Rick L. Riolo

Rick L. Riolo (1950-2018) was a complex systems researcher and full professor at University of Michigan.

Biography
Rick Riolo was born in East Lansing, Michigan on September 4, 1950 He was married to Sue Monet and they had one daughter, Maria Annichia Riolo. He received an undergraduate degree at UMich in 1972 for molecular biology did his Ph.D. at University of Michigan under John H. Holland in 1988 in computer science. He was one of the first two faculty members of the Program for the Study of Complex Systems at University of Michigan, established in the late-1980s. He use computational techniques to study a wide variety of fields, including the evolution of cooperation, genetic algorithms, agent-based modelling, and genetic computing. In 2018, he died of a degenerative muscle disorder.