Marco Dorigo

Marco Dorigo, born 26 August 1961 in Milan, Italy, is a research director for the Belgian Funds for Scientific Research and co-director of IRIDIA, the artificial intelligence laboratory of the Universite libre de Bruxelles. He received a PhD in System and Information Engineering in 1992 from the Polytechnic University of Milan with a thesis on optimization, learning and natural algorithms, and is the leading proponent of the ant colony optimization metaheuristic and one of the founders of the swarm intelligence research field. His later work moved into swarm robotics, coordinating the Swarm-bots and Swarmanoid projects funded by the European Commission, and he is founding editor and editor-in-chief of the journal Swarm Intelligence. His awards include the 2003 Marie Curie Research Excellence Award, the 2005 Dr A. De Leeuw-Damry-Bourlart award from the King of Belgium, the 2007 Cajastur International Prize for Soft Computing, the 2015 IEEE Frank Rosenblatt Award, and a 2010 ERC Advanced Grant; he was named an ACM Fellow in the 2025 class.