Stefan Schliebs, PhD candidate

Stefan has received a Diploma in Computer Science (Masters degree equivalent) at the University of Leipzig, Germany, in 2006. In his Diploma thesis he has worked on neural network based agents and genetic algorithms. He is currently enrolled in the final year of a PhD program in Computer Science at the Auckland University of Technology in New Zealand under the supervision of Prof Nikola Kasabov and Dr Michael Defoin-Platel. In March 2010, he has submitted his thesis and is now waiting for the viva (final examination) in order to complete his studies. During his PhD time he has explored a the areas of evolutionary computation with a focus on probabilistic methods, namely Estimation of Distribution Algorithms (EDA). He has investigated these methods in the context of feature selection problems and parameter optimization of spiking neural networks. The recent developments in the area of spiking neural networks are in particular interesting to Stefan. He is interested in the neuro-scientific aspects of neural modelling but also their applications for real world problems as novel computational tools.

Contact Information

Auckland University of Technology
Knowledge Engineering and Discovery Research Institute
WZ Building, Level 7,
350 Queen Street
Auckland 1010
New Zealand

email: stefan.schliebs (at) aut.ac.nz
phone: +64 9 921-9526