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Risto Miikkulainen is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Texas at Austin and serves as the Associate Vice President of Evolutionary Intelligence at Cognizant Technology Solutions. He received a Master of Science in Engineering from Helsinki University of Technology (now Aalto University) in 1986, and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from UCLA in 1990. His current research focuses on the methods and applications of neuroevolution, neural network models, natural language processing, and computer vision, alongside broader areas in artificial intelligence. He has published 380 articles across various research domains, which include artificial intelligence, neural networks, natural language processing, computer vision, evolutionary intelligence, neuroevolution, bioinformatics, computational biology, machine learning, cognitive science, and computational neuroscience. He was recognized as an IEEE Fellow by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in 2016.
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