Stephanie Forrest

Stephanie Forrest
NationalityAmerican
Alma materSt. John's College
University of Michigan
AwardsNSF Presidential Young Investigator Award (1991)
IFIP TC2 Manfred Paul Award for Excellence in Software (2009)
ACM/AAAI Allen Newell Award (2011)
Scientific career
FieldsGenetic algorithms
Computer security
InstitutionsTeknowledge Inc.
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Santa Fe Institute
University of New Mexico
Arizona State University
Thesis A study of parallelism in the classifier system and its application to classification in KL-ONE semantic networks  (1985)

Stephanie Forrest (born circa 1958) is an American computer scientist and director of the Biodesign Center for Biocomputing, Security and Society at the Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University.[1] She was previously Distinguished Professor of Computer Science at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque.[2] She is best known for her work in adaptive systems, including genetic algorithms,[3] computational immunology, biological modeling, automated software repair,[4] and computer security.

  1. ^ Minton, Leslie (2017-11-07). "Q&A: Can biology show us how to stop hackers?". ASU Now: Access, Excellence, Impact. Retrieved 2018-01-30.
  2. ^ Forrest, Stephanie. "Home Page". www.cs.unm.edu. Retrieved 2018-01-08.
  3. ^ Genetic algorithms and artificial life M. Mitchell and S. Forrest. Artificial Life, Vol. 1, No. 3 (1994), pp. 267-289. Reprinted in C. G. Langton (Ed.) Artificial Life: an Overview, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA (1995)
  4. ^ A Systematic Study of Automated Program Repair: Fixing 55 out of 105 Bugs for $8.00 Each C. Le Goues, M. Dewey-Vogt, S. Forrest, and W. Weimer. International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE'12) (2012)

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