About Me:

I work for the Institute for Simulation and Training at the University of Central Florida. My area of interest is in developing empirical research and theory for understanding coadaptive learning algorithms for multiagent systems. In particular, in my dissertation I focused on using evolutionary game theory as a tool for understanding the dynamics of compositional (cooperative) coevolutionary algorithms. My wife is an ordained Lutheran Pastor (ELCA). Though currently between calls because of our move to Florida, she used to serve as pastor of Lutheran Church of the Living Word in Columbia, MD. Our daughter, Epiphany Rose Wiegand, is a rambunctious toddler ... she keeps us very busy.

Recent Activities

• I'm helping organize the 2010 Orlando Go Tournament (May 8 & 9, website TBA)
• I'll be attending the Guo Juan Pro Workshop in Orlando in March
• I taught CAP 5610, Machine Learning Fall 2009.
• Annie Wu and I are gradually working to merge our two labs, the NCCS lab and the EC lab, here at UCF
• I've been attending Pawel Wocjan's Algorithms & Theory Group meetings (lectured on randomized analysis of EC in late Nov)
• I'm trying to pick up some simple wood working skills...
• Daniel Barber and I are chairing a session on "Hybrid & Multi-Model Computational Techniques for HSCB Applications" in the Cross-Cultural Decision Making track of AHFE 2010 in Miami this July
• Thomas Jansen, Annie Wu, Ivan Garibay, and I organized the next Foundations of Genetic Algorithms in Orlando, Jan. 9-11 2009.

Publications, etc.

• My research
• My publications
• My dissertation
• My CV (PDF file)