Genetic Algorithms and Genetic Programming - Modern Concepts and Practical Applications
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Contact Information of Erik Pitzer

Address & Affiliation

Dipl.-Ing. (FH) Erik Pitzer
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Research Center
Upper Austria University of Applied Sciences
Softwarepark 11
A-4232 Hagenberg
AUSTRIA

Phone:   +43 7236 3888 7129
E-Mail:   erik.pitzer@heuristiclab.com

 

Short Biography

1981   born in Ried im Innkreis, Austria
1991 - 1999   high school: Bundesrealgymnaisum Ried im Innkreis, Austria
2000   military service at the General Zehner Kaserne, Ried, Austria
2000 - 2004   studies in software engineering at the Upper Austrian University of Applied Sciences, Hagenberg, Austria
2003 - 2004   internship and diploma about parallel sequence alignment at the Upper Austrian University of Applied Sciences in Hagenberg
July 2004   Dipl.-Ing. (FH) in Software Engineering (with distinction)
since 2004   doctoral candidate at the Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria
2004 - 2007   research associate at the UAS Hagenberg Research Center
2007 - 2009   research associate at the Decision Systems Group of Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
since 2009   research associate at the UAS Hagenberg Research Center

 

Research Interests

  • Programming Languages
  • Metaheuristics
  • Parallel Programming
  • Bioinformatics
  • Software Development

 

Awards

July 2004   Winner of the Best Thesis Award at the UAS Hagenberg

 

Publications (selection)

E. Pitzer, A. Masselot, J. Colinge. Assessing peptide de novo sequencing algorithms on large and diverse data sets. Proteomics, 2007, 7, 2051-3054

S. Wagner. S. Winkler, E. Pitzer, G. Kronberger, A. Beham, M. Affenzeller. Benefits of plugin-based heuristic optimization software systems. In Proceedings of Computer Aided Systems Theory: EuroCAST 2007. Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2007

J. Colinge, A. Masselot, R. Mylonas, E. Pitzer, R. Appel. InSilicoSpectro: Proteomics open-source library. In Poster Session of the 54th ASMS Conference on Mass Spectrometry, Seattle, WA, 2006

E. Pitzer. Parallel progressive multiple sequence alignment. In Proceedings of the Computer Aided Systems Theory: EuroCAST 2005. Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2005