Christian Blum
Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (IIIA-CSIC)
Bellaterra, Spain
Senior Research Scientist
Bio
Christian Blum is a Senior Research Scientist at the Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (IIIA) of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) in Bellaterra, Spain. He is highly cited with over 20,492 citations and is considered one of the most influential researchers at the intersection of Artificial Intelligence, Operations Research, Optimization, Heuristics, Natural Computing and Computational Intelligence.
His research focuses on developing and applying advanced optimization techniques to solve complex combinatorial problems. He has made significant contributions to the field of metaheuristics for combinatorial optimization problems and is co-founder of the international workshop series on Hybrid Metaheuristics.
Key Contributions
- Metaheuristics Survey: Influential survey “Metaheuristics in combinatorial optimization: Overview and conceptual comparison” introducing the I&D framework
- CMSA Algorithm: Developed the Construct, Merge, Solve and Adapt hybrid metaheuristic for combinatorial optimization
- STNWeb: Launched web application for visual comparison of multiple optimization algorithm runs
- Forgetful Swarm Optimization: Novel metaheuristic algorithm for Astronomical Observation Scheduling
Awards
- IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation (IEEE TEC) Outstanding Paper Award
- Award as director of the thesis that won first prize at “Certamen Arquímedes” (Spanish national competition)
Publications
- Co-editor of “Swarm Intelligence” (Springer, 2006)
- Co-author of “Hybrid Metaheuristics” (Springer, 2016)
- Numerous high-impact publications in metaheuristics and combinatorial optimization
Interests
Metaheuristics | Hybrid Metaheuristics | Matheuristics | Swarm Intelligence | Combinatorial Optimization
