Prof. Melanie Mitchell

Melanie Mitchell received a a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Michigan in 1990. Her dissertation work with Douglas Hofstadter was on cognitive modeling of analogy-making. She has held
faculty or research positions at the University of Michigan, the Santa Fe Institute (as Director of the Institute's Adaptive Computation Program), the Los Alamos National Laboratory, and the OGI School of Science and Engineering at the Oregon Health & Science University. She is currently Professor of Computer Science at Portland State University and External Professor at the Santa Fe Institute.
Dr. Mitchell has been the recipient of a University of Michigan Regents' Fellowship, a Fellowship in the Michigan Society of Fellows, and a 21st Century Research Award Grant from the J. S. McDonnell Foundation. She is a member of the Science Board of the Santa Fe Institute, an action editor for the Journal of Machine Learning Research, and a member of the editorial boards of Artificial Life, Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines, and Evolutionary
Intelligence.
Dr. Mitchell is the author of Analogy-Making as Perception (MIT Press, 1993), An Introduction to Genetic Algorithms (MIT Press, 1996), and Complexity: A Guided Tour (Oxford University Press, 2009). She is a co-editor of Adaptive Individuals in Evolving Populations: Models and Algorithms (Addison Wesley, 1996) and Perspectives on Adaptation in Natural and Artificial Systems (Oxford University Press, 2005). She is also the author of over 70 research papers in the fields of artificial intelligence, machine learning, evolutionary computation, cognitive science, and complex systems.