Giovanni Iacca

Associate professor

Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science

Via Sommarive, 9 - 38123 Povo

tel. 0461 285220

giovanni.iacca[at]unitn [dot] it

Expertise:

Artificial life

Distributed systems

Embedded systems

Evolutionary algorithms

Heuristic optimization

Machine learning

Modeling and simulation

Multi-agent systems

Neural networks

Numerical optimization

Real-time computing

Wireless sensor networks

	Education
	2011, PhD at University of Jyväskylä, Finland 2006, MSc at Technical University of Bari, Italy
	Academic career and teaching activities
	2021- Associate Professor at University of Trento, Italy 2018-2021 Assistant Professor at University of Trento, Italy 2017-2018 Postdoc at RWTH Aachen University, Germany 2013-2016 Postdoc at EPFL and University of Lausanne, Switzerland 2012-2016 Postdoc at INCAS³, The Netherlands 2006-2009 Software Engineer at Sintesi SCpA, Italy
	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
	Conferences and lectures
	Co-organizer of EvoGeneral, Evostar, Leipzig, Apr 2019 Co-organizer of the EIEHSCoEvo Workshop, GECCO, Kyoto, Jul 2018 Co-organizer of the EIEHSCoEvo Workshop, GECCO, Berlin, Jul 2017 Co-organizer of EvoComNet, Evostar, Parma, Apr 2018 Co-organizer of EvoKnow, Evostar, Parma, Apr 2018 Co-organizer of EvoComNet, Evostar, Amsterdam, Apr 2017 Co-organizer of EvoKnow, Evostar, Amsterdam, Apr 2017 Co-organizer of the Workshop on Memetic Computing, IEEE SSCI, Orlando, Dec 2014
	Notes
	Personal website: https://sites.google.com/site/giovanniiacca