Russell C. Eberhart, an American electrical engineer, best known as the co-developer of particle swarm optimization

Particle swarm optimization

In computer science, particle swarm optimization is a computational method that optimizes a problem by iteratively trying to improve a candidate solution with regard to a given measure of quality...

 concept (with James Kennedy (social psychologist)

James Kennedy (social psychologist)

James Kennedy is an American social psychologist, best known as an originator and researcher of particle swarm optimization. The first papers on the topic, by Kennedy and Russell C. Eberhart, were presented in 1995; since then more than ten thousand papers have been published on particle swarms...

). He is professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and adjunct professor of Biomedical Engineering at the Purdue School of Engineering and Technology, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI). Fellow of the IEEE. Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering.

He earned a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Kansas State University

Kansas State University

Kansas State University, commonly shortened to K-State, is an institution of higher learning located in Manhattan, Kansas, in the United States...

in 1972. And he was Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation and Past president of IEEE Neural Networks Council.

Publications

• Neural Network PC Tools, published by Academic Press in 1990. Co-editor.
• Computational Intelligence PC Tools, published by Academic Press Professional, 1996. Co-author.
• Swarm Intelligence, published by Morgan Kaufmann in 2001. Co-author.
• Computational Intelligence: Concepts to Implementations, published by Morgan Kaufmann in 2007. Co-author.