research. In addition, he is interested in the area of data clustering, unsupervised image classification and color image quantization. He has more than 45 publications in these fields.		 Home Page, Kuwait
 2011-05
Godfrey Onwubolu
  Ph.D. Professor and Chair of Engineering Department of Engineering, The University of the South Pacific
PO Box 1168, Suva , Fiji
Co-author of the  new book, "New Optimization Techniques in Engineering"  (in print, Springer-Verlag, 2003). He applied TRIBES (a parameter free PSO) to combinatorial optimization problems such as Flowshop Scheduling.
2003-04
C. O. Ourique, J. E. Ourique
 Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Departamento de Engenharia Química
Programa de Pós-Graduação em Engenharia Química, Campus Universitário - Lagoa Nova, Natal,rasil B
2003-01
Lisa Osadciw Assistant Professor at Syracuse University, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, NY. Research interests: Sensor management algorithms and approaches, System design and architectures for low power multi-sensor systems, Signal design for low power RF sensors. Home Page USA 2006-05
Venkata Swaroop Pappala
 Graduated in Electrical & Electronics Engineering from Nagarjuna University, India and then completed his MSc. in Power & Automation Engineering from Universität Duisburg Essen, Germany. He is currently pursuing his PhD at the Institute of electrical power systems, Universität Duisburg Essen.
Research Interests: Global Search Algorithms, Particle Swarm Optimization,  Optimization under Uncertainty, Uncertainty Modelling, Applications of CI Techniques to Power Systems Applications.
 Home Page Germany
 2010-05
Ender Özcan Assist. Prof., Dept. of Computer Engineering, Yeditepe University, Istanbul, Turkey. Previous work on PSO involved in the analysis of particle trajectories. Current work involves in PSO for multimodal optimization. Other research interests: evolutionary algorithms (new representations,genetic operators), timetabling (scheduling), bioinformatics, game playing,NLP. Home Page 2006-02
Ulrich Paquet PhD student in Machine Learning, Cambridge University. Research interests: Machine Learning, in particular Bayesian methods with Markov chain Monte Carlo simulations, Boosting, and the use of weighted data in Inference. Home Page UK 2006-03
Konstantinos Parsopoulos Konstantinos E. Parsopoulos received his dipl. in Mathematics 
in 1998 from the Department of Mathematics of the University of Patras, with speciality in Computational Mathematics and Informatics. He received his M.Sc. degree on Mathematics of Computers and Decision Making in 2001 from the departments of Mathematics and Computer Engineering & Informatics of the University of Patras. He is currently a Ph.D. student at the Department of Mathematics of the University of Patras. His scientific interests include Stochastic Optimization algorithms, Swarm Intelligence (specially PSO), Numerical Solving of Nonlinear Systems and applications of the Topological Degree theory. He is a member of the University of Patras Artificial Intelligence Research  Center (UPAIRC).		 Home Page 2010-11
Jorge Peña I am PhD student in Applied Mathematics at the Institut de Mathématiques Appliquées (IMA, Université de Lausanne, Switzerland) under the supervision of Prof. Henri Volken. I study mathematical and computational models of the evolution of cooperation in human societies. Home Page 2011-06
Riccardo Poli
 Professor at University of Essex, Department of Computer Science.  Principal Investigator of the eXtended Particle Swarm XPS optimisation project (2004-10). PSO papers: "Understanding particle swarm optimisation by evolving problem landscapes", "Extending particle swarm optimisation via genetic programming" Home Page UK
 2005-03
James Pugh Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. I'm interested in exploring how PSO can be used for unsupervised learning in robotics and in finding commonalities between the virtual search in PSO and real search tasks using real-world robots. Home Page Switzerland 2006-04
Mark Richards Student at at Brigham Young University. His thesis was about "Improving PSO"
2004-12-27
Pablo Rabanal
 Working as Dr. Assistant Professor at Sistemas Informáticos y Computación Department of the Faculty of Computer Science in the Complutense University of Madrid, Spain. Member of the Testing and Performance Evaluation Group.
Research interests: heuristic methods, formal methods, software testing, and web services. 		Home Page, Spain
 2012-06
Lekshmana Ramesh I am Working As Assistant Professor in Dr.MGR University, Pursuing Research in Jadavpur University,India. My Area of Work is  "PSO in Distribution System Meter Placement fro Monitoring and Control". I am the Chairman of IET-UK Younger Member section ,Chennai Network ,India. Home Page India 2008-01
Vittorini Ramos
 PhD in Sciences of Engineering (Patterns of Self-Organization in Biological Inspired Computation) IST-Technical University of Lisbon.
 Home Page Portugal
 2005-02
Jacques Riget  Computer Science Department, University of Aarhus, Denmark
 Home Page
 2001
Jacob Robinson
Home Page USA
 2003-01
Paolo ROCCA
 Paolo Rocca  is currently an Assistant Professor at the Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science (University of Trento) and a member of the ELEDIA Research Center. He is the author/co-author of over 100 peer reviewed papers on international journals and conferences.
His main interests are in the framework of antenna array synthesis and design, electromagnetic inverse scattering, and optimization techniques for electromagnetics. He serves as an Associate Editor of the IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters.
 Home Page Italy
 2011-09
Marko Antonio Rodriguez I am a Ph.D. student in Computer Science at the University of California at Santa Cruz  and a Philosophy Ph.D. student at the Free University of Brussels in Belgium. My interests lie in collective-intelligence algorithms for societal-scale decision support systems. I currently hold an appointment at Los Alamos National Labratory  researching analysis algorithms for large-scale networks. Home Page USA 2006-07
Bart I. Rylander
 Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, School of Engineering, University of Portland
 Home Page USA
 2003-01
Ferat Sahin Rochester Institut of Technology. Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) for Bayesian Network Generation Home Page USA 2006-12
J. Salerno


Ayed Aytallah Salman Assistant Professor. Electrical & Computer Engineering Department, Kuwait University. Research Interests: Application of evolutionary computations (e.g., Genetic Algorithms, Genetic Programming, Ant Colony Systems, Particle Swarm Optimization) in data mining, web mining and multi-objective optimization; E-Commerce. Neural Network, Machine learning. Home Page, Kuwait 2003-01
Amit K. Saxena Prof. and Head Department of Computer Science and Information Technology, Guru Gashidas University, Bilaspur C.G. India 2007-09
Karlheinz Schmitt
 Dortmund University
 Home Page Germany
 2004-08
Luk Schoofs Research assistant (member of the ISLab), Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Antwerp Home Page, Belgium 2002-09
Kai Sedlaczek  Institute B of Mechanics, University of Stuttgart. Particle Swarm Optimization of Mechanical Systems
Home Page Germany
 2004-10
Parthasarathi Sensarma
 Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur
 Home Page India
 2003-01
Mehmet Şevkli
 Fatih University, Industrial Engineering Department, Istanbul
 Home Page Turkey
 2006-05
Yuhui Shi
Home Page 2003-04
Ana Paula Neves F. da Silva
 University of Coimbra. Member of: Evolutionary and Complex Systems Group. My research interests: Evolutionary Computation, Biologically Inspired Computation.
Home Page Portugal
 2004-08
Arlindo Ferreira da Silva
 I'm now a member of the  Artificial Intelligence Group of the Center of Informatics and Systems of the University of Coimbra (CISUC), more specifically working with Evolutionary Computation Subgroup. 
In my current work, I'm trying to apply evolutionary techniques to the development of intelligent controllers for autonomous agents. 
Home Page Portugal
 2006-03
Mehmet Sevkli PhD. Institute of Science & Technology, Department of Industrial Engineering, Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul. CV here.  Working on PSO for Facility location problems Home Page Turkey 2007-05
Rimvydas Simutis Professor at Process Control Department, Kaunas University of Technology. Part-time professor at Department of Informatics, Vilnius University, Kaunas Faculty. Research Interest: Computational intelligence for biological, technical and financial systems. Home Page Lithuania 2006-05
Mark C. Sinclair His research interests, as a member of the Photonic Networks Laboratory, include telecommunications network design, evolutionary algorithms, object technology and software agents.  Home Page 2000-08
Ruba Skaik
 Department of Computer Science, University of Pretoria,Pretoria 0002, South Africa Home Page, South Africa
 2003-01
Renata Smolikova
 Computational Intelligence Laboratory,University of Louisville,KY, USA. Research interests: -Biomedical image and signal processing, analysis, and interpretation -Application of computational, statistical, and mathematical methodologies to biomedical problems -Pattern recognition -Neural networks -Fuzzy theory  -Numerical analysis  -Modern algebra -Discrete mathematics
 Home Page USA
 2003-04
Tiago Sousa
 Instituto Politécnico de Castelo Branco. Member of: Evolutionary and Complex Systems Group. My research interests: Particle Swarm Intelligence, Data Mining.
 Home Page Portugal
 2004-08
Jaroslaw Sobieszczanski-Sobieski
 NASA Langley Research Center, Analytical and Computational Methods Branch, USA.
 Home Page,USA
 2003-01
William M. Spears His current interests are evolutionary algorithms, recombination and mutation theory, self-adaptive recombination, efficient speciation methods, Markov chain analyses, neural networks, simulated annealing, machine learning, operations research, Boolean satisfiability, No-Free-Lunch theorems, and 1968-1972 Chevy Novas. He was the moderator of GA-List from 1994 to 1997.  Home Page 2006/03
Bhavani Sudha (Ms)
 I am doing PhD on investigating different techniques such as Genetic Algorithms and Particle Swarm Optimisation for optimisation of Cancer Chemotherapy. We (me and my supervisors) submitted a paper titled "Optimising Cancer Chemotherapy using Genetic Algorithms and Particle Swarm Optimisation" to PPSN conference 2004. Home Page UK
 2004-05
P. N. Suganthan Assistant Professor of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Division of Control & Instrumentation Home Page Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 2004-12
Shamik Sural Assistant Professor, School of Information Technology, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur. Research interests: Information and System Security, Image and Video Processing, Mobile and Wireless Networks. Home Page India 2006-03
Ramasamy Kanniayan Suresh Assistant Professor, Department of Production Engineering, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Etimadai, Coimbatore -641105, India.
Presently (2005-11), I am applying a hybrid version of Discrete Particle Swarm Optimization algorithm for solving Scheduling Problems.		 Home Page, India 2005-11
Phillip Tann University of Sunderland, School of Engineering and Advanced Technology, Centre for Research into Evolutionary and Intelligent Methods
Home Page, UK 2002-09
Muhammad Rizwan Tanweer Hamdard University , Karachi · Faculty of Engineering Science and Technology
 Home Page, Pakistan 2017-08
Fatih Tasgetiren
 Assistant Professor, Fatih University,Management Department, 34500 Buyukcekmece, Istanbul. I have been recently working on the PSO to apply it to the production scheduling problems. I have already applied the binary PSO to the simple, single level lot sizing problem. Results are competitive with the Wagner-Whitin optimal results. I have already applied the PSO to the flowshop scheduling problem and the single machine weighted/unweighted tardiness problems using the benchmarks problems in the literature Home Page Turkey
 2006-09
Tejaswini Objective: To find a challenging career in the area of SOFTWARE ENGINEERING with focus on design and development of Networking and Distributed Systems Applications Home Page
Albuquerque, New Mexico, U.S.A.		 2000-08
John Tindle The Institution of Electrical Engineers Professional Group C3 - Information Systems and Networks
 and  IEE North Eastern Centre Electronics Computing and Control Section EC&C		 Home Page, UK 2002-09
Sonia Tindle University of Sunderland, School of Engineering and Advanced Technology, Centre for Research into Evolutionary and Intelligent Methods  UK 2002-09
Ting Tiew On
He is master student from Faculty of Engineering, Multimedia University, Malaysia.  His area of research includes improvement of PSO algorithm to a wide range of benchmarks functions and its application in Efficient Power Distribution (Economic Dispatch and Unit Commitment problem).  He is currently under the supervision of a great thinker of the age, namely Professor M.V.C. Rao (supervisor) and ambitious lecturer, Mr. Loo Chu Kiong (co-supervisor).  He hopes to further extend his work in solving Multiobjective problems using PSO.
   Malaysia
 2003-04-24
Supiya Ujjin
 The objective of my PhD is to investigate different techniques such as Genetic Algorithms and Particle Swarm Optimisation for providing personalised recommendations. Home Page, UK
 2003-05-05
Julio Valdés Research Officer, Integrated Reasoning, NRC Institute for Information Technology, Ottawa. Areas of interest: artificial intelligence (mathematical foundations of uncertainty processing and inexact reasoning, knowledge engineering, expert systems and machine learning), digital image and signal processing, pattern recognition, virtual reality, soft computing (fuzzy logic, neural networks, evolutionary algorithms, probabilistic reasoning, rough sets), data mining, data analysis in general and hybrid systems. He has applied PSO in combination with classical optimization to build virtual reality spaces (paper downloadable from his Home Page. Home Page Canada 2006-04
Frans Van den Bergh Department of Computer Science, University of Pretoria, South Africa. 
Interests: PSO convergence characteristics, neural networks, data 
compression & computer graphics. 		 Home Page
Magalieskruin, South Africa		 2002-07
Kalyan Veeramachaneni
 Graduate Research Assistant, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY. Research Interests: Evolutionary Algorithms, Multi-sensor Intelligent Systems
Home Page USA
 2004-08
Ganesh Kumar Venayagamoorthy
I am currently an Assistant Professor with the  Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,  University of Missouri-Rolla, USA.  Home Page South Africa, USA
 2006-10
Gehrard Venter
 		My Ph.D. research topics concentrated on the use of response surface methodology and fuzzy set theory in structural optimization problems with uncertainty. Home Page USA
 2003-01
Dan Ventura
 		Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Department at Brigham Young University. His main areas of interest include neural networks, machine learning, evolutionary computation and quantum computation and quantum computational learning. Home Page USA
 2004-12
Jakob Vesterstrøm  Computer Science Department, University of Aarhus, Denmark
2000
Luís Nunes Vicente Associate Professor at the Department of Mathematics of the School of Sciences and Technology of the University of Coimbra. Member of the Numerical Analysis and Optimization Group of the Centre for Mathematics. Home Page Portugal 2006-10
P. Visalakshi I am  working in the Department of CSE, PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore, Tamilnadu, India. I have worked on my thesis titled, "Certain Investigations on Particle Swarm Optimization Techniques for solving the Multiprocessor Scheduling Problems". I have worked on Simple PSO, PSO with dynamically varying inertia, Hybrid PSO, Parallel PSO and Orthogonal PSO for solving the multiprocessor scheduling problem.
 India
 2010-03
Michael N. Vrahatis Department of Mathematics and University of Patras Artificial Intelligence Research Center (UPAIRC) Home Page 2002-04
Mark Wachowiak
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 He is a postdoctoral fellow at the Robarts Research Institute in London, Canada.  He earned the doctorate degree in Computer Engineering and Computer Science from the University of Louisville in 2002.  He is currently working in soft tissue modelling, surgery and therapy simulation, computer-assisted therapeutic procedures, and numerical and stochastic optimization.
Address Imaging Laboratories, Robarts Research Institute, 100 Perth Drive, London, ON  N6A 5K8, CANADA
 Home Page Canada
 2004-04
Martin R. Weikart Marty's academic interests include digital signal processing, fuzzy logic, and optimization methodology. He is currently pursuing a Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering. His thesis work is attempting to confirm an optimum solution for minimum patient exposure time during application of radiation to tumors. In addition, he has extensively reviewed particle swarm as a genetic algorithm for optimization. Home Page
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USA		 1999/06
Xiao-Feng Xie
 Institute of Microelectronics, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, P.R.China.
Evolutionary & learning algorithms, such as genetic algorithms (GAs), particle swarm optimizer (PSO), differential evolution (DE), hybrid algorithms, etc., for nonlinear programming problems and the relations to self-organization of complex system Framework for the Technology CAD (TCAD) approach for ultra-small transistor design and optimization. Qualify analysis for SPICE models 		Home Page China
 2006-03
Keiichirou Yasuda Department of Electrical Engineering,Faculty of Engineering, Tokyo Metropolitan University,Energy Engineering Laboratory
1-1 Minami Oosawa, Hachioji, Tokyo, 192-0397 Japan. Research fields: System Engineering, Power System Engineering
 Home Page Japan 2003-01
Amr M. Youssef Concordia Institute for Information Systems Engineering, Montreal. Associate Professor. Research interests: Cryptography and Network Security, Sequence Design for FH-CDMA, Software Protection Information Hiding, Speech Recognition and Synthesis,Hardware  Implementation of Cryptographic Algorithms. Applied PSO to cryptography. Home Page Canada 2006-02
Mengjie Zhang
 Professor. School of Engineering and Computer Science, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealanc. His research is focused in Evolutionary Computation especially Genetic Programming and Particle Swarm Optimisation, Intelligent and Evolutionary Computer Vision, and Data Mining and Machine learning.
Home Page, New Zealand
 2012-04
Wen Zhang
 I have successfully solved the power problem by APSO. My university (Shandong University) is located at Jinan,Shandong province.
2002-12
Yufeng Zheng
 I am a postdoctoral Research Associate of Psychological and Brain Sciences Dept. at University of Louisville (UofL), Louisville, KY.  I am working on several research projects about pattern recognition and image fusion.  In 2002, I taught Digital Image Processing and Computer Graphics at Dept. of Computer Engineering and Computer Science, University  of Louisville
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2003-12
Jacek M. Zurada He is the S.T. Fife Alumni Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky. He is the co-editor of the 2000 MIT Press volume Knowledge-Based Neurocomputing, and the author of the 1992 PWS text Introduction to Artificial Neural Systems, contributor to the 1994 and 1995 Ablex volumes Progress in Neural Networks, and co-editor of the 1994 IEEE Press volume Computational Intelligence: Imitating Life. He is the author or co-author of more than 180 journal and conference papers in the area of neural networks, analog and digital VLSI circuits. Since 1998 Dr. Zurada has been the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks.
Home Page  Canada
 2003-12