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Terry Soule Professor and Chair of Computer Science

Positions

Participating Faculty, Institute for Modeling Collaboration and Innovation (IMCI)
Affiliate Faculty, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology , College of Science
Chair, Computer Science , College of Engineering
Professor, Computer Science , College of Engineering
Member, Institute for Bioinformatics and Evolutionary Studies (IBEST) , Institute for Interdisciplinary Data Sciences (IIDS)
Research Faculty, Institute for Health in the Human Ecosystem , University of Idaho
Co-founder, Polymorphic Games 2016 -

Terry Soule joined the University of Idaho as a faculty member in 2000 and is currently a full professor and serving as Chair of the Computer Science Department. He also is an adjunct faculty member in the Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (BCB) program. He is co-founder of UI's Polymorphic Games video game studio. He is the father of four of the greatest children ever.

In 1991, Soule received a bachelor's degree in physics from Reed College, followed in 1994 by a master's degree in physics from Washington State University. In 1998, he received a doctorate in computer science from the University of Idaho. Following completion of his doctorate, Soule moved to Minnesota where he joined the St. Cloud State University Department of Computer Science as a faculty member and remained there until returning to the University of Idaho.

Soule’s research focuses on the use of simulated evolution to evolve solutions to complex problems. Current projects include co-evolution of cooperative and competitive systems and incorporating evolving enemies in video games.

In addition to teaching and research, Soule has co-chaired several research conferences, including the European Conference on Genetic Programming (EuroGP) and the annual workshop on Genetic Programming Theory and Practice in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Research Areas

Publications

selected publications

academic article
- A Review of Local Outlier Factor Algorithms for Outlier Detection in Big Data Streams. Big Data and Cognitive Computing. 5:1. 2021
- Thermal Constraints on Energy Balance, Behaviour and Spatial Distribution of Grizzly Bears. Functional Ecology. 2021
- Autonomous Navigation Of Forest Trails By An Industrial-Size Robot. Transactions of the ASABE. 56:1273-1290. 2013
- An improved algorithm for the detection of genomic variation using short oligonucleotide expression microarrays. Molecular Ecology Resources. 12:1079-1089. 2012
- Maximizing microbial degradation of perchlorate using a genetic algorithm: Media optimization. Journal of Biotechnology. 157:189-197. 2012
- Evolutionary Dynamics of Tag Mediated Cooperation with Multilevel Selection. Evolutionary Computation. 19:25-43. 2011
- Stochastic optimization of a biologically plausible spino-neuromuscular system model. Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines. 8:355-380. 2007
- MiCA: a web-based tool for the analysis of microbial communities based on terminal-restriction fragment length polymorphisms of 16S and 18S rRNA genes.. Microbial Ecology. 53. 2007
- Microbial community structure in polluted Baltic Sea sediments. Environmental Microbiology. 8:223-232. 2006
- Resilient individuals improve evolutionary search. Artificial Life. 12:17-34. 2006
- Behavioral Diversity and a Probabilistically Optimal GP Ensemble. Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines. 4:235-253. 2003
- Effects of Code Growth and Parsimony Pressure on Populations in Genetic Programming. Evolutionary Computation. 6:293-309. 1998
- Limiting code growth in genetic programming. Journal of Evolutionary Computation. 6:293-310. 1998
chapter
- Ensemble Classifiers: AdaBoost and Orthogonal Evolution of Teams. Genetic Programming Theory and Practice VIII. Ed. Riolo, Rick L. Ann Arbor. 55-69. 2010
- Crossover and Sampling Biases on Nearly Uniform Landscapes. Genetic Programming Theory and Practice VI. Springer. 75-89. 2009
- Genetic Programming: Theory and Practice an Introduction to Volume VI. Genetic Programming Theory and Practice VI. Springer. 1-18. 2009
- The evolution of size and shape. Advances in Genetic Programming. 162-191. 1999
conference paper
- Learned Anticipation Strategy for Speed Control in an AUV Fleet. 2013 OCEANS - San Diego. 2014
- A Comparison of a Communication Strategies in Cooperative Learning. Proceedings of The Fourteenth International Conference On Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference. 153-160. 2012
- Ensemble Classifiers: Adaboost and Orthogonal Evolution of Teams. Genetic Programming Theory and Practice VIII. 55-69. 2011
- Ordering Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Inspection Locations with a Genetic Algorithm. OCEANS 2010 MTS/IEEE SEATTLE. 2010
- Enabling Autonomous Underwater Vehicles to Reason Hypothetically. OCEANS 2009. 1778-1784. 2010
- Enabling Autonomous Underwater Vehicles to Reason Hypothetically. OCEANS 2009. 1778-1784. 2010
- Assessing mental workload from skin conductance and pupillometry using wavelets and genetic programming. Annual Meeting of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society. 2010
- Parameterized Computational Imaging: Data Driven Computational Modeling for Image Extension. 3747-3750. 2009
- Simulating Human Reasoning in Mine-Like Object Inspection Assignments for a Formation of Unmanned Underwater Vehicles. At-Equal 2009: 2009 ECSIS Symposium on Advanced Technologies for Enhanced Quality of Life: Lab-RS and Artiped 2009. 158-162. 2009
- Inverse Computational Feedback Optimization Imaging Applied to Time Varying Changes in a Homogeneous Structure. 3630-3633. 2008
- Autonomous navigation of an unmanned ground vehicle in unstructured forest terrain. 2008 ECSIS Symposium on Learning and Adaptive Behaviors for Robotic Systems - LAB-RS 2008, Proceedings. 103-108. 2008
- Improving performance and cooperation in multi-agent systems. Genetic Programming Theory and Practice V. 2008
- Training time and team composition robustness in evolved multi-agent systems. Genetic Programming (EuroGP) 2008. Proceedings. 2008
- Evolutionary optimization of cooperative heterogeneous teams . Evolutionary and Bio-Inspired Computation: Theory and Applications. 56306-56306. 2007
- Genetic programming: Parametric analysis of structure altering mutation techniques. Parameter Setting in Evolutionary Algorithms. 143-160. 2007
- Genetic programming: Theory and practice. Genetic Programming Theory and Practice IV. 1-10. 2007
- Genetic programming: Theory and practice - An introduction to volume V. Genetic Programming Theory and Practice V. 1-12. 2007
- Novel Ways of Improving Cooperation and Performance in Ensemble Classifiers. GECCO 2007: Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, Vol 1 & 2. 1708-1715. 2007
- Orthogonal evolution of teams: A class of algorithms for evolving teams with inversely correlated errors. Genetic Programming Theory and Practice IV. 2007
- Stochastic Training of a Biologically Plausible Spino-neuromuscular System Model. GECCO 2007: Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, Vol 1 & 2. 253-260. 2007
- A survey of mutation techniques in genetic programming. Genetic and Evolutionary Computation (GECCO) 2006. Proceedings. 951-952. 2006
- Comparing genetic robustness in generational vs. steady state evolutionary algorithms. Genetic and Evolutionary Computation (GECCO) 2006. Proceedings. 143-149. 2006
- Dynamics of evolutionary robustness. Genetic and Evolutionary Computation (GECCO) 2006. Proceedings. 871-878. 2006
- Genetic programming: Optimal population sizes for varying complexity problems. Genetic and Evolutionary Computation (GECCO) 2006. Proceedings. 953-954. 2006
- Growth of self-canceling code in evolutionary systems. Genetic and Evolutionary Computation (GECCO) 2006. Proceedings. 223-228. 2006
- Redundant genes and the evolution of robustness. Genetic and Evolutionary Computation (GECCO) 2006. Proceedings. 959-960. 2006
- Evolutionary training of a biologically realistic spino-neuromuscular system. 2005 IEEE International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN). 280-285. 2005
- A layered decision model for cost-effective network defense. Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration. 506-511. 2005
- Breeding swarms: A GA/PSO hybrid. GECCO 2005: 7th annual Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference. 161-168. 2005
- Breeding swarms: A new approach to recurrent neural network training. GECCO 2005: 7th annual Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference. 185-192. 2005
- Exploiting disruption aversion to control code bloat. GECCO 2005: 7th annual Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference. 1605-1612. 2005
- Function choice, resiliency and growth in genetic programming. GECCO 2005: 7th annual Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference. 1771-1772. 2005
- A study of the role of single node mutation in genetic programming. Genetic and Evolutionary Computation (GECCO) 2004. Proceedings. Part II. 717-718. 2004
- How to choose appropriate function sets for gentic programming. Genetic Programming (EuroGP) 2004. Proceedings. 198-207. 2004
- Non-stationary subtasks can improve diversity in stationary tasks. Genetic and Evolutionary Computation (GECCO) 2004. Proceedings. Part II. 307-317. 2004
- Evolving a strongly recurrent neural network to simulate biological neurons. 28th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, 2002. 3191-3195. 2003
- Comparison of genetic algorithm and particle swarm optimizer when evolving a recurrent neural network. Genetic and Evolutionary Computation (GECCO) 2003. Proceedings. Part I. 148-149. 2003
- Cooperative evolution on the intertwined spirals problem. Genetic Programming (EuroGP) 2003. Proceedings. 434-442. 2003
- Operator choice and the evolution of robust solutions. Genetic Programming Theory and Practice. 257-269. 2003
- Solution stability in evolutionary computation. International Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences (ISCIS) 2002. Proceedings. 237-241. 2003
- MiCA: web-based computational tools for the analysis of microbial community structure and composition based on T-RFLP of 16S rRNA genes. Proceedings of the IEEE 1st Bioinformatics Conference. 341-341. 2002
- N-Version Genetic Programming via Fault Masking. Genetic Programming (EuroGP) 2002. Proceedings. 172-181. 2002
- Computational complexity, genetic programming, and implications. Genetic Programming (EuroGP) 2001. Proceedings. 348-360. 2001
- Quantum evolutionary programming. Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference. 2001
- Removal bias: A new cause of code growth in tree based evolutionary programming. 1998 IEEE International Conference on Evolutionary Computation - Proceedings. 781-786. 1998
- Code size and depth flows in genetic programming. International Conference on Genetic Programming. 313-320. 1997
- Genetic algorithm hardness measures applied to the maximum clique problem. International Conference on Genetic Algorithms. 81-88. 1997
- Code growth in genetic programming. International Conference on Genetic Programming. 215-223. 1996
- Using genetic programming to approximate maximum cliques. International Conference on Genetic Programming. 400-405. 1996
working paper
- Evolutionary Training of a Biologically Realistic Spino-neuromuscular System 2005

editor of

book
- Genetic Programming Theory and Practice VI. Boston, MA: Springer. 2009
proceedings
- (GECCO) 2012 Annual Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation 2012
- Genetic Programming (EuroGP) 2004. Proceedings

Research

principal investigator on

Orthogonal Evolution of Teams: Evolving Teams of Specialized Members for Robust Intelligence awarded by NSF Division of Information and Intelligent Systems (IIS) 2006 - 2008

co-principal investigator on

REU Site: Summer Computational Neuroscience & Technology Research Experience for Undergraduates awarded by NSF Division of Engineering Education & Centers (EEC) 2004 - 2007

Teaching

is major professor for

Background

education and training

Ph.D. in Computer Science, University of Idaho 1998
M.S. in Physics, Washington State University 1994
B.A. in Physics, Reed College 1991

Contact

full name

Terry Soule