Academic Profile

Dr. Daniel Tauritz is an Associate Professor with Tenure in the Department of Computer Science at Missouri University of Science and Technology (Missouri S&T), formerly University of Missouri-Rolla (UMR). He is the director of the Natural Computation Laboratory (NC-LAB), a Research Investigator in the Intelligent Systems Center, and an Investigator in the Energy Research & Development Center. His primary research interest is in Evolutionary Computing, both the design of novel types of Evolutionary Algorithms (parameterless/autonomous/multi-objective) and their application to real-world problem solving in areas such as Critical Infrastructure Protection (in particular of electric power transmission systems), Automated Software Engineering (coevolving test cases and software artifacts), Intrusion Detection Systems (evolving rule sets), and Inverse Diffusion Analysis (employing Genetic Programming). He teaches a two-course sequence on Evolutionary Computing and an introductory course on Artificial Intelligence. Furthermore, he is very active in undergraduate research and has led two undergraduate research projects funded by the CRA-W, namely: the CSRecruit21 project and the INDAQS project. He is also the campus Sandia National Laboratories Center for Cyber Defenders coordinator and the faculty advisor for ACM SIG Security.

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