Directory profile for Dr. Kalyanmoy Deb

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  • 2108 Cyber Hall
  • Phone (205) 348-8399
  • Fax (205) 348-6959
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Dr. Kalyanmoy Deb

Endowed Shelby Distinguished Professor

Contact

  • 2108 Cyber Hall
  • phone (205) 348-8399
  • fax (205) 348-6959
  • Email

Education

  • B.S. Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India 1985
  • M.S. Engineering Mechanics, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, 1989
  • PhD. Engineering Mechanics, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, 1991

Kalyanmoy Deb is an Endowed Shelby Distinguished Professor in the Department of Computer Science at The University of Alabama. Prof. Deb’s research interests are in computational intelligence and machine learning, focusing in multi-criterion optimization and decision-making. He received his Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India and master’s and doctoral degrees from University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, USA. He received IEEE Evolutionary Computation Pioneer Award, Infosys Prize, TWAS Prize in Engineering Sciences, CajAstur Mamdani Prize, Distinguished Alumni Award, Edgeworth-Pareto award, Bhatnagar Prize, and Bessel Research award from Germany. He is fellow of ACM, ASME and IEEE. He has published over 680 research papers with Google Scholar citation of over 243,000 with h-index 150. He is in the editorial board on 10 major international journals. More information about his research contribution can be found from https://www.coin-lab.org.

Affiliated Areas
Computer Science

Selected Publications

  • Deb, K., Pratap. A, Agarwal, S., and Meyarivan, T. (2002). A fast and elitist multiobjective genetic algorithm: NSGA-II. IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, 6(2), 181-197.
  • Deb, K. and Jain, H. (2014). Evolutionary Many-Objective Optimization Algorithm Using Reference-point Based Non-dominated Sorting Approach, Part I: Solving Problems with Box Constraints. IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, 18(4), 577-601.
  • Deb, K. (2001). Multi-objective optimization using evolutionary algorithms. Chichester, London: Wiley
  • Deb, K. (2000). An e cient constraint handling method for genetic algorithms. Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 186, 311-338.
  • Raj, S. and Deb, K. (2026). HyBMSearch: A Fast Multi-Level Search Algorithm Delivering Order-of-Magnitude Speedups on Multi-Billion Datasets. Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, 211. Elsevier.

Awards and Honors

  • Highly Cited Researcher, Clarivate Analytics, 2017, 2025
  • Fellow of ACM, IEEE and ASME
  • IEEE CIS Evolutionary Computation Pioneer Award, Computational Intelligence Society, IEEE, 2018
  • Lifetime Achievement Award, Clarivate Analytics, 2017
  • Honorary Doctorate Degree, Faculty of Information Technology, University of Jyvaskyla, Finland, 2013

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