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 (in particular employing dynamic parameters) 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 (in particular coevolving test cases and software artifacts), Intrusion/Malware Detection Systems (for instance evolving rule sets), and Virtual Facilitation (using Learning Classifier Systems). He teaches a two-course sequence on Evolutionary Computing, a two-course sequence on Artificial Intelligence, and the freshman Discrete Mathematics for Computer Science course. Furthermore, he is very active in undergraduate research and has led three undergraduate research projects funded by the CRA-W, namely: the CSRecruit21 project, the INDAQS project, and currently the Automated Partial Credit Grader (APCG) 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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