Michael N. Vrahatis

Biographical sketch: Michael N. Vrahatis (Μιχαήλ Ν. Βραχάτης) was born in Kalamata, Greece, on April 27, 1955. He received his Ph.D. in Mathematics in 1982 from the University of Patras, Greece. His work includes topological degree theory, systems of nonlinear algebraic and transcendental equations, nonlinear dynamics and complexity, numerical and intelligent optimization, data mining and unsupervised clustering, intelligent cryptography, bio–inspired computing, biomedical informatics as well as computational and swarm intelligence. He is a Professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Patras since 2000 and serves as Director of the Computational Intelligence Laboratory of the same Department since 2004. Several of his doctoral and/or postdoctoral students serve as full professors, associate professors, assistant professors or lecturers in Greece, England and Japan.

He was a visiting research fellow at the Department of Mathematics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA (1987–1988) and a visiting professor to the INFN (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare), Bologna, Italy (1992, 1994, and 1998); the Department of Computer Science, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium (1999); the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Center for Ocean Engineering, Design Laboratory, MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA (2000); and the Collaborative Research Center “Computational Intelligence” (SFB 531) at the Department of Computer Science, University of Dortmund, Germany (2001). He was a visiting researcher at CERN (European Organization of Nuclear Research), Geneva, Switzerland (1992) and at INRIA (Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique), Sophia–Antipolis, France (1998, 2003, 2004 and 2006).

He has participated in the organization of over 150 conferences serving at several positions, and participated in over 215 conferences, congresses and advanced schools as a speaker (participant as well as invited) or observer. He serves/served as honorary editor–in–chief, honorary advisor, editor–in–chief, associate editor–in–chief, special issue editor or member of the editorial board of fifteen international journals.

His work consists of over 350 publications: a) 12 books (including one published in Germany and one published in U.S.A.), b) 132 papers in refereed scientific journals, c) 102 papers in refereed book chapters and edited volumes, d) 149 papers in refereed academic conference proceedings and e) 40 other publications (book–reviews, technical reports, extended abstracts and two non–refereed papers). The accumulated impact factor (ISI 2009) of his published journal papers is 170.9 and the average impact factor is 1.54. The number of his publications with journal impact factor greater than 0.4 is 111 while 88 of his publications have a journal impact factor greater than 1, with the highest being 5.1.

His work has been cited by other authors over 6,800 times. Also, his work has been cited in the European patents: EP1250648 and EP2054852, as well as in the United States patents: US6073043, US7225107, US7356430, US7558762, US7599894, US7603326, US7624077, US7636700, US7672911, US7707220, US7778950, US7792816, US7882048, US7894648, US7904279 and US8000928. According to Google Scholar, 9 of his publications have received more than 100 citations each (i100–index=9, w–index=9), and 22 have received between 50 and 100 citations (i50–index=31). His highest–cited paper has been cited more than 950 times in the last ten years. His h–index is 40, his g–index is 74 while his i10–index is 117.