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Computation. He has been a co-organiser of eight international conferences
and workshops, and has given nine tutorials at international conferences. He
was elected ISGEC Fellow for his contributions to EC. Dr Langdon has ex-
tensive experience designing and implementing GP systems, and is a leader
in both the empirical and theoretical analysis of evolutionary systems. He
also has broad experience both in industry and academic settings in biomed-
ical engineering, drug design, and bioinformatics.
Nicholas F. McPhee is a Full Professor in Computer Science in the
Division of Science and Mathematics, University of Minnesota, Morris. He
is an associate editor of the Journal on Artificial Evolution and Applica-
tions, an editorial board member of Genetic Programming and Evolvable
Machines, and has served on the program committees for dozens of interna-
tional events. He has extensive expertise in the design of GP systems, and in
the theoretical analysis of their behaviours. His joint work with Poli on the
theoretical analysis of GP (McPhee and Poli, 2001; Poli and McPhee, 2001)
received the best paper award at the 2001 European Conference on Genetic
Programming, and several of his other foundational studies continue to be
widely cited. He has also worked closely with biologists on a number of
projects, building individual-based models to illuminate genetic interactions
and changes in the genotypic and phenotypic diversity of populations.