REBECCA RIVERS
WORK EXPERIENCE
Google -- Software Engineer -- Feb 2019 - Nov 2019
Google -- Software Engineer -- Jun 2015 - Aug 2018
Sandia National Laboratories -- Critical Skills Master's Program -- May 2013 - May 2015
Missouri University of Science and Technology -- Graduate Research Assistant -- January 2013 - May 2015
Sandia National Laboratories -- Summer Intern - Software Engineer -- May 2012 - August 2012
Missouri University of Science and Technology -- Research Assistant -- Nov 2011-January 2013
EDUCATION
2013-2015 Master's of Science in Computer Science at Missouri University of Science and Technology
2009-2013 Bachelor's of Science in Computer Science at Missouri University of Science and Technology
Publications
Rebecca A. Rivers, Alex R. Bertels, and Daniel R. Tauritz. Asynchronous parallel evolutionary algorithms: Leveraging heterogeneous fitness evaluation times for scalability and elitist parsimony pressure. In Proceedings of the Companion Publication of the 2015 on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, pages 14291430. ACM, 2015.
Rebecca A. Rivers and Daniel R. Tauritz. Evolving black-box search algorithms employing genetic programming. In Proceedings of the 15th annual conference companion on Genetic and evolutionary computation, pages 14971504. ACM, 2013.
Rebecca A. Rivers and Daniel R. Tauritz. Multi-sample evolution of robust black-box search algorithms. In Proceedings of the Companion Publication of the 2014 Annual Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation, pages 195196. ACM, 2014.
Rebecca A. Rivers and Daniel R. Tauritz. A problem configuration study of the robustness of a black-box search algorithm hyper-heuristic. In Proceedings of the Companion Publication of the 2014 Annual Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation, pages 13891396. ACM, 2014.
Rebecca A. Rivers and Daniel R. Tauritz. Hyper-heuristics: A study on increasing primitive-space. In Proceedings of the Companion Publication of the 2015 on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, pages 10511058. ACM, 2015.