David E. Goldberg, Ph.D., Professor of General Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
His research centers on the theory and application of genetic algorithms (GAs), search procedures based on the mechanics of natural genetics and natural selection. He is the Director of the lllinois Genetic Algorithms Laboratory.
Author of Genetic Algorithms in Search, Optimization, and Machine Learning (Addison-Wesley, 1989).