Personal Page - Philip K. McKinley (Phil McKinley), Department of Computer Science

Philip K. McKinley
Professor of Computer Science and Engineering
Michigan State University

Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Short Biography
Curriculum Vitae (PDF)
Contact Information

Research

Topics: Distributed systems, self-adaptive software, autonomic computing, artificial life, evolutionary computation.

In the NEWS:
   Currents magazine article on our Evolution Park testbed for evolving and printing robotic creatures. [Full text]
   Scientific American blog on our research in evolving and 3D-printing of robotic fish.
   State News article on applying robotic fish to detect pollution.
   Wired.com article on our work demonstrating evolution of firefly-like synchronization in digital organisms.
   Conservation Maven article on our studies in automated species identification as part of ecosystem monitoring.
   New Scientist magazine article on our investigation of evolving adaptive sleep behavior in digital organisms. [Full Text]

Publications:
   Publications from Research Projects (2007 - present)    (2001-2006)    (1987-2000)
   Harnessing Digital Evolution - 2008 IEEE Computer article on using artificial life to help construct robust software
   Composing Adaptive Software - 2004 IEEE Computer article on a taxonomy of adaptive software methods

Current Research Projects:
   Evolution Park (NSF): An Evolutionary Robotics Habitat for the Study of Crawling, Swimming and Flying Creatures
   TEAMS (NSF): Transplanting Artificial Life Behaviors to Mobile Robots
   Orchid (NSF): Harnessing Digital Evolution to Design High-Assurance Adaptive Systems
   AWARE (ARO): Adaptive Software Monitoring for Critical Infrastructure Protection
   BEACON (NSF): An NSF Center for the Study of Evolution in Action
   ThinkTank: Umbrella MSU Initiative Applying Evolutionary Computation to Distributed Systems

Recently-Completed and Past Projects:
   RAPIDware (ONR): Adaptive Middleware for Heterogeneous Mobile Computing
   Meridian (NSF): Automated Development of Distributed Systems Software
   Earlier Research Projects
   List of Grants and Contracts

Affiliations:
   Software Engineering and Network Systems (SENS) Laboratory
   Digital Evolution Laboratory (Devolab)
   Ecology, Evolutionary Biology, and Behavior Graduate Program

Current and Former Students

Teaching

Recent Professional Activities

Organizing Committee, ALIFE XIII
Program Committee Member, SASO 2011
Program Committee Member, GECCO 2010
Program Committee Member, SASO 2010

Other Pointers

Michigan State University

MSU Department of Computer Science

MSU College of Engineering

For newcomers to Lansing

Author: Phil McKinley
Updated: February 2011