Dr. Joshua Evan Auerbach, B.Sc., Ph.D.

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1 Dr. Joshua Evan Auerbach, B.Sc., Ph.D. Postdoctoral Researcher Laboratory of Intelligent Systems École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne EPFL-STI-IMT-LIS Station 11 CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland Nationality: U.S. Citizen Tel: (802) Education: Jan April 2013 Interdisciplinary Ph.D. Program in Computer Science. Cumulative GPA 4.0. Graduate Certificate in Complex Systems earned Dec Ph.D. Dissertation defended Feb. 26, 2013: The Evolution of Complexity in Autonomous Robots McGill University Sept Dec Montreal, QC Canada Honors Bachelor of Science: Computer Science with Minor Concentration in Philosophy. In Major GPA 3.8. Niskayuna High School Sept June 2001 Niskayuna, NY AP Scholar with Distinction. Commended Student, National Merit Scholarship Corporation. National Honors Society. Publications: Peer-Reviewed Journal Publications Auerbach, J. E., Bongard, J. C. (2014) Environmental Influence on the Evolution of Morphological Complexity in Machines. PloS Computational Biology vol. 10, num. 1, p. e San Francisco, CA. Peer-Reviewed Conference Publications Auerbach, J.E., Fernando, C., Floreano, D. (2014) Online Extreme Evolutionary Learning Machines. 14th International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems (ALife XIV), New York, NY. Auerbach, J.E. et al. (2014) RoboGen: Robot Generation through Artificial Evolution. 14th International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems (ALife XIV), New York, NY.

2 Germann, J. M., Auerbach, J. E., Floreano, D. (2014) Programmable Self-Assembly with Chained Soft Cells: An Algorithm to Fold into 2-D Shapes. Simulation of Adaptive Behavior 2014, Castellón, Spain. Auerbach, J. E., Bongard, J. C. (2012) On the Relationship Between Environmental and Mechanical Complexity in Evolved Robots. 13th International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems (ALife XIII), East Lansing, MI. Auerbach, J. E. (2012) Automated Evolution of Interesting Images. 13th International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems (ALife XIII), East Lansing, MI. Auerbach, J. E., Bongard, J. C. (2012) On the Relationship Between Environmental and Morphological Complexity in Evolved Robots Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2012), Philadelphia, PA. Auerbach, J. E., Bongard, J. C. (2011) Evolving Complete Robots with CPPN-NEAT: The Utility of Recurrent Connections Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2011), Dublin, Ireland. Auerbach, J. E., Bongard, J. C. (2010) Dynamic Resolution in the Co-Evolution of Morphology and Control. 12th International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems (ALife XII), Odense, Denmark. Auerbach, J. E., Bongard, J. C. (2010) Evolving CPPNs to Grow Three-Dimensional Physical Structures Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2010), Portland, OR. Auerbach, J., Bongard, J. C. (2009) Evolution of Functional Specialization in a Morphologically Homogeneous Robot Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2009), Montreal Canada. Auerbach, J., Bongard, J. C. (2009) How Robot Morphology and Training Order Affect the Learning of Multiple Behaviors IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (IEEE CEC 2009), Trondheim, Norway. Book Chapters Auerbach, J. E., Bongard, J. C. (2011) Evolving Monolithic Robot Controllers Through Incremental Shaping. New Horizons in Evolutionary Robotics. Workshop and Minimally Reviewed Publications Auerbach, J. E., Bongard, J. C. (2010) Scalable Evolution of Robot Morphology North East Student Colloquium on Artificial Intelligence, (NESCAI 2010), Amherst, MA. Auerbach, J., Bongard, J. C. (2009) Evolving Monolithic Robot Controllers Through Incremental Shaping IROS Workshop Exploring New Horizons in the Evolutionary Design of Robots, (IROS EvoDeRob 2009), St Louis, MO.

3 Employment: EPFL: Postdoctoral Researcher Lausanne, Switzerland August 2013 Present Postdoctoral researcher in the Laboratory of Intelligent Systems in the Institute of Microengineering funded under the European project INSIGHT. Duties included design, execution and publication of research related to Darwinian Neurodynamics, teaching Bio-Inspired Artificial Intelligence, and supervising graduate students. : Research Assistant May 2008 April 2013 Research assistant in the Morphology, Evolution and Cognition Laboratory in the Department of Computer Science under the advisory of Dr. Josh Bongard. Duties included design, execution and publication of research in the field of Evolutionary Robotics. : Teaching Assistant Jan May 2008 Supervised labs, provided one on one teaching, and graded assignments for CS 14 Visual Basic Programming. Dealer.com, Inc: Software Developer Jun 2005 Jan Designed, developed, deployed, and maintained web based management software for the automotive industry. Made heavy use of Java, Velocity, MySQL, Linux server configurations, JavaScript and DHTML. Vail Resorts: Lift Operations Dec April 2005 Vail, CO Responsible for safe operation of chairlifts and providing additional guest services to the clientèle. General Electric (Global Computer Ops): Intern/Coop Summers Niskayuna, NY Created and maintained dynamic web applications for the GE intranet. This work was primarily implemented with JSP (Java Server Pages), SQL databases, and HTML. Awards and Honors: Best Presentation Award, 13th International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems (ALife XIII, 2012) UVM Computer Science Graduate Award (2012) Golden Key Honor Society Inductee (2008)

4 Experience: Lead Assistant and Lecturer: EPFL MICRO-551 Bio-Inspired Artificial Intelligence: Spring 2014 Lead Developer: RoboGen open-source software and hardware platform for evolutionary robotics (2013-) Guest Lecturer: UVM CS295/395 Evolutionary Robotics: Fall 2010 UVM ME295 Biomechanics of Locomotion: Fall 2010 UVM CS228 Human Computer Interaction: Spring 2011 UVM CS295/395 Evolutionary Robotics: Fall 2011, Fall 2012 Mentor: Semester project supervisor for multiple masters students Mentor for Krishna Digumarti, intern in the Laboratory of Intelligent Systems One on one mentor for Eli Barlow, student at the Lake Champlain Waldorf School doing an independent study project on autonomous robotics. Spring Program Committee Member: ECAL th European Conference on Artificial Life. Artificial Life XIV 14 th International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems (2014) Artificial Life XIII 13 th International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems (2012) Reviewer: Evolutionary Computation Journal (2013-) IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation (2014-) SSCI IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (2013) SAB International Conference on Adaptive Behaviour (2012-) ALife International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems (2010-) GECCO Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (2011-) ECAL The European Conference on Artificial Life (2011-) Participant: Embodiment and Morphological Computation Summer School Zürich, Switzerland. Santa Fe Institute Complex Systems Summer School Santa Fe, NM. Telluride Neuromorphic Cognition Engineering Workshop Telluride, CO.

5 Professional References: 1. Dr. Joshua Bongard (802) Dept. of Computer Science, USA 2. Dr. Dario Floreano Full Professor Laboratory of Intelligent Systems Institute of Microengineering École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland 3. Dr. Peter Sheridan Dodds (802) Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics, USA 4. Dr. Christopher Danforth (802) Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics, USA