Stony Brook University (B.S., 1994) California Institute of Technology (Ph.D., 1999)
Known for
Digital evolution, Avida
Awards
Withrow Distinguished Scholar Award (2006, 2016)[1] NSF CAREER Award (2007) Withrow Teaching Excellence Award (2010)[2]
Scientific career
Fields
Computer Science, Evolutionary Biology
Institutions
Michigan State University
Doctoral advisor
Christoph Adami
Other academic advisors
Richard Lenski
Website
www.ofria.com
Dr. Charles A. Ofria is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Michigan State University, the director of the Digital Evolution (DEvo) Lab there, and Director of the BEACON Center for the Study of Evolution in Action. He is the son of the late Charles Ofria,[3] who developed the first fully integrated shop management program for the automotive repair industry. Ofria attended Stuyvesant High School and graduated from Ward Melville High School in 1991. He obtained a B.S. in Computer Science, Pure Mathematics, and Applied Mathematics from Stony Brook University in 1994, and a Ph.D. in Computation and Neural Systems from the California Institute of Technology in 1999. Ofria's research focuses on the interplay between computer science and Darwinian evolution.[4]
Ofria is one of the designers of Avida, an artificial life software platform to study the evolutionary biology of self-replicating and evolving computer programs (digital organisms, see also Digital organism simulators). Avida has been used extensively to study the basic processes that underlie Darwinian evolution.[5] Avida is under active development in Ofria's Digital Evolution Lab at Michigan State University and was originally designed by Ofria, Chris Adami and C. Titus Brown at Caltech in 1993.
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^"Testing Darwin". Discover Magazine. February 2005.
Dr. Charles A. Ofria is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Michigan State University, the director of the Digital Evolution...
Artificial Life, 8(3):223–246, 2002. Jeff Clune, Benjamin Beckmann, CharlesOfria, and Robert Pennock. "Evolving Coordinated Quadruped Gaits with the...
citrate as an energy source under oxic conditions. Richard Lenski, CharlesOfria, et al. at Michigan State University developed an artificial life computer...
Introduction to Artificial Life. Springer Verlag. ISBN 0387946462. Lenski, R. E.; Ofria, C.; Pennock, R. T.; Adami, C. (2003). "The evolutionary origin of complex...
graduate and undergraduate students. The director of the center is CharlesOfria. The other principal investigators are Erik D. Goodman, Richard Lenski...
2009.4983289. ISBN 978-1-4244-2958-5. S2CID 17566887. Clune, Jeff; Ofria, Charles; Pennock, Robert T. (2009-01-01). "The sensitivity of HyperNEAT to different...
digital evolution platforms by 20 years. In 1993, Christoph Adami, CharlesOfria, and C. Titus Brown created the artificial life platform Avida at the...
self-replicating and evolving computer programs, is under active development by CharlesOfria in the Digital Evolution Lab of the Department of Computer Science and...
Archived from the original on 17 October 2013. Retrieved 19 April 2010. Ofria, Charles (30 August 2006). "Familycar 2007 Lexus LS 460 Preview". FamilyCar.com...
the subject of his book The Selfish Gene Chandler, Christopher H.; Ofria, Charles; Dworkin, Ian (2013). "Runaway Sexual Selection Leads to Good Genes"...
Archived from the original on 6 October 2014. Retrieved 6 October 2014. Ofria, Charles. "A short course on automatic transmissions". CarParts.com. JC Whitney...
PMC 2998319. PMID 20923976. Covert, Arthur; Lenski, Richard; Wilke, Claus; Ofria, Charles (2013). "Experiments on the role of deleterious mutations as stepping...
Wayback Machine. Trnmag.com (8 May 2003). Retrieved on 2011-12-06. Adami, C.; Ofria, C.; Collier, T. C. (2000). "Evolution of biological complexity". PNAS....
1162/ARTL_a_00210. ISSN 1064-5462. PMID 27472417. S2CID 215715948. Ofria, Charles; Wilke, Claus O. (2004). "Avida: A Software Platform for Research in...
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