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Melanie Mitchell, PhD
Professor of Computer Science at Portland State University, External Faculty Member, Santa Fe Institute
Melanie Mitchell received a a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Michigan in 1990. Her dissertation work with Douglas Hofstadter was on cognitive modeling of high-level perception and analogy-making. She has held faculty or research positions at the University of Michigan, the Santa Fe Institute (as Director of the Institute's Adaptive Computation Program), the Los Alamos National Laboratory, and the School of Science and Engineering at the Oregon Health & Science University. She is currently Professor of Computer Science at Portland State University and an external faculty member of the Santa Fe Institute.
Dr. Mitchell has been the recipient of a University of Michigan Regents' Fellowship, a Junior Fellowship in the Michigan Society of Fellows, and a 21st Century Research Award Grant from the J. S. McDonnell Foundation. In 1997 she was selected to give the Ulam Memorial Lectures in Complex Systems at the Santa Fe Institute.
Dr. Mitchell is the author of Analogy-Making as Perception (MIT Press, 1993) and An Introduction to Genetic Algorithms (MIT Press, 1996). She is the co-editor of Adaptive Individuals in Evolving Populations: Models and Algorithms (Addison Wesley, 1996) and Perspectives on Adaptation in Natural and Artificial Systems (Oxford University Press, 2005). She is also the author of over 60 research papers in the fields of machine intelligence, cognitive science, and complex systems.
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