Leonardo Vanneschi   

Assistant Professor  (Ricercatore)

 

 

 

Contacts


Dipartimento di Informatica Sistemistica e Comunicazione (D.I.S.Co.)
Building U14, Office number 2004
viale Sarca, 336
University of Milano-Bicocca
20126 Milan, Italy


Tel.:  +39 02 64487874
Fax:   +39 02 64487839
Email: vanneschi <AT> disco <DOT> unimib <DOT> it

 

 

 


Research Interests

 

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Machine Learning
  • Soft Computing
  • Data Mining
  • Complex Systems
  • Evolutionary Computation
  • Parallel and Distributed Computing
  • Distributed Systems

 

 

Education

 

  • 2004: PhD in Computer Science at the University of Lausanne (Switzerland).
  • 1996: University Degree (“Laurea”) summa cum laude in Computer Science at the University of Pisa (Italy).

 

 

Honors and Awards

 

  • June 2007: “Best Paper Award” of the conference GECCO 2007, "Genetic Algorithms" track, for the paper “Fitness-Proportional Negative Slope Coefficient as a Hardness Measure for Genetic Algorithm”, R. Poli, L. Vanneschi.

 

  • June 2006: “Best Paper Award” of the conference GECCO 2006, "Biology Applications" track, for the paper “Genetic Programming for Human Oral Bioavailability of Drugs”, F. Archetti, S. Lanzeni, E. Messina, L. Vanneschi.

 

  • April 2006: “Best Paper Award” of the conference EUROGP 2006 for the paper “Using Subtree Crossover Distance to Investigate Genetic Programming Dynamics”, L. Vanneschi, S. Gustafson, G. Mauri.

 

  • June 2005:  "Excellence Award" by the Science Faculty of the University of Lausanne for my PhD thesis.

 

  • April 2005: “Best Paper Award” of the conference EUROGP 2005 for the paper “Operator-based distance for genetic programming: Subtree crossover distance”, S. Gustafson, L. Vanneschi.

 

  • July 2003: Nomination for the “Best Paper Award” of the conference GECCO 2003 for the paper “Difficulty of unimodal and multimodal landscapes in genetic programming”, L. Vanneschi, M. Tomassini, M. Clergue, P. Collard.

 

  • September 2002: “Best Poster Award” of the conference PPSN 2002 for the paper “Experimental Investigation of three distributed genetic programming models”, M. Tomassini, L. Vanneschi, F. Fernandez, G. Galeano.

 

  • July 2002: “Best Graduate Student Paper Award” of the conference GECCO 2002 for the paper “A study of Fitness Distance Correlation and problem difficulty for genetic programming”, L. Vanneschi, M. Tomassini.

 

 

Event Organisations

 

  • July 2010: Program Chair of GECCO 2010, Genetic Programming track, Portland, USA.
  • April 2009: Program Chair of EuroGP 2009, University of Tuebingen (Germany).
  • September 2008: Program Chair of WIVACE 2008, Venice.
  • April 2008: Program Chair of EuroGP 2008, University of Naples
  • September 2008: Program Chair of WIVACE 2007, Ragusa.
  • September 2007: Program Chair and Invited Tutor at the first Italian summer school on Artificial Life and Evolutionary Computation (SECEVITA 2007), Ragusa.
  • Publicity chair EuroGP 2007, Valencia (Spain).
  • Publicity chair WIVACE 2006, Siena.
  • Local organiser of the first ItalianWorkshop on Evolutionary Computation (Giornata di Studio Italiana sul Calcolo Evoluzionistico, GSICE 2005), affiliated with the 9th Congress of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence, AI*IA 2005, University of Milano-Bicocca (Italy).
  • Member of the Local Organisation Committee of the 8th European Conference on Genetic Programming, EuroGP 2005, University of Lausanne (Switzerland).

 

 

 

Teaching (in Italian language)

 

 

Laurea Magistrale  in Informatica

 

 

 

Laurea (Triennale) in Informatica

 

 

Laurea in Scienza dei Materiali (periodo 2007-2009)

 

·        Complementi di Informatica

 

 

Dottorato in Informatica (anno 2008)

 

 

 

 

Links

 

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Title of the thesis: “Theory and Practice for Efficient Genetic Programming”,

"Excellence Award" by the Science Faculty of the University of Lausanne.

 

 

Pictures