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Kalyanmoy Deb

Professor & Koenig Endowed Chair, Electrical and Computer Engineering
BEACON Center for the Study of Evolution in Action, An NSF Science & Technology Center
Professor, Computer Science and Engineering
Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA

Director, Computational Optimization and Innovation (COIN) Laboratory

Founder and Formerly Director of Kanpur Genetic Algorithms Laboratory, KanGAL, IIT Kanpur, India

General Chair, Evolutionary Multi-Criterion Optimization Conference (EMO-2019 )Please see for more details.

Office: (+1) 517 432 2144
BEACON: (+1) 517 884 2567
Fax: (+1) 517 353 1980
Email: kdeb at egr.msu.edu


Visits: 3247 Engineering Building
Mailing Address: Click here




Research interests:
Non-linear Optimization, Many and Multi-objective Optimization, Metamodeling, Constraint Handling, Engineering Design, Evolutionary Algorithms and Metaheuristics, Innovization, Neural Networks, Data-mining and Machine learning.

A podcast of my research and development of NSGA-II recorded by Science Watch of Thomson Reuters can be found here.

Research Impact: Teaching:
  • ECE 802-605 Evolutionary Multi-Criterion Optimization and Decision Making
  • ECE 802-609 Optimization Methods for Engineering Design
  • ECE 480 Capstone Design
  • ECE 280 Analytical Methods for Electrical Engineering
  • ECE 201 Circuits and Systems I
  • ECE 202 Circuits and Systems II
Top Publications (by citations):
  • Deb, K., Pratap. A, Agarwal, S., and Meyarivan, T. (2002). A fast and elitist multiobjective genetic algorithm: NSGA-II. IEEE Transaction on Evolutionary Computation, 6(2), 181-197. (6,049 ISI citations)
  • Deb, K. (2001). Multi-objective optimization using evolutionary algorithms. Chichester, London: Wiley. (3,301 ISI citations)
  • Deb, K. (1995). Optimization methods for engineering design. 2nd Edn. New Delhi: Prentice-Hall.
  • Zitzler, E., Deb, K., and Thiele, L. (2000). Comparison of multiobjective evolutionary algorithms: Empirical results. Evolutionary Computation Journal, 8(2), 173-195. (1,124 ISI citations)
  • Srinivas, N. and Deb, K. (1995). Multiobjective function optimization using nondominated sorting genetic algorithms, Evolutionary Computation Journal, 2(3), 221-248. (1,061 ISI citations)
  • Deb, K. (2000). An efficient constraint handling method for genetic algorithms. Computer Methods in Applie d Mechanics and Engineering, (186), 2-4, 311-338. (1,015 ISI Citations)
  • Deb, K. (1999). Multi-objective Genetic Algorithms: Problem Difficulties and Construction of Test Problems Source: Evolutionary Computation Journal, 7(3), 205-230.(348 ISI citations)
  • Laumanns, M., Thiele, L., Deb, K. (2002). Combining convergence and diversity in evolutionary multiobjective optimization,. Evolutionary Computation Volume, 10(3), 263-282. (317 ISI citations)
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