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Giuseppe Nicosia, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Computer Science

Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
University of Catania, Italy

Institute for Advanced Studies - Laboratory for Complex Systems

New York University - Bioinformatics Laboratory

Research Interests
- Computational Biology: protein structure prediction, protein folding; protein robustness and biological robustness; sensitivity analysis for biological systems; artificial immune systems; biological design automation, biological circuit design; artificial photosynthesis.
- Computation for Design and Optimization: the design and analysis of optimization algorithms; robustness, sensitivity analysis; electronic design automation: circuit and device optimization, circuit sizing, and design for yield (Academic Network - Cadence Design Systems Inc.); numerical and combinatorial optimization; evolutionary computing and multi-objective optimization; space trajectory optimization: Global Optimisation Trajectory Problems and Solutions, of the European Space Agency (ESA).

International Summer Schools
- Co-Director of the International Summer School of Modelling and Optimization in Micro- and Nano- Electronics - MOMINE'09, 31 August - 12 September 2009, Cetraro (Cosenza) Italy.
- Co-Director of the International Summer School of Modelling and Optimization in Micro- and Nano- Electronics - MOMINE'08, 14-28 June 2008 Baia Samuele Conference Centre, Scicli-Sicily, Italy.
- Co-Director of the International School of Functional Genomics, 5-19 July 2008 Baia Samuele Conference Centre, Scicli-Sicily, Italy.
  Lectio Magistralis Rita Levi-Montalcini, EBRI, Nobel Laureate.
  (from left to right) Prof. Pietro Calissano, Nobel Laureate Rita Levi-Montalcini, Prof. Giuseppe Nicosia, Prof. Sebastiano Cavallaro,
  (from left to right) Prof. Pietro Calissano, Nobel Laureate Rita Levi-Montalcini, Prof. Giuseppe Nicosia, Prof. Sebastiano Cavallaro,
  (from left to right) Rector of the University of Catania Prof. Antonino Recca, Prof. Pietro Calissano, Nobel Laureate Rita Levi-Montalcini, Prof. Giuseppe Nicosia, Prof. Sebastiano Cavallaro.
- Co-Director of the Bertinoro International Summer School of Natural Computation - BNC 2008, September 20-27, 2008 University Residential Center Bertinoro - BiCi, Italy.
International Events
- Programme Chair of the 12th International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving From Nature - PPSN 2012, Taormina - Sicily, Italy, 1-5. September 2012.
Some Invited Talks
- SCEE2012 - Scientific Computing in Electrical Engineering, ETH Zurich, Switzerland, September 11-14, 2012. g
- Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz Center for Informatics, Germany, Spring 2011.
- Tradeoffs in Natural and Artificial Systems, at the Biowire 2009 - from Self-Organisation in Living Systems to Sensor and Wireless Networks, 11-12 June, University of Cambridge, UK.
- Tutorial Speaker: Introduction to Artificial Immune Systems, 7th Int. Conf. on Artificial Immune Systems - ICARIS'08, 10th-13th August, 2008 in Phuket, Thailand.
- Entropy and Information Gain in the Protein Folding Problem, BioINF 2008 - Information Theory in Genomics and Proteomics, University of Pisa, 16-17 June 2008.
- Population-based algorithms for Robust Analog Circuit Design using Constrained Multi-Objective Optimization, Center for Silicon System Implementation, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering - Carnegie Mellon University, USA, 2007.
- Real-World Applications by Immunological Computing, First KES Summer School on "Artificial Immune Systems", Vietri sul Mare (SA) - Italy, 17th-19th September 2007.
- ``Multi-objective Optimization for Integrated-Circuit Design'', University of Perugia, Int. Joint Meeting UMI -DMV, June 18-22, 2007.
- A multi-objective approach to the protein structure prediction problem, Complex Systems in Molecular Biology and Medicine, Interdisciplinary Research Center, University of Torino, December 2006.
- Evolutionary Optimization, Summer School on Computational Methods for Microelectronics, Capo D'Orlando (ME), Italy, September, 2005.
- Protein Bioinformatics Problems by Multi-objective Optimization, ICICIS 2005, Second ACM Int. Conf. on Intelligent Computing and Information Systems, March, 2005, Cairo, Egypt.
- Combinatorial Landscapes, Immune Algorithms and Protein Structure Prediction Problem, Research School of Biosciences, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK, March, 2004.
Recent Seminars
- ``Optimization Algorithms in Electronic Design Automation'', University of York, Computer Science Dept. - York Centre for Complex Systems Analysis, January, 2011.
- ``Optimization, Tradeoffs, Topology and Robustness in Artificial and Natural Systems: Designing Circuits, Pathways, and Algorithms'', University of Napoli "Federico II", Italy, November 2009.
- ``Optimization using Population-Based Algorithms'', University of Roma ``La Sapienza'', Italy, March 2008.
- ``A General-Purpose Methodology to Optimize Performance, Yield and Time-To-Market'', University of Trento, Italy, February 2008.
- ``Population-based Optimization Algorithms for Real World Applications'', Princeton University, USA, December 2007.
- ``From Electronic Design Automation to Biological Design Automation'', Courant Institute for Mathematical Sciences, New York University, USA, December 2007.
- ``Population-based Algorithms for Robust Analog Circuit Design using Constrained Multi-Objective Optimization: Optimizing Topology, Sizing, Yield and Time-to-Market'', Cadence Design Systems Inc. - Pittsburgh, USA, November 2007.
- ``Modelling, Simulation and Optimization tools in Biomedical Information Technology'', MIT, USA, November 2007.
- ``Multi-Objective Optimization for Circuit Design Problem and Protein Structure Prediction'', Int. School of Mathematics "G. Stampacchia", 46th Workshop "New Problems and Innovative Methods in Nonlinear Optimization", "E. Majorana" Foundation and Centre for Scientific Culture, Erice, Italy, July 31 - August 9, 2007.

Awards
- Best Paper Award at the Int. Conf. on Biosciences - BIOINFO, 2010.
- Best Paper Award sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, the 27th SGAI Int. Conf. on Artificial Intelligence, University of Cambridge, 2007.
  Giuseppe Nicosia - Best Paper Award, University of Cambridge, Peterhouse College - The Trophy, The Certificate, The Certificate 2, The ....
- Italian Government Scholarship, 2005.
- IEEE Neural Network Society - Computational Intelligence Society Scholarship, 2004.
- AAAI - American Association for Artificial Intelligence Scholarship, 2003.
- Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa Research Fellowship, 2003.
- Volkswagen Foundation Scholarship, 1999.
- IBM Leonardo 2000 Award, 1995.
Collaboration Number/Distance
- My Erdos number is 4: Paul Erdös → Harold S. Shapiro → Jacob T. Schwartz → Vincenzo Cutello → Giuseppe Nicosia.
- My von Neumann number is 5: John von Neumann → Abraham Haskel Taub → Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat → Antonio Maria Greco → Angelo Marcello Anile → Giuseppe Nicosia.
- My Einstein number is 6: Albert Einstein → Peter Gabriel Bergmann → Michel Cahen → Michael M. Gunther → Giuseppe Ali' → Angelo Marcello Anile → Giuseppe Nicosia.
- My Turing number is 7: Alan Mathison Turing → M. H. A. Newman → James Hardy Wilkinson → Gene Howard Golub → Joseph B. Keller → John K. Hunter → Angelo Marcello Anile → Giuseppe Nicosia.
- My Collaboration Distance with Enrico Fermi is 5: Enrico Fermi → Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar → Mark Kac → Jacob T. Schwartz → Vincenzo Cutello → Giuseppe Nicosia.
- My Collaboration Distance with Stephen W. Hawking is 5: Stephen W. Hawking → Rainer Kurt Sachs → Jurgen Ehlers → Reinhard A. Breuer → Angelo Marcello Anile → Giuseppe Nicosia.
- My Collaboration Distance with Norbert G. Wiener is 5: Norbert G. Wiener → Pesi Rustom Masani → David K. Ferry → Christian A. Ringhofer → Angelo Marcello Anile → Giuseppe Nicosia.
- My Collaboration Distance with Paul Dirac is 6: Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac → Leopold Infeld → T. E. Hull → Charles A. Swanson → Walter Allegretto → Angelo Marcello Anile → Giuseppe Nicosia.
- My Collaboration Distance with Claude Elwood Shannon is 6: Claude Elwood Shannon → John Riordan → Colin L. Mallows → Yoshiaki Itoh → Oleg I. Bogoyavlenskii → Angelo Marcello Anile → Giuseppe Nicosia.
Editorial Boards
- Member of the Editorial Board of Memetic Computing Journal, Springer.
- Member of the Editorial Board of Immunome Research Journal.
- Member of the Editorial Board of Journal of Artificial Evolution and Applications, Hindawi Publishing Corp. (2007-2009).
Recent Programme Committees
- GECCO 2012, EVOCOP 2012, ANTS 2012, ACM GECCO 2011, CEC 2011, KES 2011, AE 2011, World Computer Congress 2010, IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence 2010, ACM GECCO 2010, ICEC 2010, Seventh Int. Conf. on Swarm Intelligence 2010, BIOTECHNO 2010, ACM GECCO 2009, IEEE MCDM 2009, ICARIS 2009, IEEE CEC 2009, ICARIS 2008, ACM GECCO 2008, IEEE WCCI 2008, NC 2007, IEEE FOCI 2007, KES 2007, ICARIS 2007, ACM GECCO 2006, ICARIS 2006, IIS 2006, ACM GECCO 2005, ICARIS 2005.
Referee for the following International Journals
- Evolutionary Computation - MIT Press,
- IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics,
- IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation,
- IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks,
- IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics - Part B Cybernetics,
- IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing,
- Information Sciences - Elsevier,
- International Journal of Circuits Theory and Applications - Wiley,
- Nonlinear Analysis: Hybrid Systems - Elsevier,
- ACM Computing Reviews,
- IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine,
- International Journal on Unconventional Computing - OCPublishing,
- Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling - ACS Publications,
- Theoretical Computer Science - Elsevier,
- European Journal of Operational Research - Elsevier,
- Computational Optimization and Applications - Springer,
- Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines - Springer,
- Swarm Intelligence - Springer,
- Mathematics and Computers in Simulation - Elsevier,
- Ultramicroscopy Journal - Elsevier,
- Evolutionary Intelligence - Springer,
- BioSystems - Elsevier,
- Journal of Biotechnology - Elsevier,
- BMC Bioinformatics - BioMed Central,
- Current Medicinal Chemistry Journal - Bentham Science,
- Briefings in Bioinformatics - Oxford University Press,
- Journal of the Royal Society Interface - Royal Society Publishing.
Professional Memberships
- ACM, IEEE, and SIAM.
- Steering Committee of ICARIS - International Conference on Artificial Immune Systems.
- Working Group in Artificial Immune Systems - IEEE Evolutionary Computation Technical Committee

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Giuseppe Nicosia, Optimization, Computational Biology, Combinatorial Optimization, Numerical Optimization, Non Linear Optimization, Large Scale Optimization, Evolutionary Algorithms, Genetic Algorithms, Immune Algorithms, Artificial Immune Systems, Immunological Algorithms, Computational Immunology, Graph Coloring, String Folding, NP-complete problems, K-SAT, Robustness, Circuit Optimization, Circuit Design, Design For Yield, Device Optimization, Bioinformatics, Structural Bioinformatics, Protein Folding, Protein Structure Prediction, HP model.