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Eyal Wirsansky
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Eyal Wirsansky

Eyal Wirsansky is a senior data scientist, an experienced software engineer, a technology community leader, and an artificial intelligence researcher. Eyal began his software engineering career over twenty-five years ago as a pioneer in the field of Voice over IP. He currently works as a member of the data platform team at Gradle, Inc. During his graduate studies, he focused his research on genetic algorithms and neural networks. A notable result of this research is a novel supervised machine learning algorithm that integrates both approaches. In addition to his professional roles, Eyal serves as an adjunct professor at Jacksonville University, where he teaches a class on artificial intelligence. He also leads both the Jacksonville, Florida Java User Group and the Artificial Intelligence for Enterprise virtual user group, and authors the developer-focused artificial intelligence blog, ai4java.
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Differences from traditional algorithms

There are several important differences between genetic algorithms and traditional search and optimization algorithms, such as gradient-based algorithms.

The key characteristics of genetic algorithms distinguishing them from traditional algorithms are:

  • Maintaining a population of solutions
  • Using a genetic representation of the solutions
  • Utilizing the outcome of a fitness function
  • Exhibiting a probabilistic behavior

In the upcoming sections, we will describe these factors in greater detail.

Population-based

The genetic search is conducted over a population of candidate solutions (individuals) rather than a single candidate. At any point in the search, the algorithm retains a set of...

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Eyal Wirsansky

Eyal Wirsansky is a senior data scientist, an experienced software engineer, a technology community leader, and an artificial intelligence researcher. Eyal began his software engineering career over twenty-five years ago as a pioneer in the field of Voice over IP. He currently works as a member of the data platform team at Gradle, Inc. During his graduate studies, he focused his research on genetic algorithms and neural networks. A notable result of this research is a novel supervised machine learning algorithm that integrates both approaches. In addition to his professional roles, Eyal serves as an adjunct professor at Jacksonville University, where he teaches a class on artificial intelligence. He also leads both the Jacksonville, Florida Java User Group and the Artificial Intelligence for Enterprise virtual user group, and authors the developer-focused artificial intelligence blog, ai4java.
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