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Ryan Bahlous-Boldi

Ryan Bahous-Boldi '25

Goldwater Scholarship Awardee 2024

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Graduation year: 2025

Major and Minor: Computer Science, Minor: Psychology and Philosophy

Commonwealth Honors College

Name of the Scholarship: Goldwater Scholarship

Period of the Scholarship: Senior Year (1 Year)

Country: United States

My project involved taking ideas from evolution to optimize computer programs. I worked on an algorithm known as Lexicase selection, that can pick promising candidates from a pool of individuals. It turns out that this method is very effective for picking individuals to become parents in an evolutionary framework, as it can maintain diversity and specialists in the population. We then can use this principle to evolve computer programs to help us solve real world problems that were previously otherwise unsolvable! The Goldwater Scholarship directly supports my efforts at conducting this kind of research while also balancing other academic commitments. 

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