Marco Dorigo's publications have been cited more than 166,000 times; his h-index is 126 (computed on Google Scholar, 15.05.2026).

ORCID: 0000-0002-3971-0507
 
2026: Named Honorary Fellow of the Faculty of Computer Science at AGH University of Krakow, Poland
2026: Honorary Chair for ANTS 2026 - Fifthteenth International Conference on Swarm Intelligence
2024: AI Generated Podcasts from Marco Dorigo's Articles
2024: Honorary Chair for ANTS 2024 - Fourteenth International Conference on Swarm Intelligence
2022: General Chair for ANTS 2022 - Thirteenth International Conference on Swarm Intelligence
2020: Vice-general Chair for DARS 2020 - 15th International Symposium on Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems
2020: Vice-general Chair for SWARM 2020 - The 4th International Symposium on Swarm Behavior and Bio-Inspired Robotics
2020: General Chair for ANTS 2020 - Twelfth International Conference on Swarm Intelligence
2019: Vice-general Chair for SWARM 2019 - The 3rd International Symposium on Swarm Behavior and Bio-Inspired Robotics
2016: Recipient of the IEEE Evolutionary Computation Pioneer Award
2015: Recipient of the IEEE Frank Rosenblatt Award
2015: Honorary Chair for IEEE SSCI 2015 - Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence
2015: Honorary Doctorate awarded on April 21, 2015, by University of Pretoria
2015: Elected AAAI fellow
2012: Botsker Award for Innovative Technology at the 2012 Robot Film Festival, New York, July 14, 2012
2011: AAAI Best AI Video Award for the Movie "Swarmanoid, The Movie"
2010: ERC Advanced Grant awarded to Marco Dorigo for the project "E-Swarm: Engineering Swarm Intelligence Systems"
On November 27, 2007, Marco Dorigo received the "CajAstur International Prize for Soft Computing".
Best Video Award at the AAAI-07 AI Video Competition, Vancouver, 2007.
In 2007 Springer launched the new journal "Swarm Intelligence".
Article on "Swarm Theory" appeared in the July 2007 issue of the National Geographic Magazine.
In 2007 Marco Dorigo was named ECCAI fellow.
In 2006 Marco Dorigo was named IEEE fellow.
On November 22, 2005, the King of Belgium presented the "FNRS - Dr A. De Leeuw-Damry-Bourlart award in Applied Sciences" to Marco Dorigo for his fundamental contributions to the foundation of the swarm intelligence research field.
Forthcoming invited talks.
 
Open positions for doctoral students in swarm robotics
 
 
Ant Colony Optimization
Home page maintained by Marco Dorigo.

Swarm-bots
Home page of the IST-FET project "Swarm-bots" coordinated by Marco Dorigo.

ANTS: The International Workshop on Ant Colony Optimization and Swarm Intelligence
Home page of the ANTS series of workshops founded by Marco Dorigo.

In 2003 Marco Dorigo received European Commission's Marie Curie Excellence Award for his research on Ant Colony Optimization and Ant Algorithms.

Swarm intelligence research and book cited in Crichton's novel Prey.  
 
Tutorial speaker on "An Introduction to Ant Colony Optimization and Swarm Intelligence" at the "Ninth International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving From Nature (PPSN IX)", Reykjavik, Iceland (Sep 10, 2006).

Tutorial speaker on "Ant Colony Optimization" at the "6th Metaheuristics International Conference ", Vienna, Austria (Aug 24, 2005).

Tutorial speaker on "Fundamentals and Applications of Ant Colony Optimization" at the "IEEE Swarm Intelligence Symposium", Pasadena, California (Jun 8, 2005).

Tutorial speaker on "An Introduction to Ant Colony Optimization and Swarm Intelligence" at the "Eight International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving From Nature (PPSN VIII)," Birmingham, UK (Sep 19, 2004).

Tutorial speaker on "Ant Colony Optimization and Swarm Intelligence: An Introduction" at the "Fourth International Workshop on Ant Colony Optimization and Swarm Intelligence (ANTS 2004)," Brussels, Belgium (Sep 5, 2004).

Tutorial speaker on "An Introduction to Ant Algorithms and Swarm Intelligence" at the "European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2002)," Lyon, France (Jul 22, 2002).

Tutorial speaker on "Ant Colony Optimization" at the "EvoNet Summer School", Thessaloniki, Greece (Aug 27 - Sep 1, 2001).

Tutorial speaker on "Ant Algorithms and Swarm Intelligence" at "IJCAI-01 - Seventeenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence", Seattle, WA, USA (Aug 6, 2001).

Tutorial speaker on "Ant Colony Optimization and Swarm Intelligence" at the "Santa Fe Complex Systems Summer School", Budapest, Hungary (Jul 25, 2001).

Tutorial speaker on "An Introduction to Ant Algorithms" at the "Joint tutorials of SAB 2000 and PPSN 2000," Paris, France (Sep 17, 2000).

Tutorial speaker on "Ant Algorithms and Swarm Intelligence: An Introduction" at the "European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2000)," Berlin, Germany (Aug 21, 2000).

Tutorial speaker on "Ant Algorithms" at the "2000 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2000)," Las Vegas, NV, USA (Jul 9, 2000).

Tutorial speaker on "An Introduction to Ant Algorithms" at the "9th Belgian-Dutch Conference on Machine Learning (BENELEARN-99)," Maastricht, The Netherlands (Nov 5, 1999).

Tutorial speaker on "An Introduction to Ant Algorithms" at the "5th European Conference On Artificial Life (ECAL99)," Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland (Sep 13, 1999).

Tutorial speaker on "Introduction to Ant Colony Optimization" at the "1999 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-99)," Orlando, FL, USA (Jul 14, 1999).

Tutorial speaker on "Artificial Life: The Swarm Intelligence Approach" at the "IEEE 1999 International Congress On Evolutionary Computation," Washington D.C., USA (Jul 6, 1999).

Tutorial speaker at the "Artificial Intelligence and Beyond" course, organized by the Flanders Language Valley Education and K.U. Leuven Campus Kortrijk, Belgium (Apr 14, 1999).

Tutorial speaker on "Ant Colony Optimization" at the "Fifth International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving From Nature (PPSN V)," Amsterdam, The Netherlands (Sep 27, 1998).

Tutorial speaker on "Ant Colony Optimization" at the "Third Annual Genetic Programming Conference (GP-98)," Madison, WI, USA (Jul 22-25, 1998).
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