Nicolas Lassabe




About me:

Postdoctoral researcher at Cornell Computational Synthesis Lab (CCSL), Cornell University. Currently, I work on Molecubes project and on the Artilect plateform.

PhD in computer sciences from the University of Toulouse in France in the group of artificial life (VORTEX team / IRIT Laboratory).



Research interests:


Interests: Artificial life (virtual ecosystem, evolving creatures), genetic programming (evolving strategies for chess), genetic algorithms, evolutionary robotic, adaptive robotics, embodied cognition. I have worked on evolving neural network by genetic algorithms for evaluation of chess positions and genetic programming to generate chess strategies. Now I am working on evolving creatures based on the work of Karl Sims.



In this video, the creatures learn by evolution how to move, to climb or to slide on a skate board. This video shows a part of the best creatures at the end of the evolution. For more information, you can download this pdf.