Computational Evolution of Neural and Morphological Development

Yaochu Jin is an Alexander von Humboldt Professor for Artificial Intelligence endowed by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research with the Faculty of Technology, Bielefeld University, Germany. He is also a Distinguished Chair in Computational Intelligence at the University of Surrey, UK. His research interests lie in the interdisciplinary areas of artificial intelligence, systems biology and computational neuroscience, and focus on synergies between evolution, learning and development in computing systems, as well as solving real-world problems using human-centered artificial intelligence techniques. He is a Member of Europaea and a Fellow of the IEEE.

• Computational Models of Evolution and Development.- Analysis of Gene Regulatory Networks.- Evolutionary Synthesis of Gene Regulatory Dynamics.- Evolution of Morphological Development.- Evolution of Neural Development.- Computational Brain-Body Co-Evolution.- Evolutionary Morphogenetic Self-Organization of Swarm Robots.- Towards Evolutionary Developmental Systems.

“‘Computational Evolution of Neural and Morphological Development’ can be a useful compendium for those who already know something about Artificial Life and evolutionary simulations, and for example wish to expand into neural evolution or robotics, or for robotics people who wish to learn about simulating GRNs. For them, it can provide an inspiration for new models, and a way to look up some of the staple computational concepts involved.” (Renske Vroomans, Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines, Vol. 26 (1), 2025)