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Lee Altenberg , Ph.D.

Graduate Faculty, Department of Information and Computer Sciences, University of Hawai`i at Mānoa
Graduate Faculty, Ecology, Evolution, and Conservation Biology Specialization, University of Hawai`i at Mānoa
Associate Editor, BioSystems
Editorial Board, Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines
Editorial Board, Artificial Life
IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, Task Force on Artificial Life and Complex Adaptive Systems. Since 2007.
Research Scholar, Ronin Institute. Since 2013.
2020-2021: Adj Full Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of Hawai`i at Mānoa
2002-2007, 2016-2020: Associate Professor, Department of Information and Computer Sciences, University of Hawai`i at Mānoa
2014-2016: Senior Fellow, The Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research, Klosterneuburg, Austria
2011-2013: Board of Directors, Maui Classical Music Festival
2005-2006: Chair, Native Hawaiian Plant Society, Maui
2001-2009: Founding Board of Directors, International Society for Artificial Life
1999-2007: Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation

E-mail:	altenber@hawaii.edu
Web:	https://dynamics.org/Altenberg/
Office:	1680 East-West Road, P.O.S.T. 317, Honolulu, Hawai`i U.S.A. 96822

My research focuses on the dynamics of evolutionary processes. I am particularly interested in higher order phenomena, such as the evolution of evolvability, the evolution of the genotype-phenotype map, including modularity, and the evolution of genetic systems. My work also addresses theoretical problems in evolutionary computation.

I have also worked in conservation on Maui as a part of what I consider to be an evolutionary biologist's professional obligation to preserve the products of evolution that bless Hawai`i so remarkably.

Key Papers

Altenberg, L. 2012. Resolvent Positive Linear Operators Exhibit the Reduction Phenomenon. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 109 (10): 3705-3710.

Altenberg, L. 2012. The Evolution of Dispersal in Random Environments and the Principle of Partial Control. Ecological Monographs 82(3): 297-333.

Wagner, G. P. and L. Altenberg. 1996. Complex adaptations and the evolution of evolvability. Evolution 50 (3): 967-976.

Altenberg, L. 1995. Genome growth and the evolution of the genotype-phenotype map. In Evolution and Biocomputation: Computational Models of Evolution, ed. Wolfgang Banzhaf and Frank H. Eeckman. Lecture Notes in Computer Science vol. 899. Springer-Verlag, pp. 205-259.

Lee Altenberg growing the endangered `ohai

Maui Sesbania tomentosa (arborea) grown from remnant 7 plants of this species.

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