Kalyanmoy Deb
University of Alabama, Michigan State University, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
Research areas: Computer Science · Artificial Intelligence · Advanced Multi-Objective Optimization Algorithms · Metaheuristic Optimization Algorithms Research · Evolutionary Algorithms and Applications
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About
Kalyanmoy Deb is currently Endowed Shelby Distinguished Professor at the Department of Computer Science, University of Alabama (UA), Tuascaloosa, USA. He was University Distinguished Professor and Koenig Endowed Chair Professor at Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering in Michigan State University, USA before joining UA. He received his Bachelor's degree from Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur in 1985 and Masters and Doctoral degrees from UA, Tuscaloosa, USA in 1989 and 1991, respectively. Prof. Deb's research interests are in evolutionary optimization and their application in multi-criterion optimization, modeling, and machine learning. He has been a visiting professor at various universities across the world including University of Skövde in Sweden, Aalto University in Finland, Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, and IITs in India. He was awarded IEEE Evolutionary Computation Pioneer Award for his sustained work in EMO, Infosys Prize, TWAS Prize in Engineering Sciences, CajAstur Mamdani Prize, Distinguished Alumni Award from IIT Kharagpur, Edgeworth-Pareto award, Bhatnagar Prize in Engineering Sciences, and Bessel Research award from Germany. He is fellow of ACM, ASME, and IEEE, and three Indian science and engineering academies. He has published over 680 research papers with Google Scholar citation of over 240,000 with h-index 150 until August 2026. He is in the editorial board on more than 10 major international journals. More information about his research contribution can be found from https://www.coin-lab.org and https://www.kdeb.us.
Employment
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University of Alabama Endowed Shelby Distinguished Professor2026 - Present
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Michigan State University University Distinguished Professor2011 - 2026
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Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur Asst/Asso/Professor1992 - 2013
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Engineers India Ltd Asst. Engineer1985 - 1987
Education
- 1989 - 1991
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University of Alabama Masters1987 - 1989
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Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur BTech (Hons.)1981 - 1985
Projects & Funding
Projects & funding information is unavailable.
Publications (112)
- Following natural evolution closely in devising evolutionary algorithms for certain challenging problems Save
- A Machine-based Decision-maker Toward Benchmarking Interactive Multi-criterion Decision-making Procedures Save
- Iteration-wise intermediate points saved in an archive as outcome of an optimization algorithm considered unreliable Save
- A GNBG-Inspired Multi-Component Benchmark Suite with Controlled Difficulty Axes for the IOH BenchDesign Challenge Save
- A Surrogate-Assisted Evolutionary Algorithm with Innovized Progress Operator for Expensive Many-Objective Optimization Save
- Advances in Multi-Objective Optimization and Decision-Making Save
- Benchmarking Interactive Multi-Criterion Decision-Making Procedures Following Machine Learning-Based Decision-Maker Save
- Directly Targeting Convex Pareto Solutions Save
- Ensemble Surrogate-Assisted Optimization with Dynamic Dimensional Splitting for High-Dimensional Expensive Mixed-Variable Problems Save
- GNBG-III: A Property-Aware Benchmark Suite for Diagnosing Continuous Black-Box Optimizers Save
- Multi-Objective Orchestration of Small Language Model Ensembles: Balancing Accuracy, Diversity, and Fairness Save
- Regularity-Driven Multi-objective Neural Architecture Search Save
- Rethinking Evolutionary Optimization: Paying Attention to Intermediate Transitional Solutions for Certain Problems Save
- To Balance Competitive Games Using a Multi-objective Coevolutionary Approach Save
- pMachine-DM: A Stochastic Machine Learning-Based Decision-Maker for Interactive Multi-Criterion Decision-Making Save
- HyBMSearch: A fast multi-Level search algorithm delivering order-of-Magnitude speedups on multi-Billion datasets Save
- Many-objective robust gait optimization for a 25-DOFs NAO robot using NSGA-III Save
- Fifty years of multi-objective optimization and decision-making: From mathematical programming to evolutionary computation Save
- Handling Objectives With Heterogeneous Evaluation Times in Surrogate-Assisted Evolutionary Multiobjective Optimization Save
- Multiobjective Competitive Co-Evolutionary Optimization and Regularity-Based Decision-Making for Two-Agent Wargame Strategy Optimization Save