Wagner Stefan

Wagner

Title: 
Prof. (FH) Dipl.-Ing. Dr.
Name: 
Stefan Wagner
Position: 
HeuristicLab head developer, project management
Affiliation: 

Department of Software Engineering
School of Informatics, Communications and Media
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

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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 research group "Heuristic and Evolutionary Algorithms Laboratory (HEAL)"
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)
2004 - 2009:   PhD student at the Institute for Formal Models and Verification at the Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria
2005 - 2009:   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
May 2009:   PhD in Technical Sciences (with distinction)
since 2009:   Professor for Complex Software Systems 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

December 2009:   Junior Researcher Award 2009 of the Upper Austria University of Applied Sciences
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"
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"

Publications

Stefan Wagner's publications can be found on his Research Documentation page (external link).

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