modified: August 7th, 2008

Contact Information of Stefan Wagner

Address & Affiliation

Dipl.-Ing. Stefan Wagner
HeuristicLab head developer, project management


Department of Software Engineering
School of Informatics, Communications and Media - Hagenberg
Upper Austria University of Applied Sciences
Softwarepark 11
A-4232 Hagenberg
AUSTRIA

Phone:   +43 7236 3888 2030
Fax:   +43 7236 3888 2099
Skype:   wagner.stefan
E-Mail:   stefan.wagner@heuristiclab.com

 

Short Biography

1979:   born in Bad Ischl, Austria
1997 - 1998:   Studies in Industrial Mathematics (Mathematical Computer Science) at the Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria
1998 - 1999:   Civilian Service at the Fire Brigade Head Quarters Linz, Austria
1999 - 2004:   Studies in Computer Science at the Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria
since 2002:   Member of Michael Affenzeller's Genetic Algorithms Research Group
since 2002:   Project manager and core developer of HeuristicLab
2003 - 2004:   Graduand at the Institute of Systems Theory and Simulation at the Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria
October 2004:   MSc in Computer Science (with distinction)
since 2004:   PhD student at the Institute for Formal Models and Verification at the Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria
since 10/2005:   Associate professor for Software Project Engineering at the Department of Software Engineering of the School of Informatics, Communications and Media - Hagenberg, Upper Austria University of Applied Sciences, Austria

 

Research Interests

  • Applications and Theory of Evolutionary Algorithms
  • Software Engineering
  • Parallel & Distributed Computing
  • Genetic Programming
  • Machine Learning and Data Mining

 

Invited Talks

August 2008:   Guest lecturer at the University of Technology, Sydney, Australia.

 

Awards

October 2007:   Third place of the "Teacher of the Year Award" of the Department of Software Engineering, School of Informatics, Communications and Media - Hagenberg, Upper Austria University of Applied Sciences.
July 2005:   Best Paper Award of the session "Artificial Intelligence / Expert Systems" at WMSCI 2005 for the paper "SexualGA: Gender-Specific Selection for Genetic Algorithms" (pdf, ps, ps.gz)
July 2005:   Best Paper Award of the session "Management Information Systems" at WMSCI 2005 for the paper "Solving Multiclass Classification Problems by Genetic Programming"
April 2004:   Best Paper Award at EMCSR 2004 for the paper "Identifying Nonlinear Model Structures Using Genetic Programming Techniques" (pdf, ps, ps.gz)

 

Publications

Stefan Wagner's list of publications can be found here.