Kenneth De Jong
Kenneth Alan De Jong is an American computer scientist and professor emeritus at George Mason University. He is one of the pioneers in evolutionary computation.
Education and career
De Jong was a student of John Henry Holland at the University of Michigan, where he completed a Ph.D. in 1975 with a dissertation on genetic algorithms. He became a faculty member at George Mason University in 1984.He is the author of the textbook Evolutionary Computation: A Unified Approach, and was the founding editor-in-chief of the journal Evolutionary Computation, which published its first volume in 1993.