David B. Fogel

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Dr. David B. Fogel (born February 2, 1964), is a pioneer in evolutionary computation. Dr. Fogel received his Ph.D. in engineering from the University of California, San Diego in 1992. He is currently CEO of Natural Selection, Inc. He is probably best known for his research project, Blondie24, in which a machine evolved itself into an expert checkers player. Dr. Fogel was the founding editor-in-chief of the IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, and general chairman for the 2002 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence. He is currently editor-in-chief of BioSystems.

Dr. Fogel is a recipient of several awards and recognitions. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, and received the 2004 IEEE Kiyo Tomiyasu Technical Field Award. He is the author of six books and over 200 publications in evolutionary computing and neural networks. Dr. Fogel will be president of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society in 2008-2009.