Hi!I'm Erkin Bahçeci, a sixth year student in Risto Miikkulainen's Neural Networks Research Group at UT Austin. My research interests are multi-agent search, neuroevolution, evolutionary computation, general game playing, and autonomous robots. I'm currently working on a multi-disciplinary project on competitive multi-agent search, modeling innovation search on dynamic fitness landscapes.
As for this project, besides better understanding evolvability in biological evolution, I'm also interested in evolvability from a computer science perspective. Gaining insight into evolvability has the potential to improve the performance and speed of evolutionary methods, which are widely used in computer science. Such insight could include finding out exactly what boosts or reduces evolvability, what makes a population in Avida to increase its evolvability due to evolutionary pressures, and whether general rules of thumb can be derived from these findings, to be applied elsewhere.
Oh, and yeah, that's my 3D reconstructed avatar (complete with Mohawk), ready to help the Avidians behave :)
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