Josh Bongard is a professor at the

University of Vermont The University of Vermont and State Agricultural College, commonly referred to as the University of Vermont (UVM), is a Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Burlington, Vermont, United States. Foun ...

and a 2010

PECASE The Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) is the highest honor bestowed by the Federal government of the United States, United States federal government on outstanding scientists and engineers in the early stages ...

awardee. He attended

Northern Secondary School Northern Secondary School is a public high school in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It teaches grades 9 through 12. It is a part of the Toronto District School Board (TDSB). Prior to Amalgamation of Toronto in 1998, it was within the Toronto Board of ...

in Toronto, and received his bachelor's degree in

Computer Science Computer science is the study of computation, information, and automation. Computer science spans Theoretical computer science, theoretical disciplines (such as algorithms, theory of computation, and information theory) to Applied science, ...

from

McMaster University McMaster University (McMaster or Mac) is a public research university in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. The main McMaster campus is on of land near the residential neighbourhoods of Ainslie Wood, Ontario, Ainslie Wood and Westdale, Ontario, Westd ...

('97), Canada, his master's degree from the

University of Sussex The University of Sussex is a public university, public research university, research university located in Falmer, East Sussex, England. It lies mostly within the city boundaries of Brighton and Hove. Its large campus site is surrounded by the ...

, UK, and his PhD from the

University of Zurich The University of Zurich (UZH, ) is a public university, public research university in Zurich, Switzerland. It is the largest university in Switzerland, with its 28,000 enrolled students. It was founded in 1833 from the existing colleges of the ...

(1999–2003),

Switzerland Switzerland, officially the Swiss Confederation, is a landlocked country located in west-central Europe. It is bordered by Italy to the south, France to the west, Germany to the north, and Austria and Liechtenstein to the east. Switzerland ...

. He served as a postdoctoral associate under

Hod Lipson Hod Lipson (born 1967) is an Israeli - American robotics engineer. He is the director of Columbia University's Creative Machines Lab. Lipson's work focuses on evolutionary robotics, design automation, rapid prototyping, artificial life, and creat ...

in the Computational Synthesis Laboratory at

Cornell University Cornell University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university based in Ithaca, New York, United States. The university was co-founded by American philanthropist Ezra Cornell and historian and educator Andrew Dickson W ...

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",

MIT Press The MIT Press is the university press of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), a private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The MIT Press publishes a number of academic journals and has been a pioneer in the Open Ac ...

, November 2006. (With

Rolf Pfeifer Rolf Pfeifer (born 24 February 1947) is a Swiss artificial-intelligence researcher. He was a professor of computer science at the Department of Informatics at the University of Zurich, and director of the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, wher ...

) . He is also the co-author of "Designing Intelligence: Why Brains Aren't Enough" (with Rolf Pfeifer and Don Berry) . In 2007, he was named to the

MIT The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Established in 1861, MIT has played a significant role in the development of many areas of modern technology and sc ...

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as one of the top 35 innovators in the world under the age of 35.

Selected publications

Kriegman, S., Blackiston, D., Levin, M., and Bongard, J. (2020
A scalable pipeline for designing reconfigurable organisms
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ''Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America'' (often abbreviated ''PNAS'' or ''PNAS USA'') is a peer-reviewed multidisciplinary scientific journal. It is the official journal of the National Academy of Scie ...

'', . 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
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'', 104(24): 9943-9948. Bongard, J., Zykov, V., Lipson, H. (2006
Resilient machines through continuous self-modeling

Science
', 314: 1118-1121.

References

External links

Josh Bongard's web site

Computer-designed organisms - webpage about Xenobot research
{{DEFAULTSORT:Bongard, Josh Canadian artificial intelligence researchers Living people McMaster University alumni Alumni of the University of Sussex University of Zurich alumni 1974 births Researchers of artificial life Northern Secondary School alumni Recipients of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers