University of Cape Town
Geoff Nitschke is head of the Evolutionary Machine Learning group and Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Science, School of Information Technology, University of Cape Town. He has been working in research on biologically inspired computational intelligence for over 15 years with over 100 publications in peer-reviewed journals, conference proceedings and edited volumes. His research has been supported by grants totalling approximately 20 million ZAR from national and international funding agencies. Geoff is a strong proponent of evolutionary computation and robotics, consistently presenting at key conferences such as Artificial Life (ALIFE), Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO), the IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (IEEE CEC) and the IEEE Symposium series on Computational Intelligence (IEEE SSCI). Geoff is also an IEEE senior member and associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence, Adaptive Behavior and Frontiers in Robotics and AI journals.
