Josh Bongard

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Josh Bongard
Born (1974-04-17) April 17, 1974 (age 50)
Citizenship Canada
Alma materMcMaster University
University of Sussex
University of Zurich
Known forSelf-modeling robots, Xenobots
Scientific career
FieldsRobotics, Artificial Intelligence
InstitutionsCornell University
University of Vermont
Doctoral advisorRolf Pfeifer

Josh Bongard is a professor at the

PECASE
awardee.

He attended

Computer Science from McMaster University ('97), Canada, his master's degree from the University of Sussex, UK, and his PhD from the University of Zurich (1999–2003), Switzerland. He served as a postdoctoral associate under Hod Lipson in the Computational Synthesis Laboratory at Cornell University
in the United States from 2003 to 2006.

He is the co-author of the popular science book entitled "How the Body Shapes the Way We Think: A New View of Intelligence",

.

In 2007, he was named to the

TR35 as one of the top 35 innovators in the world under the age of 35.[1]

Selected publications

Kriegman, S., Blackiston, D., Levin, M., and Bongard, J. (2020) A scalable pipeline for designing reconfigurable organisms.

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Bongard J. (2011) Morphological change in machines accelerates the evolution of robust behavior.

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Bongard J. and Lipson H. (2007) Automated reverse engineering of nonlinear dynamical systems.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
, 104(24): 9943-9948.

Bongard, J., Zykov, V., Lipson, H. (2006) Resilient machines through continuous self-modeling. Science, 314: 1118-1121.

References

  1. Technology Review
    . 2007. Retrieved August 15, 2011.

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