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Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Sanaz Mostaghim
Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg
Fakultät für Informatik
Institut für Intelligente Kooperierende Systeme
Our major focus in research and teaching is on Intelligent Systems, particularly Computational Intelligence and Swarm Intelligence.Computational Intelligence is an important tool for dealing with complex systems and can be used everywhere: automotive industry, medical applications, chemistry, geology, entrepreneurship, system design, games, biology, etc. In this area, we work on evolutionary algorithms, particle swarm optimization and their applications on multi-objective problems.
Furthermore, we study algorithms and different applications of Swarm Intelligence in optimization, swarm robotics, and distributed systems. Swarm Intelligence is a collective learning mechanism with the goal to achieve a global complex and intelligent behavior using simple rules on simple technical devices.
Profil • Service
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 was the vice president of IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (2021-2024) and served as adcom member for two terms (2015-2020). She is a technical committee member at IEEE CIS and served as an associate editor for IEEE transactions on evolutionary computation (2012 - 2022) and as an associate editor of IEEE Transactions on AI (2020-2022). 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).
In 2022, she established the DECODE platform (Data Science and Computational Modelling) together with the biology department and medical school of OVGU which is funded by the state ministry of research. The goal of DECODE is to apply computational intelligence to medical and behavioral data within the research initiative "cognitive vitality" addressing Alzeihmer and neurodegenerative illnesses.
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)
Talks (selected)
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 was the vice president of IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (2021-2024) and served as adcom member for two terms (2015-2020). She is a technical committee member at IEEE CIS and served as an associate editor for IEEE transactions on evolutionary computation (2012 - 2022) and as an associate editor of IEEE Transactions on AI (2020-2022). 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).
In 2022, she established the DECODE platform (Data Science and Computational Modelling) together with the biology department and medical school of OVGU which is funded by the state ministry of research. The goal of DECODE is to apply computational intelligence to medical and behavioral data within the research initiative "cognitive vitality" addressing Alzeihmer and neurodegenerative illnesses.
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 2023: Bundes Jury, Jugend Forscht
- 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"
- 2020 - 2024: 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: 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)
- 2025 - Human-Centric Multi-Objective Optimization and Decision-Making for Sustainable Mobility, Plenary Talk at IEEE SSCI 2025, Trondheim, Norway
- 2025 - The Science of Decision-Making, BLISS e. V., TU Berlin, Germany
- 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
Expertenprofil
- Computational Intelligence
- Multikriterielle Optimierungalgorithmen
- Evolutionäre Algorithmen
- Multikriterielle Entscheidungsfindungalgorithmen
- Schwarmintelligenz
- Schwarmrobotik
Serviceangebot
Beratung, Gutachten und Projekte zu:
- Schwarmintelligenz und Schwarmrobotik
- Computational Intelligence
- Multikriterielle Optimierung
Projekte • Kooperationen
Projekte
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Kooperationen
- Prof. Dr. Hisao Ishibuchi, Osaka Prefecture University, Japan
- Prof. Dr. Simon Lucas, University of Essex, UK
- Tomo Hiroyasu, Doshisha University Kyoto, Japan
- - Dr. André Presse, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT)
- - Prof. Dr. Brian Scassellati, Yale University, USA
- - Prof. Dr. Hartmut Schmeck, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT)
- Proctor and Gamble GmbH
- - Prof. Dr. Kalyanmoy Deb, Michigan State University, USA
- - Dr. Andrew Lewis, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australien
- - Prof. Dr. Tomo Hiroyasu, Medical Information System Laborator(MISL) Faculty of Life and Medical Sciences, Doshisha University, Japan
- Honda Europe (Deutschland GmbH)
- Prof. Berend van Wachem, OVGU, Fakultät für Verfahrens- und Systemtechnik Institut für Verfahrenstechnik Lehrstuhl Mechanische Verfahrenstechnik
- Prof. Dr. Julia Arlinghaus (FMB)
- Hochschule Bielefeld
- NETSYNO Software GmbH
- Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz GmbH (DFKI)
- BOSCH GMbH
- Prof. Dr. Andreas Harth, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
- AKKA Germany GmbH
- OVGU, Fakultät für Verfahrens- und Systemtechnik Institut für Verfahrenstechnik Lehrstuhl Mechanische Verfahrenstechnik, Prof. Berend Van Wachem
- Thorsis Technologies GmbH
- Medizinische Fakultät der Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg
- Prof. Oliver Bimber, Universität Linz
- DLR, Institut für Robotik und Mechatronik, Oberpfaffenhofen
- Leibniz Institut für Neurobiologie Magdeburg