Prof. Marco Dorigo

Marco Dorigo received his Ph.D. in Electronic Engineering from Politecnico di Milano, Italy, in 1992. From 1992 to 1993, he was a Research Fellow at the International Computer Science Institute, Berkeley, CA. Since 1993, he has been with the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), where in 1996 he became a tenured researcher of the F.R.S.–FNRS, the Belgian National Fund for Scientific Research. He is currently the Director of IRIDIA, the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory of the ULB, and a Research Director at the F.R.S.–FNRS. His research interests include swarm intelligence, swarm robotics, and stochastic algorithms for discrete optimization. His work is highly cited, with more than 160,000 citations and an h-index of 119. Prof. Dorigo is the Founding Editor of the Swarm Intelligence journal, a member of the Advisory Board of Science Robotics, and serves as Associate Editor or Editorial Board Member for several journals in computational intelligence and adaptive systems. He is a Fellow of AAAI, EurAI, and IEEE. His international distinctions include the Marie Curie Excellence Award in 2003, the Dr. A. De Leeuw-Damry-Bourlart Award in Applied Sciences in 2005, the Cajastur International Prize for Soft Computing (“Mamdani Prize”) in 2007, the IEEE Frank Rosenblatt Award in 2015, and the IEEE Evolutionary Computation Pioneer Award in 2016. He is also the recipient of an ERC Advanced Grant from the European Research Council, awarded in 2010.