Kalyanmoy Deb

Kalyanmoy Deb is currently Endowed Shelby Distinguished Professor at the Department of Computer Science, University of Alabama (UA), Tuascaloosa, USA. He was University Distinguished Professor and Koenig Endowed Chair Professor at Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering in Michigan State University, USA before joining UA. He received his Bachelor's degree from Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur in 1985 and Masters and Doctoral degrees from UA, Tuscaloosa, USA in 1989 and 1991, respectively. Prof. Deb's research interests are in evolutionary optimization and their application in multi-criterion optimization, modeling, and machine learning. He has been a visiting professor at various universities across the world including University of Skövde in Sweden, Aalto University in Finland, Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, and IITs in India. He was awarded IEEE Evolutionary Computation Pioneer Award for his sustained work in EMO, Infosys Prize, TWAS Prize in Engineering Sciences, CajAstur Mamdani Prize, Distinguished Alumni Award from IIT Kharagpur, Edgeworth-Pareto award, Bhatnagar Prize in Engineering Sciences, and Bessel Research award from Germany. He is fellow of ACM, ASME, and IEEE, and three Indian science and engineering academies. He has published over 680 research papers with Google Scholar citation of over 240,000 with h-index 150 until August 2026. He is in the editorial board on more than 10 major international journals. More information about his research contribution can be found from https://www.coin-lab.org and https://www.kdeb.us.

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