ISIC 2014 Keynote Speaker

Gary B. Fogel

Affiliation: Natural Selection, Inc., U.S.

Tentative title: Computational Intelligence and Independent Computing, a Biological Systems Perspective

Short biography

Dr. Gary B. Fogel joined Natural Selection, Inc. in 1998 after completing the Ph.D. in biology from UCLA. His current research interests focus on the application of computational intelligence methods to problems in the biomedical sciences. These include biomarker discovery, sequence analysis, microRNA discovery, drug design, improved diagnosis, and biomedical pattern recognition. Dr. Fogel leads Natural Selection, Inc.'s efforts in biomedicine but also has led projects for industrial and defense related applications. Dr. Fogel is a Fellow of the IEEE and member of Sigma Xi. He currently serves as editor-in-chief of BioSystems and has served as an associate editor on six other journals. He co-edited a volume on Evolutionary Computation in Bioinformatics published in 2003 (Morgan Kaufmann) and Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics, published in 2008 (Wiley-IEEE Press). Dr. Fogel has assisted with many conferences and served as Conference Chair for the 2010 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, and Vice President for Conferences (2010-2013) for the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society. He is Finance Chair for the 2014 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence. Dr. Fogel has received several honors and awards, including the 2012 Sigma Xi San Diego Section Distinguished Scientist Award.