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Kenneth De Jong

Computer Science · Indiana University

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Established · publishing since 1979
Evolutionary Algorithms and ApplicationsMetaheuristic Optimization Algorithms ResearchPhonetics and Phonology ResearchLinguistic Variation and MorphologyAdvanced Multi-Objective Optimization Algorithms

Publications

333

Citations

15,070

Est. group size

—

Recurring co-author estimate

Active years

47

Publishing since 1979

Research summary
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Kenneth De Jong works in evolutionary computation, a family of optimization methods inspired by biological evolution that are used to solve difficult search and design problems. Recent work includes developing and analyzing evolutionary algorithms (including asynchronous and knowledge-transfer variants) and applying evolution-inspired methods to problems like protein structure sampling and evolving neural networks for robotic memory tasks. The publication record also appears alongside work in phonetics and phonology (speech sound perception and production).

Evolutionary algorithms and optimizationEvolutionary knowledge transfer and multitask computationNeuroevolution and neural networksApplications to protein conformation samplingPhonetics and speech perception (associated record)

Publication activity has generally slowed over the last decade, declining from around a dozen papers per year in 2017 to only one or two in recent years.

Generated by claude-opus-4-8 from public bibliographic data · Jul 9, 2026

Funding
Public award records

No award with a current end date on record.

5 earlier awards
  • NSF 1763233Jul 2018 – Aug 2022 · $499k awarded

    III: Medium: Collaborative Research: Guiding Exploration of Protein Structure Spaces with Deep Learning

  • NSF 1625039Sep 2016 – Aug 2019 · $450k awarded

    MRI: Acquisition of a Shared Scalable Research Storage System

  • NSF 1302256Sep 2013 – Aug 2017 · $475k awarded

    RI: Medium: Collaborative Research: BCSP: Automated Parameter Tuning of Large-Scale Spiking Neural Networks

  • NSF 0921129Sep 2009 – Aug 2011 · $12k awarded

    Doctoral Dissertation Research: Category Structure of Pitch Accent in the Mid-Western Japanese Dialects

  • NIH R03DC004095Sep 2000 – Aug 2004 · $71k awarded

    ARTICULATORY AND PERCEPTUAL CORRELATES OF SYLLABLE STRUC

Matched to public NIH RePORTER and NSF records by name and institution. Awards from other agencies are not shown, and a match is not always found — this list may be incomplete.

In context
Among 649 established Computer Science PIs within our index
Citations: 15,070cohort median 1,725
h-index: 54cohort median 19
Publications / year (recent): 2.6cohort median 4.2

Typically publishes in teams of ~3 · 55% small-team papers (≤3 authors) · across 24 venues

Publication cadence
Publications per year over the last 10 years — averaging 2.6/year recently
2017: 12 publications12172018: 8 publications182019: 6 publications192020: 4 publications202021: 7 publications212022: 4 publications222023: 6 publications232024: 1 publication242025: 2 publications2526
Collaborators per year
Distinct co-authors at Indiana University each year — a rough indication of whether the group around this researcher has been growing or contracting. An estimate from co-authorship, not a roster: collaborators are not necessarily lab members, and recent years can be under-counted while indexing catches up.
2017: 0 collaborators at the same institution2018: 2 collaborators at the same institution2019: 0 collaborators at the same institution2020: 5 collaborators at the same institution2021: 0 collaborators at the same institution2022: 0 collaborators at the same institution2023: 0 collaborators at the same institution2024: 0 collaborators at the same institution2025: 0 collaborators at the same institution1719212325
Recent publications
Publishes in
  • Figshare×14
  • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America×9
  • Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference Companion×8
  • Journal of Phonetics×4
  • IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics×2
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Last updated Sep 1, 2026.

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