Mikhail Prokopenko
Principal Research Scientist
Contact
CSIRO ICT Centre
PO Box 76
Epping NSW 1710
Australia
Tel: 61 2 9372 4716
Themes
- Local Energy Systems
- National Security Technology Partnerships
Projects
- Energy Recommender
- CyberSecurity
Science Area
- Machine Learning
Biography
Dr Mikhail Prokopenko has a strong international reputation in the areas of complex self-organising systems and machine learning: more than 110 publications and patents, including an edited book ("Advances in Applied Self-organizing Systems", Springer, 2008), and journal articles in Chaos, Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment, Complexity, Physical Review E, Europhysics Letters, European Physical Journal B, Theory in Biosciences, Artificial Life, Robotics and Autonomous Systems, Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence, Journal of Computational Neuroscience, IEEE Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Human Frontier Science Program Journal.
He received a PhD in Computer Science (Macquarie University, 2002, Australia), MA in Economics (University of Missouri-Columbia, 1994, USA), and MSc in Applied Mathematics (Azerbaijan Institute of Petroleum & Chemistry, 1988, USSR).
Dr. Prokopenko has worked on many CSIRO cross-divisional projects including Smart Grids within Energy Transformed Flagship, Anomaly Detection for Minerals Down Under Flagship, CSIRO-NASA project on self-monitoring aerospace vehicles, and CSIRO Complex Systems Science Project on Directed Self-Assembly in Multi-Agent Networks. Project partners included NASA, Asia-Pacific Partnership on Clean Development and Climate, Boeing Phantom Works, Canon Information Systems Research Australia, Time and People Australia, Royal Australian Navy, and IBM Global Services Australia.
In June 2002, Dr Prokopenko received the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence award for scientific contribution to the RoboCup Simulation League, for the work on entropy of joint beliefs as a measure of multi-agent coordination potential.
In November 2008, Dr. Prokopenko organised The First International Workshop on Guided Self-Organisation (GSO-08) in Sydney, followed by The Second and The Third GSO Workshops held in Leipzig, Germany (2009) and Bloomington, USA (2010), with Dr. Prokopenko co-chairing. Dr Prokopenko has worked on a number of international Program and Organising Committees; was a keynote speaker at 6th International Workshop on Agent-Based Simulation (2005) and GSO-2010; co-chaired sessions on Evolutionary and Self-Organizing Sensors, Actuators and Processing Hardware at international conferences.
Dr Prokopenko is a founding member of ARC Network on Complex Open Systems (COSNet), a member of IEEE Information Theory Society, International Societies for Adaptive Behavior (ISAB) and Artificial Life (ISAL), as well as a member of Advisory Board for Wiley book series on Nature Inspired Computing. He served as a guest editor of special issues on Guided Self-organisation in HFSP Journal (Human Frontiers Science Program, 2009), Theory in Biosciences (2011), a special issue on Complex Networks in Artificial Life (2011), and a section editor for Encyclopaedia of Machine Learning (Evolutionary Computation).
Academic Qualifications
| 2002 | PhD Macquarie University, Computer Science |
| 1994 | MA University of Missouri-Columbia, Economics |
| 1988 | MSc (Honours) Azerbaijan Institute of Oil and Chemistry, Applied Mathematics |
Recent Professional Experience
| 2011- | Senior Science Specialist, Machine Learning, ICT Centre |
| 2007- | Team Leader, ICT Centre |
| 2011- | Project leader, Energy Recommender, Energy Transformed Flagship |
| 2010 | Project leader, Network Immunology Cyber Security |
| 2009-2010 | Project leader, Smart Grids, Energy Transformed Flagship |
| 2005 | Project leader ICT Centre, DISCOVERY: Distributed Intelligence, Sensing and Coordination in Variable Environments |
| 2002-2005 | Senior Research Scientist, ICT Centre/CIP/NASA, Ageless Aerospace Vehicles (AAV) |
| 2003-2004 | Project leader, ICT Centre/CSS, Directed self-Assembly in Multi-agent Networks (DAMAN), CSIRO Complex Systems Emerging Science |
| 2001-2002 | Project leader, CMIS, Adaptive and Interactive Mobile Systems, CMIS Chief's Special Project |
| 1999-2001 | Architecture/software design, CMIS/Canon/CISRA, Intelligent Networked Digital Appliances |
| 1998-2003 | Team leader and architecture/software design and development, CMIS, RoboCup Simulation |
| 1997-1998 | Software design and development, CMIS/Time and People Australia, Staff Optimisation and Rostering Toolkit |
| 1995-1997 | Software design and development, CMIS/Royal Australian Navy/IBM Global Services Australia, APLCRATES Expert System |
Achievements & Awards
| 2008 | CSIRO ICT Centre Publishing Award, for scientific excellence and outstanding contributions both within the ICT Centre and to the international research community |
| 2004 | Most Innovative Technology, The 2004 AJB CEBIT Exhibition Award, Ageless Aerospace Vehicles |
| 2003 | Teamwork award, CSIRO Telecommunications and Industrial Physics Divisional Award to the Ageless Aerospace Vehicle (AAV) Team |
| 2002 | JSAI (Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence) award for scientific contribution to the RoboCup Simulation League |
| 1998-2003 | RoboCup Certificates for successful participation in the Simulation League competitions (team leader of the Cyberoos team) |
| - | 3rd in Pacific Rim RoboCup series 1998 (Singapore, 10 teams); |
| - | 4th in Euro RoboCup 2000 (Amsterdam, 14 teams); |
| - | 3rd in RoboCup Australian Open 2003 (Sydney, 14 teams); |
| - | 9th in RoboCup 2003 (Padua, 45 teams) |
| 1994 | Certificate of Recognition (Fulbright Association and the University of Missouri-Columbia, Edmund S. Muskie Fellow in a Fulbright Program of International Research and Cooperation, USA) |
| 1992 | Two-year Benjamin Franklin Fellowship Grant, USA |
Other Highlights
| 2006-2010 | Adjunct Associate Professor in the School of Computer Science and Engineering, the University of New South Wales |
| 2006-2009 | Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Computing, Macquarie University (an adjunct position) |
| 2004-2009 | COSNet: Complex Open Systems ARC Network (a founding member) |
| Member | of IEEE |
| Member | of IEEE Information Theory Society |
| Member | of the International Society for Adaptive Behavior (ISAB) |
Grants
| 2009 | Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, research grant (Information-driven Self-Organization and Complexity Measures) |
| 2004 | ARC Research Network Study, Energetically Open Systems |
| 2004-2009 | ARC Research Network, Complex Open Systems Network (COSNet) |
Top 10 Publications
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| M. Prokopenko, F. Boschetti, A. Ryan. An information-theoretic primer on complexity, self-organisation and emergence, Complexity, 15(1), 11-28, 2009 |
| J. T. Lizier, M. Prokopenko, A. Y. Zomaya. Local information transfer as a spatiotemporal filter for complex systems. Phys. Rev. E 77, 026110, 2008 |
| J. T. Lizier, M. Prokopenko, and A. Y. Zomaya, Information modification and particle collisions in distributed computation, Chaos, 20(3): 037109, 2010 |
| M. Prokopenko, N. Ay, O. Obst and D. Polani, Phase Transitions in Least-Effort Communications, Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment, 2010(11): P11025, 2010 |
| M. Piraveenan, M. Prokopenko, A. Y. Zomaya. Local assortativeness in scale-free networks, Europhysics Letters, 84, 28002, 2008 |
| M. Prokopenko, V. Gerasimov, and I. Tanev, Evolving Spatiotemporal Coordination in a Modular Robotic System, in Nolfi, S., Baldassarre, G., Calabretta R., Hallam, J. C. T., Marocco, D., Meyer J.-A., Miglino, O., and Parisi, D., eds. From Animals to Animats 9: 9th International Conference on the Simulation of Adaptive Behavior (SAB 2006), Rome, Italy, Springer, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 4095, 558-569, 2006 |
| M. Piraveenan, M. Prokopenko, A. Y. Zomaya. Assortativeness and information in scale-free networks, European Physical Journal B, 67, 291–300, 2009 |
| M. Prokopenko, P. Wang, D. C. Price, P. Valencia, M. Foreman, A. J. Farmer, Self-organizing Hierarchies in Sensor and Communication Networks, Artificial Life, Vol. 11(4), 407-426, 2005. |
| M. Prokopenko, P. Wang, M. Foreman, P. Valencia, D. C. Price, G. T. Poulton, On Connectivity of Reconfigurable Impact Networks in Ageless Aerospace Vehicles, Journal of Robotics and Autonomous Systems, Vol. 53(1), 36-58, 2005. |
| M. Foreman, M. Prokopenko, P. Wang, Phase Transitions in Self-organising Sensor Networks, In Banzhaf, W. and Christaller, T. and Dittrich, P. and Kim, J.T. and Ziegler, J., eds., Advances in Artificial Life - Proceedings of the 7th European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL), Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, vol. 2801, 781-791, Springer, 2003. |
Number of citations
| ISI | 175 |
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| Google Scholar | 640 |