Charles Ofria

Charles Ofria
Born (1973-12-13) December 13, 1973
New York, NY (United States)
Residence United States
Citizenship United States
Fields Computer Science, Evolutionary Biology
Institutions Michigan State University
Alma mater California Institute of Technology
Doctoral advisor Christoph Adami
Other academic advisors Richard Lenski
Known for Digital evolution, Avida
Notable awards NSF CAREER Award (2007)
Withrow Distinguished Scholar Award (2006)
Withrow Teaching Excellence Award (2010)
Website
www.ofria.com

Dr. Charles A. Ofria is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Michigan State University, the director of the Digital Evolution (DEvo) Lab there, and a co-founder of the BEACON Center for the Study of Evolution in Action. He is the son of the late Charles Ofria,[1] who developed the first fully integrated shop management program for the automotive repair industry. Ofria attended Stuyvesant High School and graduated from Ward Melville High School in 1991. He obtained a B.S. in Computer Science, Pure Mathematics, and Applied Mathematics from Stony Brook University in 1994, and a Ph.D. in Computation and Neural Systems from the California Institute of Technology in 1999. Ofria's research focuses on the interplay between computer science and Darwinian evolution.[2]

Ofria is one of the designers of Avida, an artificial life software platform to study the evolutionary biology of self-replicating and evolving computer programs (digital organisms, see also Digital organism simulators). Avida has been used extensively to study the basic processes that underlie Darwinian evolution.[3] Avida is under active development in Ofria's Digital Evolution Lab at Michigan State University and was originally designed by Ofria, Chris Adami and C. Titus Brown at Caltech in 1993.

Honors

Ofria received the NSF Career Award in 2007[4] and the Withrow Excellence Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2010[5] and for Excellence in Research in 2006 and 2016.[6]

Representative journal publications

Selected scientific publications featuring Avida

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