Holger H. Hoos

Holger H. Hoos
Residence Canada
Alma mater Technische Universität Darmstadt
Doctoral advisor Wolfgang Bibel
Notable awards AAAI Fellow (2015) [1]

Holger H. Hoos is a German-Canadian computer scientist and a professor in the Computer Science Department at the University of British Columbia. His research interests are focused on empirical algorithmics with applications in artificial intelligence, bioinformatics and operations research.[2] In particular, he works on automated algorithm design and on stochastic local search algorithms. Since 2005, he is a Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI).

He wrote the book Stochastic Local Search: Foundations and Applications[3] (with Thomas Stützle), and his research is published widely in internationally leading journals and conference proceedings.[4][5] He also works in computer music, where he created the SALIERI music programming language and computer music system (with Thomas Helbich, Jürgen Kilian and Kai Renz) as well as GUIDO music notation (with Keith Hamel).

References

  1. ↑ AAAI FELLOWS
  2. ↑ https://www.cs.ubc.ca/people/holger-h-hoos
  3. ↑ Holger H. Hoos and Thomas Stützle, Stochastic Local Search: Foundations and Applications, Morgan Kaufmann / Elsevier, 2004.
  4. ↑ http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/indices/a-tree/h/Hoos:Holger_H=.html,
  5. ↑ https://scholar.google.ca/citations?user=l6c85tMAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao

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