People

Group leader

Prof. Thomas Bäck
Professor of Natural Computing

Assistant Professors

Niki van Stein
Assistant Professor of Explainable AI
Hao Wang
Assistant Professor of Optimization and Learning
Anna V. Kononova
Assistant Professor of Efficient Heuristic Optimization
Elena Raponi
Assistant Professor of Bayesian Optimization
Yingjie Fan
Assistant Professor of Logistics Optimization
Florian Neukart
Assistant Professor
Michael Emmerich
Guest researcher
Andre Deutz
Guest lecturer

Post Doctoral Researchers

Furong Ye
Furong Ye

Staff

Graduate Students

Qi Huang
Qi Huang
Xiaohan Wei X
Xiaohan Wei
Waheeda Saib
Waheeda Saib
Chen Chen C
Chen Chen
Christiaan Lamers
Christiaan Lamers
Kirill Antonov
Kirill Antonov
Fu-Xing Long
Fu-Xing Long
Alexander Zeiser
Alexander Zeiser
Jacob de Nobel
Jacob de Nobel
Diederick Vermetten
Diederick Vermetten
Annie Wong
Annie Wong
Haoran Yin
Haoran Yin
Shuaiqun Pan
Shuaiqun Pan
Wei Liu W
Wei Liu
Maarten Vonk
Maarten Vonk
Lucas Correia
Lucas Correia
Anna van Oosterzee A
Anna van Oosterzee
Sebastian Ellmaier
Sebastian Ellmaier
Ksenia Pereverdieva
Ksenia Pereverdieva
Bernd Wagner
Bernd Wagner
Sofoklis Kitharidis
Sofoklis Kitharidis

Collaborators

Agnese Rizzato
Robin van der Laag
BMW
HRI Europe
Heerema Marine Contractors
ASML
Hanze Hogeschool
Roman Senkerik Professor at Tomas Bata University, Zlin.
Michal Pluháček Associate Professor at Tomas Bata University, Zlin.
Fabio Caraffini Associate Professor at Swansea University.
Daniela Zaharie West University of Timisoara

Alumni

Burak Gülmez
Roy de Winter PhD, 2024. Now at TU-Delft.
Veysel Kocaman
Andre Thomaser PhD, 2024. Now at BMW.
Jiawen Kong
Thiago Rios Ph.D., 2022. Now at HRI Europe.
Ron Breukelaar
Ramin Etemadi Idgahi
Daniel Gaida
Theodoros Georgiou
Alexander Hagg
Natasa Kieft
Milan Koch
Patrick Koch
Johannes Willem Kruisselbrink
Rui Li
Ingo Matthias
Asep Moelana
Ofer Michael Sir
Mozhan Soltani
Mohamed Tleis