Name:Daniel Tauritz

Bio:

Daniel R. Tauritz is the COLSA Corporation Cyber Security and Information Assurance Endowed Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering at Auburn University (AU), AU’s Director for National Laboratory Relationships, the founding Head of AU’s Biomimetic Artificial Intelligence Research Group (BioAI Group), the founding director of AU’s Biomimetic National Security Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (BONSAI Lab), a cyber consultant for Sandia National Laboratories, and a Guest Scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). He received his Ph.D. in 2002 from Leiden University. His research interests include the design of generative hyper-heuristics, competitive coevolution, evolutionary algorithms for simulating molecular evolution, parameter control in evolutionary algorithms, and the application of artificial intelligence techniques in security and defense. He was granted a US patent for an artificially intelligent rule-based system to assist teams in becoming more effective by improving the communication process between team members.

Country:United States

Affiliation:Auburn University

Research interests:Evolutionary Computation, Cyber Security, Artificial Intelligence for National Security, Hyper-heuristics, Automated Algorithm Design, Molecular Evolution