SIGEVO Officers:

Chair: Darrell Whitley ()
Vice Chair: John Koza ()
Secretary: Una-May O'Reilly ()
Treasurer: Wolfgang Banzhaf ()


ACM has concluded the email balloting of SIGEVO members for election of nine new members of the SIGEVO Executive Committee (see below). The newly elected members will take office on July 1, 2007, and the annual meeting of the Executive Committee will be held during GECCO-2007 in London.

The newly elected members of the SIGEVO Executive Committee, and their terms are (some are 4 years rather than six, to get the term expiration dates coordinated with the "carryover" members from the ISGEC, which evolved into SIGEVO):

Congratulations to these new SIGEVO EC members!

Therefore, the new Executive Committee (alphabetical order), including new and returning members, with term expiration dates, is:

Executive Committee:

Wolfgang Banzhaf (term expires 2009) University of Dortmund email: http://www.cs.mun.ca/~banzhaf/ Erick Cantú-Paz (term expires 2011) Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory email: http://www.llnl.gov/casc/people/cantu-paz/ Dave Davis (term expires 2011) Nutech Solutions, Inc. email: Kalyanmoy Deb (term expires 2013) Indian Institute of Technology - Kanpur email: Kenneth DeJong (term expires 2009) George Mason University email: Marco Dorigo (term expires 2009) Université Libre de Bruxelles email: http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~mdorigo David E. Goldberg (term expires 2009) University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign email: http://www-illigal.ge.uiuc.edu Erik D. Goodman (term expires 2009) Michigan State University email: http://www.egr.msu.edu/~goodman John H. Holland (term expires 2013) University of Michigan & Sante Fe Institute email: John R. Koza (term expires 2013) Stanford University email: http://www.genetic-programming.com /johnkoza.html Una-May O'Reilly (term expires 2011) Massachusetts Institute of Technology email: http://people.csail.mit.edu/unamay/ Riccardo Poli (term expires 2013) University of Essex email: http://cswww.essex.ac.uk/staff/poli/poli.htm Franz Rothlauf (term expires 2011) Universität Mannheim email: http://www.verwaltung.uni-mannheim.de/i3v/00032900/02980791.htm Marc Schoenauer (term expires 2013) INRIA email: Lee Spector (term expires 2011) Hampshire College email: http://hampshire.edu/lspector Dirk Thierens (term expires 2011) Universiteit Utrecht email: http://www.cs.uu.nl/staff/dirk.html Darrell Whitley (chair) (term expires 2013) Colorado State University email: http://www.cs.colostate.edu/~whitley Annie S. Wu (term expires 2009) University of Central Florida email: ttp://www.cs.ucf.edu/~aswu

Elections in odd-numbered years will pick 9 members in 2007 (six for 6-year terms, three for 4-year terms) and six members each odd-numbered year after that, to six-year terms on the EC.