William Punch
William Punch
Associate Professor
Research Biography
William F. Punch is director of the MSU High Performance Computing Center and co-director of the Genetic Algorithms Research and Applications Group or GARAGe. His main interests are genetic algorithms and genetic programming, including theoretical issues (parallel GA/GP) and application issues (design, layout, scheduling, etc.). He also has active research in data mining, mostly focused on intelligent search approaches based on pattern-recognition techniques and GA/GP search.
Research Interests
- computational biology
- data mining
- genetic algorithms
Selected Publications
- P. Juhas, D.M. Cherba, P.M. Duxbury, W.F. Punch, S.J.L Billinge,"Ab initio solid state nano-structure determination", Nature , vol 440, no 7084, pp 655-658, March 2006.
- Haibin Cheng, Pang-Ning Tan, Jon Sticklen, and William F. Punch, "Recommendation via Query Centered Random Walk on K-partite Graph," Proc. of IEEE Int'l Conf. on Data Mining (ICDM-07), Omaha, Nebraska, Oct 28-31, 2007.
- J. Demott, R. Enbody, and W. Punch, "Revolutionizing the Field of Grey-box Attack Surface Testing with Evolutionary Fuzzing," Black Hat USA 2007 & DefCon 15, Las Vegas NV, August 2007.
- L. Macklem and W. Punch, "Fitness Moderated Complexification for Prevention of GP Bloat," Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECC0 2007), London 2007.
Selected Achievements and Awards
- College of Engineering Withrow Teaching Excellence Award, 1993