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Curriculum Vitae

Education Employment Research Interests Professional Service Awards & Honors Research Projects Publications Presentations Teaching Professional Memberships

Education

2006	Graduate Certificate	Microbial Biodefense	National Center for Biodefense & Infectious Diseases, George Mason University
2005	Ph.D.	Information Technology	George Mason University
1999	M.S.	Civil Engineering	Warsaw University of Technology

Employment

2005-present	Research Assistant Professor	The Volgenau School of Information Technology & Engineering, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA
2004-2005	Assistant Research Instructor	School of Information Technology & Engineering, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA
2000-2004	Graduate Research Assistant	Department of Civil, Environmental and Infrastructure Engineering, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA
1998-2000	Product Manager	Nemetschek Poland, Warsaw, Poland
1997-1998	CAD Specialist	Bentley Systems Poland, Warsaw, Poland

Research Interests

Engineering Design	Interdisciplinary Approaches to Engineering Design, Design Inspired by Nature, Inventive Design, Design Optimization, Design for Security, Computational Mechanics
Homeland Security	Critical Infrastructure Protection, Mathematical Models of Counterterrorism, Biodefense, Infrastructure Vulnerability Assessment
Evolutionary Computation	Evolutionary Design, Evolutionary Developmental Systems, Coevolutionary Design, Evolutionary Multiobjective Algorithms
Complex Systems	Cellular Automata, Dynamical Systems Theory, Chaos Theory, New Kind of Science, L-systems

Professional Service

2006-present	Associate Editor	Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering, American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
2006	Reviewer	Congress of Evolutionary Computation (CEC 2006), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
2006	Reviewer	Journal of Machine Graphics & Vision, Institute of Computer Science of the Polish Academy of Sciences
2005-present	Best Paper Editor	Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering, American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
2005-present	Member	ASCE Global Center of Excellence in Computing, American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
2005	Reviewer	AIAA Journal, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)
2005	Reviewer	Information Sciences, Informatics and Computer Science Intelligent Systems Applications, An International Journal, Elsevier
2005	Reviewer	Congress of Evolutionary Computation (CEC 2005), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
2004	Workshop Co-organizer	Built Infrastructure Security Workshop, The School of Law, George Mason University
2004	Reviewer	Congress of Evolutionary Computation (CEC 2004), Special Session on Evolutionary Design
2002-present	Reviewer	Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering, American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)

Awards/Honors/Scholarships/Fellowships

2006	Small Exploratory Research Grant Award	National Science Foundation, Arlington, VA
2005	International Internship Award	21st Century Center of Excellence of Flow Dynamics, Institute of Fluid Science, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
2005	Post-Doctoral Fellowship Award	Critical Infrastructure Protection Program, George Mason University, Arlington, VA
2004	Outstanding Graduate Student Award	School of Information Technology and Engineering, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA
2004	Outstanding Graduate Award	Department of Civil, Environmental and Infrastructure Engineering, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA
2004	Best Use of Technology Award	Innovations 2004 Exhibition, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA
2003	Alumnus	New Kind of Science Summer School, Brown University, Providence, RI
2003	Graduate Research Assistantship (2nd year)	School of Information Technology & Engineering, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA
2003	Fellowship Award	School of Information Technology & Engineering, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA
2002	Graduate Research Assistantship	School of Information Technology & Engineering, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA
2002	Fellowship Award	School of Information Technology & Engineering, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA
2002	Who's Who Among Students In American Universities & Colleges Award	George Mason University, Fairfax, VA
2001	Membership Award and later Student Vice-President	Phi Beta Delta, Honor Society for International Scholars, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA
2000-2001	Interdisciplinary Scholarship	Office of the Provost, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA
1999	Summa Cum Laude Alumnus Award	Department of Civil Engineering, Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland
1998-1999	Merit Scholarship	Polish Ministry of National Education, Warsaw, Poland
1994	Summa Cum Laude Gold Medal	Building Technical School, Bytom, Poland

Research Projects

2006-present	Emergent Engineering Design: Feasibility Study	Sponsored by the National Science Foundation, Arlington, VA
2005-2006	Transportation Systems Security: Self-Organizing Traffic Management Hazard Response System	Sponsored by Critical Infrastructure Protection Program, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA
2005	Bridge Security: Intelligent Vulnerability Assessment	Sponsored by Critical Infrastructure Protection Program, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA
2005	Capital Budgeting and Resource Allocation Methodology for Critical Infrastructure Protection	Sponsored by Critical Infrastructure Protection Program, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA
2005	Multiobjective Structural Design	Sponsored by the 21st Century Center of Excellence in Fluid Dynamics, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
2003-2004	Emergent Designer: A Design Support Tool Based on Models of Complex Adaptive Systems	Sponsored by the Volgenau School of Information Technology & Engineering and Critical Infrastructure Protection Program, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA
2002-2003	Engineering Education: Personal Air Vehicles	Sponsored by NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA
2000-2001	Inventive Design: An Evolutionary Computation Approach	Sponsored by NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA

Publications

Book sections

2006	Kicinger, R., and Arciszewski, T. "Empirical analysis of memetic algorithms for conceptual design of steel structural systems in tall buildings." Advances in Engineering Structures, Mechanics & Construction, M. Pandey, W.-C. Xie, and L. Xu, eds., Springer-Verlag, New York, 277-288.
2005	Arciszewski, T. and Kicinger, R. "Structural design inspired by nature." Innovation in Civil and Structural Engineering Computing, B. H. V. Topping, ed., Saxe-Coburg Publications, Stirling, Scotland, 25-48.
2004	Kicinger, R., Arciszewski, T., and De Jong, K. A. "Morphogenic evolutionary design: cellular automata representations in topological structural design." Adaptive Computing in Design and Manufacture VI, I. C. Parmee, ed., Springer-Verlag, London, UK, 25-38.

Journal Articles

2006	Bronzini, M. and Kicinger, R. "Conceptual model of a self-organizing traffic management hazard response system." Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, 1942, 1-8.
2005	Kicinger, R., Arciszewski, T., and De Jong, K. A. "Emergent Designer: An integrated research and design support tool based on models of complex systems," International Journal of Information Technology in Construction, 10, 329-347.
2005	Kicinger, R., Arciszewski, T., and De Jong, K. A. "Evolutionary computation and structural design: a survey of the state of the art." Computers & Structures, 83(23-24), 1943-1978.
2005	Kicinger, R., Arciszewski, T., and De Jong, K. A. "Evolutionary design of steel structures in tall buildings." Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering, 19(3), 223-238.
2004	Oguejiofor, E., Kicinger, R., Popovici, E., Arciszewski, T., and De Jong, K. A. "Intelligent tutoring systems: an ontology-based approach." International Journal of IT in Architecture, Engineering and Construction, 2(2), 115-128.

Conference Proceedings

2006	Kicinger, R. and Bronzini, M."Model of a self-organizing traffic management hazard response system." Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on the Applications of Advanced Technology in Transportation, Chicago, IL, August 13-16, 2006, K. Wang et al., eds., American Society of Civil Engineers, Reston, VA, 374-380.
2005	Kicinger, R., Arciszewski, T., and De Jong, K. A. "Parameterized versus generative representations in structural design: An empirical comparison." Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2005), Washington, DC, June 25-29, 2005, H.-G. Beyer et al., eds., The Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, 2007-2015.
2005	Kicinger, R., Arciszewski, T., and De Jong, K. A. "Generative design in structural engineering." Proceedings of the 2005 ASCE International Conference on Computing in Civil Engineering, Cancun, Mexico, July 12-15, 2005, L. Soibelman and F. Peña-Mora, eds., American Society of Civil Engineers Press, Reston, VA.
2004	Kicinger, R., and Arciszewski, T. " Multiobjective evolutionary design of steel structures in tall buildings." Proceedings of the AIAA 1st Intelligent Systems Technical Conference Chicago, IL, September 20-23, 2004, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Press, Reston, VA, AIAA 2004-6438.
2004	Kicinger, R., Arciszewski, T., and De Jong, K. A. "Emergent Designer: An integrated research and design support tool based on models of complex systems." Proceedings of the Workshop on the Implementation Issues in Generative Design Systems at the First International Conference on Design Computing and Cognition (DCC'04), Massachusetts Institute of technology, Cambridge, MA, July 17-21, 2004, L. G. Caldas and J. P. Duarte, eds., MIT, Cambridge, MA, 93-112.
2004	Kicinger, R., Arciszewski, T., and De Jong, K. A. "Morphogenesis and structural design: cellular automata representations of steel structures in tall buildings." Proceedings of the Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC'2004), Portland, Oregon, June 19-23, 2004, IEEE Press, Piscataway, NJ, 411-418.
2004	Kicinger, R. "Cellular automata in structural design." Proceedings of the Second International Conference on the New Kind of Science (NKS 2004), Boston, MA, April 22-25, 2004, Wolfram Media, Urbana-Champaign, IL.
2004	Kicinger, R., Arciszewski, T., and De Jong, K. A. "Distributed evolutionary design: island-model based optimization of steel skeleton structures in tall buildings." Proceedings of the Xth International Conference on Computing in Civil and Building Engineering (ICCCBE-X), Weimar, Germany, June 2-4, 2004, K. Beucke, B. Firmenich, D. Donath, R. Fruchter, and K. Roddis, eds., VDG, Weimar, Germany, 190.
2003	Arciszewski, T., De Jong, K. A., Sage, A., Goode, M., Kicinger, R., and Skolicki, Z. "Proactive infrastructure security: evolutionary generation of terrorist scenarios." Proceedings of the Workshop on the Critical Infrastructure Protection Project, Airlie Center, Warrenton, VA, August, 2003, A. Woodcock and K. Thomas, eds., George Mason University Press, Fairfax, VA, 378-391.
2003	Kicinger, R., Arciszewski, T., and De Jong, K. A. "Conceptual design in structural engineering: an evolutionary computation approach." Proceedings of the 2nd International Specialty Conference on the Conceptual Approach to Structural Design, Milan, Italy, July 1-2, 2003, CI-Premier PTE Ltd., Singapore, 529-536.
2003	Oguejiofor, E., Kicinger, R., Popovici, E., Arciszewski, T., and De Jong, K. A. "George Mason University Intelligent Educator." Innovative Developments in Architecture, Engineering and Construction. Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Innovation in Architecture, Engineering and Construction, Loughborough University, UK, 25 - 27 June 2003, C. J. Anumba, ed., Millpress Science Publishers, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 355-366.
2002	Skolicki, Z., and Kicinger, R. "Intelligent agent for designing steel skeleton structures of tall buildings." Computing in Civil Engineering. Proceedings of the International Workshop on Information Technology in Civil Engineering, Washington, DC, November 2-3, 2002, A. D. Songer and J. C. Miles, eds., Reston, VA, 25-35.
2002	Kicinger, R., De Jong, K. A., and Arciszewski, T. "Long term versus short term evolutionary design." Advances in Intelligent Computing in Engineering. Proceedings of the 9th International Workshop of the European Group for Intelligent Computing in Engineering, Darmstadt, Germany, August 1-2, 2002, M. Schnellenbach-Held and H. Denk, eds., VDI Verlag, Düsseldorf, Germany, 184-195.

Other Papers (Posters, Technical Reports, Etc.)

2006	Kicinger, R. "Evolutionary developmental system for structural design." Developmental Systems. Papers from the AAAI Fall Symposium. Technical Report FS-06-03, The American Association for Artificial Intelligence, Menlo Park, CA, 1-8.
2006	Bronzini, M. and Kicinger, R. "Conceptual model of a self-organizing traffic management hazard response system." 2006 Transportation Research Board 85th Annual Meeting, (poster).
2005	Arciszewski, T. and Kicinger, R. "Critical Infrastructure Protection." The Critical Infrastructure Protection Report, 3(10), 7. (newsletter article)
2005	Kicinger, R. "Working together: Research & development partnerships in homeland security." The Critical Infrastructure Protection Report, 3(10), 4. (newsletter article)
2005	Arciszewski, T., and Kicinger, R. "Proactive security: From evolutionary approaches to cellular automata." Proceedings of the Working Together: Conference on Public/Private R&D Partnerships in Homeland Security, Boston, MA, April 26-28, 2005. (poster)

Presentations

October 13, 2006	Evolutionary developmental system for structural design	Presentation at the American Association for Artificial Intelligence Fall Symposium, Hyatt Crystal City, Arlington, VA
August 15, 2006	Model of a self-organizing traffic management hazard response system	with Michael Bronzini, Presentation at the Ninth International Conference on the Applications of Advanced Technology in Transportation, Wyndham Chicago Hotel, Chicago, IL
June 16, 2006	Generative design in civil engineering using cellular automata	Presentation at the 3rd New Kind of Science Conference, The Fairmont Hotel, Washington, DC
January 24, 2006	Conceptual model of a self-organizing traffic management hazard response system	with Michael Bronzini, Presentation at the Transportation Security Research Poster Session during the Transportation Research Board 85th Annual Meeting, Omni Shoreham Hotel, Washington, DC
October 11, 2005	Reactive and proactive infrastructure security	Joint Meeting with the Norwegian Defense Research Establishment, Critical Infrastructure Protection Program, George Mason University, Arlington, VA
August 31, 2005	Structural design inspired by nature	with Tomasz Arciszewski, The Eighth International Conference on the Application of Artificial Intelligence to Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering, Hotel Villa Pamphili, Rome, Italy (invited lecture)
July 1, 2005	Critical infrastructure protection: Reactive and proactive security	Joint Meeting with the Norwegian Critical Infrastructure Protection Commission, Critical Infrastructure Protection Program, George Mason University, Arlington, VA
June 27, 2005	Parameterized versus generative representations in structural design: An empirical comparison	Genetic and Evolutionary Algorithms Conference (GECCO'2005), L'Enfant Plaza Hotel, Washington, DC
June 21, 2005	Parameterized versus generative representations in structural design: An empirical comparison	Genetic Algorithms Group Meeting, Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA
April 27, 2005	Proactive Infrastructure Security: From Evolutionary Approaches to the Use of Cellular Automata	Poster presentation at the Working Together: Conference on Public/Private R&D Partnerships in Homeland Security, Session on Critical Infrastructure Protection, The Seaport Hotel and World Trade Center, Boston, MA
February 24, 2005	Design creativity and optimality inspired by nature	Institute of Fluid Science Seminar, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
February 22, 2005	Design inspired by nature	21st Century Center of Excellence of Flow Dynamics Research Exchange Meeting, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
February 15, 2005	Morphogenesis and engineering design: Design creativity and optimality inspired by nature	Department of Knowledge Engineering and Computer Sciences Seminar, Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan
October 15, 2004	Emergent Engineering Design: Design creativity and optimality inspired by nature	Ph.D. Dissertation Defense, School of Information Technology & Engineering, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA
October 7, 2004	Emergent Engineering Design: Design creativity and optimality inspired by nature	Genetic Algorithms Group Meeting, Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA
September 24, 2004	Morphogenesis and engineering design	Civil, Environmental and Infrastructure Engineering Department Seminar, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA
September 21, 2004	Multiobjective evolutionary design of steel structures in tall buildings	AIAA 1st Intelligent Systems Technical Conference, Chicago Hilton, Chicago, IL
July 17, 2004	Emergent Designer: An integrated research and design support tool based on models of complex systems	with Tomasz Arciszewski, Workshop on Implementation Issues in Generative Design Systems, First International Conference on Design Computing and Cognition (DCC'04), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
June 20, 2004	Morphogenesis and structural design: Cellular automata representations of steel structures in tall buildings	Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC'2004), Marriott Downtown Hotel, Portland, OR
June 17, 2004	Morphogenesis and structural design: Cellular automata representations of steel structures in tall buildings	Genetic Algorithms Group Meeting, Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA
June 3, 2004	Distributed evolutionary design: Island-model based optimization of steel skeleton structures in tall buildings	with Tomasz Arciszewski, 10th International Conference on Computing in Civil and Building Engineering (ICCCBE-X), Weimar Halle, Weimar, Germany
April 25, 2004	Cellular automata in structural design	Poster presentation at the 2nd New Kind of Science Conference (NKS2004), Westin Waltham Hotel, Boston, MA
April 25, 2004	Cellular automata in structural design	2nd New Kind of Science Conference (NKS2004), Westin Waltham Hotel, Boston, MA (invited lecture)
April 23, 2004	Engineering design inspired by nature	Abaqus Inc. Corporate Headquarters, Rising Sun Mills, Providence, RI
April 21, 2004	Emergent Designer: A design support tool based on models of complex systems	Poster presentation at the Sixth International Conference on Adaptive Computing in Design and Manufacture (ACDM'2004), Engineers House, Bristol, UK
April 21, 2004	Morphogenic evolutionary design: Cellular automata representations in topological structural design	Sixth International Conference on Adaptive Computing in Design and Manufacture (ACDM'2004), Engineers House, Bristol, UK
October 22, 2003	Engineering creativity: From design and inventive engineering to evolutionary designing	with Tomasz Arciszewski, Motorola Fall Science Advisory Board Associates Meeting, Crystal City Marriott, Arlington, VA
June 12, 2003	Experimental design & methodology	with Paul Wiegand, Evolutionary Computation Laboratory, 2003 Summer Lecture Series, Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA
November 2, 2002	Intelligent agent for designing steel skeleton structures of tall buildings	with Zbigniew Skolicki, International Symposium on Information Technology in Civil Engineering, 2002 ASCE Annual Conference, Washington Convention Center, Washington, DC
October 31, 2002	Inventor 2001: Evolutionary design support tool for steel skeleton structures	'Evolutionary Designing Feast', Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA
August 29, 2002	Vose explained	Evolutionary Computation Laboratory, 2002 Summer Lecture Series, Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA
August 2, 2002	Long term versus short term evolutionary design	9th International Workshop of the European Group for Intelligent Computing in Engineering, Darmstadt University of Technology, Darmstadt, Germany
August 2, 2002	Coevolutionary design	with Tomasz Arciszewski, 9th International Workshop of the European Group for Intelligent Computing in Engineering, Darmstadt University of Technology, Darmstadt, Germany (invited lecture)

Teaching

Spring 2006	Statics and Dynamics	Department of Civil, Environmental and Infrastructure Engineering, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA
2002-present	Engineering Mathematics	3 lectures in the Fundamentals of Engineering Preparation Course, Department of Civil, Environmental and Infrastructure Engineering, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA
Spring 2003	Structural Analysis	Graduate Teaching Assistant, Department of Civil, Environmental and Infrastructure Engineering, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA

Professional Memberships

2005-present	Associate Member	American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
2005-present	Member	Special Interest Group for Genetic and Evolutionary Computation, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
2001-present	Member and formerly Student Vice-President	Phi Beta Delta, Honor Society for International Scholars
2003-2004	Student Member	American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
2003-2004	Student Member	International Society for Genetic and Evolutionary Computation (ISGEC)
2002-2004	Student Member	Dynamical Systems Activity Group, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM)

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