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A.E. (Guszti) Eiben is a professor of Artificial Intelligence on the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. He is one of the early birds of evolutionary computing in Europe (who literally wrote the book) and an expert in evolutionary robotics.
His main research concerns robots that can reproduce, evolve, and learn. His work is published in top journals (Nature, Science) and extensively covered by popular media (e.g., WIRED, New Scientist) in 10 countries.
His long-term goal is to demonstrate that artificial evolution can develop artificial intelligence and to understand the evolutionary interplay between the body and the brain.
Ancillary activities
- Evolution 2000 | Amstelveen | Bestuurder | 2017-12-24 - present
Ancillary activities are updated daily
Keywords
- Q Science
- Evolutionary Computing
- Adaptive Systems
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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Unconventional Hexacopters via Evolution and Learning: Performance Gains and New Insights
Muff, J. R., Ito, K., Ang, E. H. W., Miras, K. & Eiben, A. E., 2026, Applications of Evolutionary Computation: 29th European Conference, EvoApplications 2026, Held as Part of EvoStar 2026, Toulouse, France, April 8–10, 2026, Proceedings, Part I. García-Sánchez, P., Díaz Álvarez, J. & Murphy, A. (eds.). Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, Vol. 1. p. 69-84 16 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; vol. 16524 LNCS)(EvoApplications: International Conference on the Applications of Evolutionary Computation (Part of EvoStar); vol. 2026).Research output: Chapter in Book / Report / Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Academic › peer-review
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Active Robot Curriculum Learning from Online Human Demonstrations
Hou, M., Hindriks, K., Eiben, A. E. & Baraka, K., 2025, 2025 20th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI): [Proceedings]. IEEE/ACM, p. 810-818 9 p. (ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction).Research output: Chapter in Book / Report / Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Academic › peer-review
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Fertility During Learning in Evolutionary Robot Systems
Di Matteo, J. M., Weissl, O. & Eiben, A., 2025, GECCO '25: Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference. Ochoa, G. (ed.). Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, p. 131-139 9 p.Research output: Chapter in Book / Report / Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Academic › peer-review
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Robot Policy Transfer with Online Demonstrations: An Active Reinforcement Learning Approach
Hou, M., Hindriks, K., Eiben, A. E. & Baraka, K., 2025, 2025 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA): [Proceedings]. Ott, C., Admoni, H., Behnke, S., Bogdan, S., Bolopion, A., Choi, Y., Ficuciello, F., Gans, N., Gosselin, C., Harada, K., Kayacan, E., Kim, H. J., Leutenegger, S., Liu, Z., Maiolino, P., Marques, L., Matsubara, T., Mavromatti, A., Minor, M., O'Kane, J., Park, H. W., Park, H.-W., Rekleitis, I., Renda, F., Ricci, E., Riek, L. D., Sabattini, L., Shen, S., Sun, Y., Wieber, P.-B., Yamane, K. & Yu, J. (eds.). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., p. 7392-7398 7 p. (Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation).Research output: Chapter in Book / Report / Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Academic › peer-review
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Size Matters: Variable-Length Bones in Evolvable Modular Robots
Stork, M. A., de Regt, R., Nguyen, D. T. R. & Eiben, A. E., 2025, GECCO '25 Companion: Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference Companion. Ochoa, G. (ed.). ACM, p. 183-186 4 p.Research output: Chapter in Book / Report / Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Academic › peer-review
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Courses
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Acquiring Moving Skills in Robots with Evolvable Morphologies: Recent Results and Outlook
Jelisavcic, M. (Speaker), Haasdijk, E. (Speaker) & Eiben, A. E. (Speaker)
16 Jul 2017Activity: Lecture / Presentation › Academic
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Data Mining Project, St. Toekomstbeeld der Technie (External organisation)
Eiben, A. E. (Member)
2000Activity: Membership › Academic
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Organizing Committee of the 6th Int. Conf. PPSN-VI (External organisation)
Eiben, A. E. (Member)
2000Activity: Membership › Academic
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Distrib. Res. Evolut. Alg. Machine, DREAM (External organisation)
Eiben, A. E. (Member)
2000Activity: Membership › Academic
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Journal of Evolutionary Optimization (External organisation)
Eiben, A. E. (Member)
2000Activity: Membership › Academic
Prizes / Grants
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2001 IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION OUTSTANDING PAPER AWARD
Eiben, A. E. (Recipient), 2001
Prize / Grant: Prize › Academic
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Best paper award EvoApps
Weel, B. (Recipient), Haasdijk, E. W. (Recipient) & Eiben, A. E. (Recipient), 13 Apr 2012
Prize / Grant: Prize › Academic
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Best paper award PPSN 2014
Simões, L. F. M. F. (Recipient), Izzo, D. (Recipient), Haasdijk, E. W. (Recipient) & Eiben, A. E. (Recipient), 17 Sept 2014
Prize / Grant: Prize › Academic
Press/Media
Datasets
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Data from: Optimized flocking of autonomous drones in confined environments
Vásárhelyi, G. (Contributor), Virágh, C. (Contributor), Somorjai, G. (Contributor), Nepusz, T. (Contributor), Eiben, A. E. (Contributor) & Vicsek, T. (Contributor), Zenodo, 2019
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.mq85r61, https://zenodo.org/record/4983910
Dataset / Software: Dataset
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Data from: Optimized flocking of autonomous drones in confined environments
Vásárhelyi, G. (Contributor), Virágh, C. (Contributor), Somorjai, G. (Contributor), Nepusz, T. (Contributor), Eiben, A. E. (Contributor) & Vicsek, T. (Contributor), Unknown, 25 Jul 2018
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.mq85r61, http://datadryad.org/stash/dataset/doi:10.5061/dryad.mq85r61
Dataset / Software: Dataset
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Replication Data for: A model-free method to learn multiple skills in modular robots
Diggelen, V. (Creator), Cambier, N. (Creator), Ferrante, E. (Creator), Eiben, A. E. (Creator) & Diggelen, V. (Contributor), DataverseNL, 2023
DOI: 10.34894/xzqzaz, https://dataverse.nl/citation?persistentId=doi:10.34894/XZQZAZ
Dataset / Software: Dataset