Keynote Speakers
Prof. Risto Miikkulainen
Professor of Computer Science and Neuroscience, the University of Texas at Austin
Director of the UTCS Neural Networks Research Group
VP of AI Research, Cognizant AI Labs
Prof. Risto received an M.S. in Engineering from the Helsinki University of Technology (now Aalto University) in 1986, and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from UCLA in 1990. His current research focuses on methods and applications of neuro-evolution, as well as neural network models of natural language processing and vision; he is an author of over 500 articles in these research areas.