Dr. Jared Moore

Jared Moore

Contact Information

E-mail Address: [email protected]

Phone Number: (616) 331-4333


Research Interests

Evolutionary Algorithms and Optimization

Generative Art

Artificial Intelligence

Professional Activities

PCEC Representative for Executive Committee of the Senate and Member of the University Academic Senate

NSF RISE and BCPS Pipeline Scholarship Mentor


Personal Interests

Doing my best to Hockey, Climbing, Running, Knife-making, Leather-crafting, Woodworking, Fishing, hunting, gardening and hiking with dogs.

Teaching Interests

CIS 160 – Learn to Code in Python

CIS 162 – Computer Science I

CIS 351 – Computer Architecture

CIS 365 – Artificial Intelligence

CIS 452 – Operating Systems


Recent Publications

Moore J.M., and Clark, A.J., “Supervision and Evolution: Pretraining Neural Networks for Quadrupedal Locomotion” In Proceedings of ALIFE 2021: The 2021 Conference on Artificial Life, Online, MIT Press, Paper No: isal a 00363, 57; 8 pages, July 2021. 

Moore J.M., and Stanton, A., “Objective Sampling Strategies for Generalized Locomotion Behavior with Lexicase Selection” In Proceedings of ALIFE 2021: The 2021 Conference on Artificial Life, Online, MIT Press, Paper No: isal a 00398, 73; 8 pages, July 2021. 

Fredericks, E.M, and Moore J.M. “Search@Home: A Commercial Off-the-Shelf Environment for Investigating Optimization Problems” In Proceedings of the Search-Based Software Engineering Symposium, Online, Springer, pages 171-177, September 2020. 

Moore J.M., and Stanton, A., “When Specialists Transition to Generalists: Evolutionary Pressure in Lexicase Selection” In Proceedings of ALIFE 2020: The 2020 Conference on Artificial Life, Online, MIT Press, pages 719-726, July 2020. 

Moore J.M., and Stanton, A., “The Limits of Lexicase Selection in an Evolutionary Robotics Task” In Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems, Newcastle, UK, MIT Press, pages 551-558, July 2019. 

Moore, J.M., and Clark, A.J. “Improve Quadrupedal Locomotion with Actuated or Passive Joints?.”In Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Sys- tems, Newcastle, UK, MIT Press, pages 559-566, July 2019. 


Research Projects with Students

“Beehive Weight Data Analysis”

“Gait Transitions: When and Why”

“Class Scheduling with a Genetic Algorithm”



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