Curriculum Vitae

Dr. Teuscher's work has been honored with several awards and was widely covered by the media. He has published more than 90 scientific papers and several books.

Postitions held:

[Jun 2009 -]	Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science, Portland State University
[Oct 2008 - ]	Assistant Professor Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Portland State University
[Nov 2007 - ]	Assistant Adjunct Professor Department of Computer Science, University of New Mexico (UNM)
[Sep 2007 - Oct 2008]	Technical Staff Member Los Alamos National Laboratory, Computer, Computational & Statistical Sciences Division (CCS)
[Sep 2005 - Sep 2007]	Director's Postdoctoral Fellow Los Alamos National Laboratory, Computer, Computational & Statistical Sciences Division (CCS)
[Jun 2005 - Aug 2005]	Postdoctoral research associate Los Alamos National Laboratory, Computer, Computational & Statistical Sciences Division (CCS)
[Mar 2004 - Jun 2005]	Postdoctoral researcher University of California, San Diego (UCSD), Department of Cognitive Science
[Apr 2000 - Mar 2004]	Research and teaching assistant Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne (EPFL)

 

Education:

[Apr 2000 - Feb 2004]	PhD in Computer Science (Dr. ès sciences) Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne (EPFL) Graduated in Feb 2004 with honors
[Oct 1995 - Apr 2000]	M.Sc. in Computer Science (dipl. ing.) Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne (EPFL) Graduated in Apr 2000 with honors
[Apr 1992 - Apr 1995]	College, Thun, Switzerland. Graduated in 1995.
[Apr 1988 - Apr 1992]	Electronics engineer (dipl. Elektroniker) Elektronikbetrieb Zweisimmen, Zweisimmen, Switzerland Graduated in Apr 1992 with honors
[Apr 1988 - Apr 1992]	Technical High School, Bern, Switzerland. Graduated in 1992.
[Apr 1988 - Apr 1992]	Technical College, Bern, Switzerland. Graduated in 1992.

Awards:

See here.

Strategic Committees and Interest Groups:

• The International Cooperation Activities in Future and Emerging Information and Communication Technologies (InterLink). The series of InterLink workshops, aims at advancing Europe's knowledge in a number of critical science and technology areas by (1) enabling interactions with research communities all over the world and (2) defining new grand challenges or key technological issues. Invited participant and contributor to the workshops.
• Computing Research Association Grand Research Challenges Conference: "Revitalizing Computer Architecture Research," Monterey Bay, CA, USA, Dec 4-7, 2005. Invited participant.
• Member of the EU's Information Society Technologies (IST-FP6) strategic Beyond-The-Horizon research community in the fields of "Intelligent and Cognitive Systems" and "Nanoelectronics and Nanotechnology."
• Unconventional Programming Paradigms (UPP), Challenges, Visions and Research Issues for New Programming Paradigms. A European Commission and US National Science Foundation Strategic Research Workshop. Mont Saint-Michel, France, September 15-17, 2004. Invited participant.

 

Conference organization:

[March 20-23, 2007]	Unconventional Computation: Quo Vadis? Initiator and principal organizer
[Sep 4, 2006]	From Utopian to Genuine Unconventional Computers: Splendeurs et misères du calcul peu usuel Organizer, together with Andy Adamatzky
[Jan 26-27, 2006]	Second International Workshop onf Biologically Inspired Approaches to Advanced Information Technology (Bio-ADIT 2006) Publicity chair
[Sep 6, 2005]	Workshop on Unconventional Computing Organizer, together with Andy Adamatzky
[Jan 29-30, 2004]	First International Workshop onf Biologically Inspired Approaches to Advanced Information Technology (Bio-ADIT 2004) Publicity chair
[Sep 8-11, 2003]	5th International Workshop on Information Processing in Cells and Tissues (IPCAT2003) Program chair
[June 28, 2002]	Turing Day: Computing science 90 years from the birth of Alan M. Turing Initiator and organizer

 

Editorial boards:

• International Journal of Nanotechnology and Molecular Computation (IJNMC), Associate Editor.
• International Journal of Unconventional Computing (IJUC), Associate Editor.

 

Memberships:

• Oregon Academy of Science, member
• Sigma Xi, Columbia-Willamette chapter, full member
• Computability in Europe
• European Complex Systems Society (ECSS)
  
• International Society for Artificial Life (ISAL)
• European Network of Excellence in Evolutionary Computing (EvoWeb)
  
• Swiss Informaticians Society
• Swiss Federation of Information Processing Societies
• Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
• Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
• IEEE Computer Society

Program committees:

• 9th  International Conference on Evolvable Systems, ICES 2010
• 2nd International Workshop on Network on Chip Architectures, NoCArc'09
• 2009 International Conference on Reconfigurable Computing and FPGAs (ReConFig'09), Special Track on Bio-inspired and Self-Adaptive Computing
• IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, CEC 2009
• 8th International Conference on Unconventional Computation, UC 2009
• IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Nanoscale Architectures, NANOARCH 2009
• IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, CIBCB 2008
• IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Nanoscale Architectures, NANOARCH 2008
• Artificial Life, Evolutionary Robotics, Adaptive Behavior and Evolvable Hardware track, GECCO2008
• 8th International Conference on Evolvable Systems: From Biology to Hardware, ICES2008
• IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Nanoscale Architectures, NANOARCH 2007
• 6th International Conference on Unconventional Computation, UC'07
• 7th International Workshop on Information Processing in Cells and Tissues 2007, IPCAT07
• 7th International Conference on Evolvable Systems: From Biology to Hardware, ICES2007
• 28th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci2006
• 5th International Conference on Unconventional Computation (UC'06)
• Evolvable hardware track, Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, GECCO2006
• The 10th International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems, ALIFE X
• The Fourth International Conference on Development and Learning, ICDL2005
• NASA/DoD Conference on Evolvable Hardware, EH-2005
• International Conference on Evolvable Systems, ICES2005
• 8th European Conference on Artificial Life, ECAL2005
• 6th International Workshop on Information Processing in Cells and Tissues, IPCAT2005
• NASA/DoD Conference on Evolvable Hardware, EH-2004
• NASA/DoD Conference on Evolvable Hardware, EH-2003
• 7th European Conference on Artificial Life, ECAL2003
• 5th International Conference on Evolvable Systems: From Biology to Hardware, ICES2003

 

Selected invited talks:

• 2007 Unconventional Computing, Bristol, UK, July 12-14, 2007. Invited talk: Computation in Self-Assembled Avogadro-Scale Systems: Challenges and Opportunities

• Interlink workshop, Eze, France. May 10-12, 2007. Invited talk.

• LANL capabilities workshop on "Productive Computing Environments for Applications of National Importance," Los Alamos, NM, USA. Sep 2006. Invited talk: Languages and Tools for Emerging Gigascale Electronics

• LANL capabilities workshop on "Complex Networks," Los Alamos, NM, USA. Aug 2006. Invited talk: New Paradigms for Complex Nanoscale Chip Interconnect Networks

• International Conference on Complex Systems (ICCS2006), Boston, MA, USA. June 2006. Invited talk: Live and Let Die: Will there be Life after Biologically Inspired Computation?

• Workshop on Optimization in Complex Networks, Los Alamos, NM, USA. June 2006.
  Invited plenary talk: Wires Growing in a Chip Near You: On the Future of Complex Nanoscale Interconnect Networks

• University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, USA. March 2006.
  Invited talk: Towards Novel Computing Paradigms: Computation with Irregular and Imperfect Cellular Assemblies

• Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland. March 2006.
  Invited talk: Modeling the Emergence of Shared Attentional Skills and (Ad)Ventures in Novel Computing Architectures

• Workshop on Computation in Nanoscale Dynamical Systems, Santa Fe, NM, USA. Jan 2006.
  Invited plenary talk: Computation in Irregular and Uncertain Nano-scale Architectures

• Nano & Micro Gadgets 2005: Applications, Fabrication, Santa Fe, NM, USA. August 2005.
  Invited plenary talk: Novel Computational Architectures for Nano-scale Devices.

• Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL/IF), Rome, NY, USA. Mai 2005.
  Invited seminar: The Quest for Novel Computational Paradigms and Machines.

• San Diego State University (SDSU), March, 2005.
  Invited seminar: Modeling the Emergence of Shared Attentional Skills.

• Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, NM, Feb 2005. Invited seminar: The Incessant Quest for Adaptive, Autonomous, and Robust Artifacts.

• European Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics (ERCIM), Malaga, Spain, Nov 2-5, 2004.
  Cor Baayen award invited plenary lecture: Amorphous Membrane Blending: From Regular to Irregular Cellular Computing Machines.

• Unconventional Programming Paradigms: Challenges, Visions and Research Issues for New Programming Paradigms, A European Commission and US National Science Foundation Strategic Research Workshop, Le Mont Saint Michel, France. September 15-17, 2004.
  Plenary talk: Chemical Blending with Particles, Cells, and Artificial Chemistries.

• Los Alamos National Laboratories, Los Alamos, NM, USA. August 12, 2004.
  Invited talk: From Regular to Irregular Cellular Computing Machines.

• University of Birmingham, School of Computer Science, Birmingham, UK. April 2004. Invited talk: From Regular to Irregular Cellular Machines.

• Workshop on the Modelling and Simulation of Biological Processes in the Context of Genomics, Université d'Evry, Paris, France. March 31, 2004.
  Plenary talk: Biologically-Inspired Cellular Computing Machines.

• Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), Turing Day. June 28, 2002.
  Plenary talk: Connectionism, Turing, and the Brain.

• HP Labs, Palo Alto, CA. February 26, 2003.
  Invited talk: From Embryonics to the BioWall.

• Stanford University, Computer Science Department, CA. February 27, 2003.
  Invited talk: Biologically-Inspired Computing: Quo Vadis?

• NASA JPL, Pasadena, CA. March 3, 2003.
  Invited talk: Biologically-Inspired Computing: Quo Vadis?