Kenneth Alan De Jong (born 1944) [1] is an American computer scientist and professor emeritus at George Mason University. [2] He is one of the pioneers in evolutionary computation. [3] [4]
De Jong was a student of John Henry Holland at the University of Michigan, where he completed a Ph.D. in 1975 with a dissertation on genetic algorithms. [1] [5] He became a faculty member at George Mason University in 1984. [2]
He is the author of the textbook Evolutionary Computation: A Unified Approach (MIT Press, 2006), [6] and was the founding editor-in-chief of the journal Evolutionary Computation, [7] which published its first volume in 1993. [8]
De Jong was the 2005 recipient of the Evolutionary Computation Pioneer Award of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society. [4] He is also the recipient of a lifetime achievement award of the Evolutionary Programming Society. [7] He was a distinguished speaker of the Association for Computing Machinery in 2014. [9]
De Jong (1975) performed an early systematic study of how varying parameters affected the GA's on-line and off-line search performance
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