Dr. David Fogel received the Ph.D. in engineering sciences (systems science) from UCSD in 1992. He earned a B.S. degree in mathematical sciences (probability and statistics) from UCSB in 1985. Dr. Fogel is an internationally recognized scientist, speaker, and engineer. In 1999, he was elevated to the status of IEEE Fellow, the then second-youngest Fellow in the history of the world’s largest organization of professional engineers. In 2004, he received an IEEE Technical Field Award, and he has received numerous other distinctions, including San Diego Distinguished Scientist of the Year from Sigma Xi, the CajAstur Prize for Soft Computing, and he received an honorary doctorate in 2008 from the University of Pretoria. In 2009, Dr. Fogel was named one of the top-100 most influential alumni in the then 50-year history of the University of California at San Diego. In 2014, Dr. Fogel was recognized as an “AI Hero” by the 150-member artificial intelligence team at Lockheed Martin. Dr. Fogel’s experience includes 30 years of pioneering contributions in the field of computational intelligence. He has over 200 technical publications, and a variety of non-technical articles for general audiences. In 1996, Dr. Fogel became the founding editor-in-chief of the IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, which now ranks typically in the top 3 of all computer science journals for impact factor annually. He also served as editor-in-chief of BioSystems from 2001-2008. In 1993, Dr. Fogel co-founded Natural Selection, Inc., an award-winning woman-owned small business that focuses on applying computational intelligence to challenging problems. In 2006, Dr. Fogel co-founded Natural Selection Financial, Inc. a registered investment advisory firm and served as a hedge fund manager from 2008-2010. Dr. Fogel also is a co-inventor of EffectCheck(R), an online system for evaluating the emotional content in communication.
