Sanaz Mostaghim

Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Sanaz Mostaghim

Faculty of Computer Science
Chair of Computational Intelligence

Gebäude 29, Universitätsplatz 2, 39106, Magdeburg, G29-008

Tel.: +49 391 67 54986 Fax: +49 391 67 48050

Vita

Sanaz Mostaghim is a full professor of Computer Science at the Otto von Guericke University of Magdeburg, and Institute Director at Fraunhofer IVI (Institute for Transportation and Infrastructure Systems), and a member of Saxon Academy of Sciences.

She received her PhD degree in electrical engineering and computer science under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Jürgen Teich at the University of Paderborn in 2004. In her PhD thesis, she worked on bio-inspired optimization methods such as multi-objective evolutionary algorithms and particle swarm optimization methods which she applied to problems in computational chemistry and Antenna Design at PaSCo.

Sanaz joined the Computational Laboratory (CoLab) of the computational science department at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich in Switzerland in 2004. As a postdoctoral fellow, she worked together with Prof. Werner Halter from the Geology Department at ETHZ on quantification of multi-component silicate melts. She applied the simulation-based optimization methods and particle swarm optimization to this thermodynamic problem.

In 2006, Sanaz joined Institute AIFB at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and started working on her habilitation in applied computer science which she successfully finished in 2012. The title of her habilitation thesis is: Self-organized Parallel Optimization.

In 2010, Sanaz was a visiting scholar at Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia and in 2013 she has been a visiting scholar at the Yale University, New Haven, USA, where she visited the Social Robotic Laboratory.

Since October 2013, she is working at the faculty of computer science at Otto von Guericke University of Magdeburg.

In 2014, Sanaz received the prestigious DFG Heisenberg-Professorship at KIT.

Sanaz is an active member in international communities. She is the vice president of IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (starting from 2021) and served as adcom member for two terms (2015-2020).

She is a technical committee member at IEEE CIS and since 2012 is serving as an associate editor for IEEE transactions on evolutionary computation and since 2020 as an associate editor of IEEE Transactions on AI. She was the chair of task force Evolutionary Multi-objective Optimization of IEEE-CIS and the founding chair for task force Optimization Methods in Bioinformatics and Bioengineering (OMBB) of IEEE-CIS (chair: 2013-2015).

Sanaz has a bachelor and a master's degree in electrical engineering and biomedical engineering, which she received in 1998 and 2001.

Scientific Activities (Selected)

since 2024: Institute Director at Fraunhofer IVI, Dresden
since 2024: Corresponding Member of Braunschweigische Wissenschaftliche Gesellschaft
since 2023, Ombudsperson, Otto von Guericke University, Magdeburg
since 2022: Member of Saxon Academy of Sciences
since 2024 and 2021-2022: Appointed as a member of advisory board "Digitalrat" at the Ministry of Infrastructure and Digitalization, State Saxony-Anhalt, Germany
since 2024: Member of the Steering Board of Allianz Verkehr (Transportation) of Farunhofer Gesellschaft
since 2024: Member of the extended senate of the University of Magdeburg

since 2022: Deputy chair, Graduate Academy of the University of Magdeburg
2023 - 2024: Dean of Studies, Faculty of Computer Science, Otto von Guericke University, Magdeburg

2021 - 2024: Vice President for member activities at IEEE Computational Intelligence Society
2020 - 2024: Member of the senate of the University of Magdeburg
since 2020: Member of the research center: "Forschungszentrum Dynamische Systeme (CDS): Systems Engineering"
since 2020: Vertrauendozentin, Stiftung der Deutschen Wirtschaft (SDW)
since 2020: Member of the advisory board ZWW, Otto von Guericke University, Magdeburg
2022 - 2024 Member of the advisory board of NFDI4ING: The National Research Data Infrastructure for Engineering Sciences, Germany
2018 - 2024: Member of the Board 4ING Germany
2016 - 2024: Deputy chair and member of the executive board Informatics Germany (Fakultätentag Informatik der Bundesrepublik Deutschland)
since 2010: Member of Evolutionary Computation Technical Committee (ECTC) - IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (CIS)
2012 - 2023: Associate Editor IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation
2020 - 2023: IEEE CIS Distinguished Lecturer
2023 and 2024: Bundes Jury, Jugend Forscht
2023: Finance Chair IEEE Conference on Evolutionary Computation, Chicago, USA
2022: Conference Chair, IEEE Conference on Evolutionary Computation, Padova, Italy
2020-2021: Associate Editor IEEE Transactions on AI
2018 - 2022: Member of the advisory board on digitalization, Ministry of Economy, Science and Digitalization, State Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany
2021: General Chair, IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence, December 2021, Orlando, USA
2021: Chair, IEEE Symposium on Swarm Intelligence
2021: Track Chair Evolutionary Multi-Criteria Optimization, ACM GECCO 2021
2015 - 2020: Elected member of Administrative Committee (ADCOM) - IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (IEEE-CIS)
2017 - 2020: Chair and member of the Steering Board, IEEE Transactions on Games (ToG)
2020: Chair, Multi-Criteria Decision-Making Symposium, IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence, December 2020, Australia
2020: Track Chair, Evolutionary Multi-Criteria Optimization, ACM GECCO, July 2020, Mexico
2019: Program Chair, Evolutionary Multicriterion Optimization Conference, March 2019, Michigan, USA
2019: General Chair, IEEE Conference on Games, 20-23 August 2019, London, UK
since 2019: Member of 4ING Board (4ING der Dachverein der Fakultätentage der Ingenieurwissenschaften und der Informatik an Universitäten).
2016 - 2020: Member of the extended senate of the University of Magdeburg
2018 - 2019: Planning Group Member for Mathematics/Informatics/Engineering - Japanese-German-American Frontiers of Science, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
2012 - 2018: Associate Editor IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics
2016 - 2018: Associate Editor IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence (TETCI)
2016 - 2018: Associate Editor IEEE Transactions on Systems
2017 - 2018: Chair IEEE CIS Young Professionals
2017 - 2018: Planning Group Member for Mathematics/Informatics/Engineering - Japanese-German Frontiers of Science, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
2015 - 2016: Chair IEEE Women in Computational Intelligence (WCI)
2015 - 2016: Member of IEEE Women in Engineering Committee (IEEE WIE)
2013 - 2014: Editorial Board of Soft Computing (Springer)
2010 - 2014: Member of Intelligent Systems Applications Technical Committee - IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (CIS)
2011 - 2018: Chair of the Task Force Evolutionary Multi-objective Optimization IEEE - CIS
2013 - 2015: Founding Chair of the Task Force Optimization Methods in Bioinformatics and Bioengineering (OMBB) IEEE - CIS
2011 - 2014: Member of the board of trusties “Applied Informatics Karlsruhe” (AIK) e. V.
2016: Technical Chair World Congress on Computational Intelligence, CEC, Canada
2014: Technical Chair World Congress on Computational Intelligence, CEC, China
2007 - 2012: Member of faculty board, Faculty of Economic and Business Engineering, KIT

Talks (selected)

2024 - AI for a better future, Public Talk, IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence, Yokohama, Japan
2024 - The Science of Decision-Making, Saxon Academy of Sciences, Leipzig
2023 - Next Generation of Multi-Objective Evolutionary Optimization and Decision-Making Algorithms, 15th International Joint Conference on Computational Intelligence (IJCCI 2023), Rome - Italy, November 13 to 15, 2023, Keynote Talk
2023 - State of the Swarm – Anwendungsbereiche und Risiken intelligenter Schwarmsteuerung, Symposium „Security and Innovation in Cyberspace (SIC!)“, Halle
2023 - KI und Human-Centric Entscheidungsfindung: Geht das? welche Rolle hat der Mensch? juristische Fakultät Universität Hannover
2023 - Multi-Objective Optimization and Decision-Making: Unfolding the Variability, Symposium Cognitive Vitality, Magdeburg
2023 - Multi-Objective Optimization and Learning for Autonomous Systems: From individual to collective decision-making algorithms, SmartProSys Colloquium
2022 - Collective and Individual Decision-Making Algorithms for Autonomous, Systems, ICG JKU, Linz Lab Talk, Austria
2022 - Breaking the boundaries in computational modelling using computational intelligence, Online Symposium Smart Process Systems Engineering 2022: Towards Sustainable & Circular Production Processes, Online
2022 - Recent Advances in Swarm Intelligence and Swarm Robotics, IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Thailand Chapter (IEEE-CIS Thailand Chapter)
2022 - Celebrating Women in Computational Intelligence, IEEE Computational Intelligence, Webinar
2022 - Multi-Criteria Decision-Making Algorithms: From individual to collective, autonomous decision-making, IEEE Victorian Computational Intelligence Society (CIS)
2022 - Collective and Individual Autonomous Decision-Making in Time Critical, Scenarios, York, University, UK
2021 - Invited Talk: "Collective and Individual Decision-Making in Time Critical Scenarios", Ezra Round Table Seminar Series, Cornell Systems Engineering at Cornell University, USA, --> Link to an interview
2020 - Panel Discussion: "Perspectives on Trust and Intelligence", IEEE SSCI 2020, Canberra, Australia.
2020 - Keynote: "Collective and Individual Decision-Making in Swarm Robotics", International Conference on Robotics, Computer Vision and Intelligent Systems (ROBOVIS 2020), --> Link
2020 - Panel Discussion: "Society and AI - What lies ahead?", Alps Forum, University of St.Gallen, Switzerland.

2020 - Keynote: "Evolutionary Multi-Objective Optimization and Decision-Making in Timely Critical Scenarios", IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence, Glasgow, UK
2019: "Multi-Objective Optimization and Decision-Making for Complex Systems", Workshop on Machine Learning in Model Reduction and Control, Chinese-German Research Foundation Center (CDZ), Shanghai, China.
2019 - Keynote: "Autonomous Decision-Making in Intelligent Technical Systems", Opening Ceremony of AI Lab at OsloMet, Oslo, Norway.
2019 - Keynote: "On-the-Fly Optimization and Decision-Making in Intelligent Systems", 20ème congrès annuel de la société Française de Recherche Opérationnelle et d’Aide à la Décision, Le Havre, France --> Link
2017 - Keynote: “Multi-Objective Optimiztaion and Decision-Making in Dynamic Environments”, 11th International Conference on Simulated Evolution and Learning, Shenzhen, China
2017 - Plenary Talk: “Decision-making swarms”, World congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI), Vancouver, Canada -> Link
2017 - Keynote: “Multi-criteria Decision-Making Algorithms”, DAAD, Magdeburg
2016 - Keynote: “Swarm Intelligence: from theory to application in technical systems”, IEEE International Computer Science and Electronic Engineering Conference (CEEC), UK
2015 - Keynote: “Basic Principles of Self-Organization in Technical Systems”, ARCS Conference, Portugal
2012 - Festvortrag: “Invasiv und selbstorganisierend die perfekte Kombination für parallele Algorithmen”, 28. AIK Symposium, KIT, Karlsruhe

Program Committee Member

Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, GECCO (since 2005)
Evolutionary Multi-Criterion Optimization, EMO (since 2005)
International Symposium on Aware Computing, ISAC (2010, 2011)
The Eighth International Conference on Simulated Evolution And Learning SEAL (2010, 2011, 2012)
Congress on Evolutionary Computation, CEC (since 2005)
IEEE Symposium on Multi-Criterion Decision-Making MCDM (2007, 2009, 2011)
The World Conference on Soft Computing in Industrial Applications (since 2006)
International Conference on Evolutionary Algorithms Theory and Applications ECTA (2011, 2012, 2013)

Reviewer

IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics part B, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Evolutionary Computation Journal, Journal of Artificial Evolution, Journal on Neurocomputing, Journal of Computational Intelligence Research, Journal of Heuristics, Journal of Optimization Methods and Software, International Journal of Soft Computing, International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence, International Journal of Systems Science, International Journal of Systems Science, Swarm Intelligence Journal, Computational Optimization and Applications, Computational Intelligence, Operations Research

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Thesis:

Sanaz Mostaghim
Self-organized Parallel Optimization
Habilitationsschrift, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), 2012

Sanaz Mostaghim
Multi-objective Evolutionary Algorithms: Data structures, Convergence and, Diversity
PhD Thesis, Sharker Verlag, 2004