Department of Computer Science

Two best paper awards for Adam Gaier

Monday 21 August 2017

Our PhD candidate Adam Gaier has had a successful summer winning two best paper awards for his current research on surrogate-assisted illumination in design space exploration.

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In June, Adam travelled to the aviation forum of  The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) in Denver where he won first price in the Multidisciplinary Analysis and Optimization (MDO) Student Paper Competition. His award-winning paper Aerodynamic Design Exploration through Surrogate- Assisted Illumination is co-edited by H-BRS professor Alexander Asteroth and french researcher Jean-Baptiste Mouret. Judges and cash prize were provided by NASA, Boeing, and Lockheed-Martin. Adam and his team introduce a novel method for design space exploration and optimization, Surrogate-Assisted Illumination (SAIL). Please click below for a full pdf version of the paper:

Adam Gaier, Alexander Asteroth, Jean-Baptiste Mouret. Aerodynamic Design Exploration through Surrogate- Assisted Illumination. 18th AIAA/ISSMO Multidisciplinary Analysis and Optimization Conference, 2017, Denver, Colorado, United States.

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Just a couple of weeks later, Adam received a best paper award in the complex systems category at the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO) in Berlin for the paper: "Data-Efficient Exploration, Optimization, and Modeling of Diverse Designs through Surrogate-Assisted Illumination". Please click below for a full pdf version of the paper:

Adam Gaier, Alexander Asteroth, Jean-Baptiste Mouret. Data-Efficient Exploration, Optimization, and Modeling of Diverse Designs through Surrogate-Assisted Illumination. Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2017), 2017, Berlin, Germany. 2017.

Congratulations to Adam and his team!