
Professor at Adelaide University
Frank Neumann is a Professor and the leader of the Optimisation and Logistics group at Adelaide University. He is an expert in the field of evolutionary computation and AI-based optimisation.
Frank received a Humboldt Fellowship for Experienced Researchers in 2019, an Australian Research Council Future Fellowship in 2020, and the ACM SIGEVO Outstanding Contribution Award in 2025. He has been the general chair of the ACM GECCO 2016 and co-organised ACM FOGA 2013 in Adelaide.
Frank is an Area Editor of the journal "ACM Transactions on Evolutionary Learning and Optimization" and an Associate Editor of the journal "Evolutionary Computation" (MIT Press). In his work, he considers algorithmic approaches in particular for combinatorial and multi-objective optimization problems and focuses on theoretical aspects of evolutionary computation as well as high impact applications in the areas of cybersecurity, renewable energy, logistics, and mining.