[visionlist] Live free 'AIDA AI Excellence e-Lecture' by Dr. Thomas Stützle: "A Personal View of the Past and the Future of Automated Algorithm Design", October 13, 2026 - 16:00 CEST (17:00 Greek time)

[Ioanna Koroni]

Dear AI scientist/engineer/student/enthusiast,

Please, consider attending to our next Excellence Lecture:

*_A Personal View of the Past and the Future of Automated Algorithm Design_*

*/Dr. /**/Thomas Stützle/**/ (/**/Université libre de Bruxelles 
(ULB)/**/) /*

*Abstract: *The design and development of algorithms is very 
time-consuming and difficult for a number of reasons, including the 
complexity of the problems being tackled, the large number of degrees of 
freedom when designing an algorithm and setting its numerical 
parameters, and the difficulties of algorithm analysis due to heuristic 
biases and stochasticity. Fortunately, for some time, advances in 
automatic algorithm configuration and design methods have made this a 
more "straightforward" process.

In this talk, I will discuss some of the advances we have achieved over 
the past 25 years and highlight techniques of automatic configuration of 
algorithms, the automatic configuration of multi-objective algorithms, 
the automatic configuration for anytime algorithms, and the automatic 
design of SLS algorithms via the EMILI framework. Towards the end of the 
talk I will discuss some aspects of the large language models and how 
they have changed and will continue to change our perspective on 
automatic configuration and design of the algorithms.

*Details*

*��**Date: 13 October 2026*

*⏰**Time*: *16:00-17:00 CEST (17:00-18:00 Greek time)*

*��**Zoom link 
<https://authgr.zoom.us/j/97523363413?pwd=7M50tBhkhtRV0lKbaNi0LUsj1cCjbi.1>*

*Meeting ID:  975 2336 3413*

*Passcode: 141540*

***��**For more information, click **here* 
<https://www.i-aida.org/events/a-personal-view-of-the-past-and-the-future-of-automated-algorithm-design/>

* Lecturer Short CV:***Thomas Stützle is with the Belgian F.R.S.-FNRS 
(National Fund for Scientific Research) and works at the IRIDIA 
laboratory of the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Belgium. He 
received the Diplom (German equivalent of an MSc degree) in business 
engineering from Universität Karlsruhe (TH), Germany, in 1994, and his 
PhD degree and habilitation in computer science, both from the Computer 
Science Department of Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany, in 1998 
and 2004, respectively. He joined the F.R.S.-FNRS as a researcher in 
October 2005 and is currently a research director.

He has co-authored three books among which are “Stochastic Local Search: 
Foundations and Applications” (Morgan Kaufmann) and “Ant Colony 
Optimization” (MIT Press), both of which have become standard references 
in their respective areas. His other publications include more than 250 
articles in journals, international conferences or edited books many of 
which are highly cited. In fact, his research contributions received so 
far more than 73,000 citations in Google Scholar and his h-index is 93. 
His main research interests are in stochastic local search algorithms, 
multi-objective optimization, large-scale benchmark studies and 
automatic configuration and design of algorithms.

The *International AI Doctoral Academy (AIDA)* 
<http://www.i-aida.org/> is very pleased to offer you top quality 
scientific lectures

in the framework of AIDA AI Excellence Lecture Series 
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  Best regards

*Prof. Enrique Alba*

/University of Málaga (SPAIN) and Visiting Professor UCL (UK)/

AIDA AI Excellence Lecture Series Committee Chair
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