Biography

Luis M. Rocha is the George J. Klir Professor of Systems Science at the Thomas J. Watson College of Engineering and Applied Science (School of Systems Science and Industrial Engineering), Binghamton University (State University of New York), where he leads the Complex Adaptive Systems and Computational Intelligence (CASCI) lab. He is also Visiting Professor at the Catolica Biomedical Research Center of the Catolica Medical School, where he is the Era Chair of the CBeRa project "Strategic Integration of Complex Networks and Systems for Advancing Biomedical Research". He was the director of the NSF-NRT Interdisciplinary Training Program in Complex Networks and Systems and Professor of Informatics in the Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering at Indiana University, where he was a member of the advisory council of the Indiana University Network Science Institute, and core faculty of the Cognitive Science Program. Dr. Rocha is a founding partner of the international Center for Excellence in Mental Health Sciences, a Fulbright Scholar and was a Principal Investigator and Senior Fellow at the Instituto Gulbenkian da Ciencia between 2002 and 2024. His research is on complex networks & systems, computational & systems biology, and computational intelligence. He received his Ph.D in Systems Science in 1997 from the State University of New York at Binghamton. From 1998 to 2004 he was a permanent staff scientist at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, where he founded and led a Complex Systems Modeling Team during 1998-2002, and was part of the Santa Fe Institute research community. He has organized major conferences in the field such as the Tenth International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems (Alife X), the Ninth European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL 2007), and Complex Networks 2019-2023. He has published many articles in scientific and technology journals, and has been the recipient of several scholarships and awards. He received the Lois B. DeFleur Prize for Academic Achievement in 2025 at Binghamton University, and the Trustees Award for Teaching Excellence in 2006 and 2015 at Indiana University, after developing the complex systems training program and syllabi for several courses.