John J. Grefenstette
Biographical Sketch
Dr. John Grefenstette is a Professor of Bioinformatics and Computational
Biology at George Mason University. Dr. Grefenstette received the
B.S. degree (with University Honors) in Mathematics and Philosophy from
Carnegie Mellon University in 1975 and the Ph.D. in Computer Science
from the University of Pittsburgh and 1980. He taught Computer Science
and Artificial Intelligence at Vanderbilt University from 1980 to 1986.
His program GENESIS was one of the first widely available genetic
algorithms software packages. He organized and served as the program
chairman for the first two International Conferences on Genetic
Algorithms. In 1986, Dr. Grefenstette became Head of the Machine
Learning Section at the Navy Center for Applied Research in Artificial
Intelligence at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington. In 1997,
he joined the Institute for Biosciences, Biotechnology and
Bioinformatics at George Mason University. He served as
Chair of the Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Program at GMU from 2002-2006.
Dr. Grefenstette was the founding Associate Editor for the journal
Evolutionary Computation, serves on the editorial board for the
journal Adaptive Behavior and has been Associate Editor for the
journal Machine Learning.
His current research projects include: bioinformatics analysis for agricultural genomics,
the PATOMICS gene patent database, and computational models of biological networks.
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