Holger H. Hoos
Holger H. Hoos is a German-Canadian computer scientist and a professor of machine learning at Leiden University. He previously was a professor in the Computer Science Department at the University of British Columbia until 2016. His research interests are focused on empirical algorithmics with applications in artificial intelligence, bioinformatics and operations research.
In particular, he works on automated algorithm design and on stochastic local search algorithms. Since 2015, he is a Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence.
He wrote the book Stochastic Local Search: Foundations and Applications, and his research is published widely in internationally leading journals and conference proceedings.
He also works in computer music, where he created the SALIERI music programming language and computer music system as well as GUIDO music notation.
Hoos studied computer science at Department of Computer Science of the Technische Universität Darmstadt and received his doctorate there in 1998.
