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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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Search problems and combinatorial optimization

One main area of applying genetic algorithms is search problems, which have important applications in fields such as logistics, operations, artificial intelligence, and machine learning. Examples include determining the optimal routes for package delivery, designing hub-based airline networks, managing investment portfolios, and assigning passengers to available drivers in a fleet of taxis.

A search algorithm is focused on solving a problem through methodic evaluation of states and state transitions, aiming to find a path from the initial state to a desirable final (or goal) state. Typically, there is a cost or gain involved in every state transition, and the objective of the corresponding search algorithm is to find a path that minimizes the cost or maximizes the gain. Since the optimal path is one of many possible ones, this kind...

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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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