Risto Miikkulainen

Risto Miikkulainen

Professor of Computer Science

UT Austin / Cognizant AI Labs

NeuroevolutionAI Systems

Professor at UT Austin and VP of AI Research at Cognizant AI Labs. AAAI, IEEE, and INNS Fellow with 500+ publications and author of the first-ever book on neuroevolution (MIT Press, 2025).

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