Education
  • 2011, PhD at University of Jyväskylä, Finland
  • 2006, MSc at Technical University of Bari, Italy
Academic career and teaching activities
  • 2021-         Associate Professor, University of Trento, Italy
  • 2018-2021 Tenure-track Assistant Professor (RTD-b), University of Trento, Italy
  • 2017-2018 Postdoc, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
  • 2013-2016 Postdoc, EPFL and University of Lausanne, Switzerland
  • 2012-2016 Postdoc, INCAS³, The Netherlands
Research interests

I'm interested in various aspects of AI and engineering, particularly in applications of evolutionary algorithms to robotics and (distributed) embedded systems.

My main research areas are:

  • Evolutionary Algorithms
  • Estimation of Distribution Algorithms
  • Multi-objective Optimization
  • Constrained Optimization
  • Memetic Computing
  • Swarm Intelligence
  • Machine Learning
  • Embedded Systems
  • Distributed Computing
  • Agent-based simulations
  • Network systems
  • Robotics
Memberships in societies and scientific committees
  • IEEE CIS Memetic Computing Emerging Technologies Task Force
  • COST Action ImAppNIO, Working Group “Practice-Driven Theory”
  • EURO Working Group on Stochastic Programming and Applications
  • EURO Working Group on Metaheuristics
  • EURO Working Group on Network Optimization
  • EURO Working Group on Continuous Optimization
  • EURO Working Group Data Science Meets Optimization
Awards and honours
  • EvoApplications Best Paper Award 2017
  • UKCI AWARENESS Best Paper Award 2012
  • IEEE CIS Outstanding Student-Paper Award 2011
Notes

Personal website: https://sites.google.com/site/giovanniiacca