معرفی
Prof. Dr. Heike Trautmann is a leading researcher in statistics and optimization at the University of Twente (2021-2026) and former Professor at WWU Münster (2013-2016). Her work bridges computational statistics, evolutionary optimization, and social media analytics. She has held visiting positions at TU Dortmund, Leiden University, and RWTH Aachen.
- Current affiliation: University of Twente (Data Science: Statistics and Optimization)
- Previous roles: WWU Münster (Professor for Information Systems and Statistics), TU Dortmund (Postdoctoral researcher)
Research Focus: Multi-criteria optimization, automated algorithm selection, data stream mining, and disinformation detection in social media. Her methodological innovations in exploratory landscape analysis and evolutionary computation have transformed algorithm configuration practices.
- Developed COSEAL consortium for algorithm selection
- Co-founder of Benchmarking Network (2019)
- Principal investigator in projects like PropStop and MODERAT!
Academic Contributions: Over 150 publications in top venues like GECCO, PPSN, and Evolutionary Computation journal. Pioneered feature-based landscape analysis tools (flacco, pflacco) and stream clustering frameworks.
