Kenneth Stanley

Kenneth O. Stanley
Alma materUniversity of Texas at Austin (PhD)
Known forNeuroevolution of augmenting topologies
Scientific career
Fields
Institutions
ThesisEfficient Evolution of Neural Networks Through Complexification (2004)
Doctoral advisorRisto Miikkulainen
Websitewww.cs.ucf.edu/~kstanley/

Kenneth Owen Stanley is an artificial intelligence researcher, author, and former professor of computer science at the University of Central Florida known for creating the Neuroevolution of augmenting topologies (NEAT) algorithm. He coauthored Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned: The Myth of the Objective with Joel Lehman which argues for the existence of the "objective paradox", a paradox which states that "soon as you create an objective, you ruin your ability to reach it".[1] While a professor at the University of Central Florida, he was the director of the Evolutionary Complexity Research Group (EPlex)[2] which led the development of Galactic Arms Race. He also developed the HyperNEAT,[3] CPPNs,[4] and novelty search[5] algorithms.[6] He also co-founded Geometric Intelligence, an AI research firm, in 2015.[7][8]

  1. ^ Aschwanden, Christie (23 July 2015). "Stop Trying To Be Creative". FiveThirtyEight. Retrieved 5 April 2022.
  2. ^ "EPlex People". eplex.cs.ucf.edu. Retrieved 5 April 2022.
  3. ^ Stanley, Kenneth O.; D'Ambrosio, David B.; Gauci, Jason (2009-01-14). "A Hypercube-Based Encoding for Evolving Large-Scale Neural Networks". Artificial Life. 15 (2): 185–212. doi:10.1162/artl.2009.15.2.15202. ISSN 1064-5462. PMID 19199382. S2CID 26390526. Retrieved 30 May 2022.
  4. ^ Kenneth O. Stanley (2007). "Compositional Pattern Producing Networks: A Novel Abstraction of Development" (PDF). Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines. 8 (2): 131–162. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.643.8179. doi:10.1007/s10710-007-9028-8. S2CID 2535195. Retrieved 30 May 2022.
  5. ^ Lehman, Joel; Stanley, Kenneth O. (June 2011). "Abandoning Objectives: Evolution Through the Search for Novelty Alone". Evolutionary Computation. 19 (2): 189–223. doi:10.1162/EVCO_a_00025. ISSN 1063-6560. PMID 20868264. S2CID 12129661. Retrieved 30 May 2022.
  6. ^ "Uber Engineering Blog". Uber Engineering Blog. 30 June 2020. Retrieved 30 May 2022.
  7. ^ "Uber acquires Geometric Intelligence to create an AI lab". TechCrunch. Retrieved 31 May 2022.
  8. ^ Schlueb, Mark (3 July 2017). "UCF Professor Talks About Why Uber Acquired His Tech Startup". University of Central Florida News | UCF Today. Retrieved 9 June 2022.