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      <h1>Kalyanmoy Deb</h1>
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        Kalyanmoy Deb is one of the most cited researchers in optimization, evolutionary
        computation, multi-objective optimization, machine learning, and artificial
        intelligence. He is best known for developing NSGA-II and NSGA-III, algorithms that have become
        the standard approach to multi-objective and many-objective optimization across
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