2014
SecDef Organizers
- Anna I Esparcia-Alcázar, S2 Grupo, Spain
- Frank W. Moore, University of Alaska Anchorage, USA
Organizers' bios
Anna I Esparcia-Alcázar is Head of R&D at S2 Grupo. She holds a degree in Electrical Engineering from the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia (UPV), Spain, and a PhD from the University of Glasgow, UK. She has ample experience both in industry and academia. For the past 8 years she has been actively involved in the organisation of the two main conferences in the field of Evolutionary Computation, evostar and GECCO. She is Senior Member of the IEEE, Member of the ACM and elect member of the Executive Committee of SIGEVO.
Frank Moore is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of Alaska Anchorage. He has taught computer science and engineering for the past 16 years. He also has over six years of industry experience developing software for a wide range of military projects. His recent NASA-funded research (patent pending) used evolutionary computation to optimize transforms that outperform wavelets for lossy image compression and reconstruction. He has received over $750,000 in research funding and has published over 80 technical papers and reports. Dr. Moore is a Senior Member of ACM and a Member of IEEE.
