Cezary Z. Janikow, Ph.D.

Ph.D. in  Computer Science,  University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, 1991
M.S  in Computer Science,  University of North Carolina - Charlotte, 1987
B,A, in Computer Science,  University of North Carolina - Charlotte, 1986

Publications on Google Scholar (almost 5000 citations)
Listed among top 2% world researchers by Stanford University.
Rank on ScholarGPS 2024
 top 0.5% worldwide
 #23 in decision trees
 #57 in supervised learning
 #106 in genetic algorithms

Check out some of projects I developed with students to help students

• Visual assembler Assembler IDE used in some courses
• Graduate advisor Advisor for MS-CS students with degree planner (rotations being updaed)
• Undergraduate mapping GUI-based tool to map needed courses semester-by-semeter till graduation (rotation being updated)

Main Research Interests

• Artificial intelligence and Evolutionary Computation
• Genetic and Evolutionary Algorithms
  • representation and operators
  • constraints in Genetic Algorithms and Genetic Programming
  • adaptable representation and probabilistic models
• Symbolic Machine Learning
• Fuzzy Decision Tree

Selected Research Involvements

• Author Resource Management
• Music Identification
• Statistical Methods for Recursively Partitioned Trees, Co-PI, supported by NIH.
• Fuzzy Decision Trees, supported by NSF
• Constrained Genetic Programming, in collaboration with NASA/JSC, partly funded by NASA/JSC and UMRB. This tutorial was presented at GP98
• Optimization of the Air Mobility Command (AMC) fleet, as a part of the Business Decision Model (ABDM), under Seidcon and  Unisys

Professional Activities and Teaching 

• Chaired the department from 2013
• Served as a witness expert on software-related court cases
• Served as a grant reviewer and panelist to agencies such as NRC, NSF, etc.
• Taught undergraduate/graduate computer science courses at UNC-Charlotte, MS&T and mostly UMSL
• Delivered the following corporate training to various corporate clients in TX, CA, MO, IL, and CT:
  • OOAD, OO Project Management
  • C and C++
  • JSP
  • iOS Apps Development with Objective-C and Swift

External Grants/Contracts

• "Virtual Mentor". 2018, PI.
• "Team-Based Learning through Apps".  2017. PI.
• "Outbound Notification Administration". 2016. PI.
• "Space Planning". 2013, PI.
• "Big Data Computation". 2013. PI.
• "Social Network Integration". 2012, PI.
• "RMS Tuning Subsystem". 2012. PI.
• "Outbound Notification Administration Console". 2011, PI.
• "OpenVMS Utility". 2011, PI.
• "Member Touch Point Analysis Project". 2010, PI.
• "Member Touch Point Analysis Prototype". 2010, PI.
• "PAP Product and Program Data Access" 2010, PI.
• "PAP Product and Program Data Access". 2009, PI.
• "Professor in Residence". 2009, PI.
• "Project Release Scheduling Tool". 2009, PI.
• "Pharmacy Locator". 2009, PI.
• "Member Portal Tool". 2008, PI.
• "Network Load Testing Tool". 2007, PI.
• "Statistical methods for Recursively Partitioned Trees". NIH. 2002-2005, co-PI.
• "Optimization of the Air Mobility Command". 1998-1999, subcontractor to Unisys.
• "Improving On-Line Aircraft Safety Messaging". ATCOM (US Army), 1997, PI.
• "Fuzzy Decision Trees". NSF. 1995-1996. PI.
• "Constraints in Genetic Programming". NASA/JSC. 1995. PI.
• "Summer Research Fellowship". NASA/JSC, 1995, 1996, 2003, 2004, PI. Also supports for students: 1996, 2003.
• "Summer Research Fellowship". NCRC (Navy), 1992, PI.

UM/UMSL Grants/Contracts

• "Virtual Mentor".  2018. PI.
• "Team-Based Learning through Apps". 2017, PI.
• "Virtual Mentor". ITS 2011, PI.
• "On-line Tutoring". ITS 2011, PI.
• "Virtual Computer Lab". CAS 2011, PI.
• "Constrained Genetic Programming". UMRB 1996, PI.

 

Select Publications

Cezary Z. Janikow and Mark Hauschild. " Automatic Generation of Domain Specific Genetic Algorithm Operators using the Hierarchical Bayesian Optimization Algorithm",   Proceedings of GECCO 2017.

George Gerules and Cezary Z. Janikow. " A Survey of Modularity in Genetic Programming ".  Proceedings of GECCO 2016.

Cezary Z. Janikow and Eryn Cantrell. " FID3.5:Overview and Experimentation ".  Proceedings of NAFIPS 2015.

Cezary Z. Janikow and John Aleshunas. " Commutative versus Non-commutative Functions in Symbolic Regression with Local Heuristics ".  Congress of Evolutionary Computation 2013.

Cezary Z. Janikow, John Aleshunas and Mark W Hauschild.  "Second Order Heuristics in ACGP". GECCO 2011.

Cezary Z. Janikow and Chris J Mann.  “CGP Visits the Santa Fe Trail – Effects of Heuristics on GP”. Proceedings of GECCO 2005, pp. 1697-1704.

Cezary Z. Janikow and Krzysztof Kawa.  “Fuzzy Decision Tree FID”. Proceedings of NAFIPS 2005, pp. 379-384.

Cezary Z. Janikow.  “ACGP: Adaptable Constrained Genetic Programming”. Proceedings of GPTP-2004, pp. 191- 206.

Cezary Z. Janikow.  “FID4.1: an Overview”. Proceedings of NAFIPS 2004, pp. 877-881.

Uday K. Chakraborty and Cezary Z. Janikow.  “An Analysis of Grey versus Binary Encoding in Genetic Search” . Information Sciences, 156(3-4), 2003, pp. 253-269.

Cezary Z. Janikow .  “Fuzzy Decision Trees: Issues and Methods” . IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Vol. 28, Issue 1, pp. 1-14, 1998.

Cezary Z. Janikow .  “A Methodology for Processing Problem Constraints in Genetic Programming” . Computers and Mathematics with Applications, Vol. 32, No. 8, pp. 97-113, 1996.

Z. Michalewicz & Cezary Z. Janikow .  “GENOCOP: A Genetic Algorithm for Numerical Optimization Problems with Constraints” . Communications of the ACM. Vol 39, No. 12, VE (on-line, http://www.acm.org/cacm/extension/ michalew.pdf), 1996.

Cezary Z. Janikow .  “Genetic Information Learning” . In Handbook of Evolutionary Computation, Oxford University Press,

Cezary Z. Janikow  & D. StClair.  “Genetic Algorithms” . IEEE Potentials, Feb/Mar 1995, pp. 31-35.

C.Z. Janikow .  "A Knowledge-Intensive Genetic Algorithm for Supervised Learning" . Machine Learning  13 (2/3) 1993, pp. 189-228.

C.Z. Janikow.  "Combining Competition and Cooperation in Supervised Inductive Learning".  Proceedings of the Ninth International Machine Learning Conference. Morgan Kaufmann, 1992, pp. 241-248.

Z. Michalewicz and C.Z. Janikow.  "Genetic Algorithms for Numerical Optimization". Statistics and Computing (1991), 1, pp. 75-91

Z.W. Ras and C.Z. Janikow .  "Learning Concepts in Rough Environment, an Optimization Procedure" .  Methodologies for Intelligent Systems 2 . Z. Ras & M. Zemankowa (ed.). North-Holland, 1987, pp. 361.