Bart I. Rylander, Ph.D
Of Counsel
Mr. Rylander, a registered patent attorney, offers patent representation in technical arts covering computer science, computer engineering, electrical engineering, networking, telecommunications, and cyber security, among others.
Mr. Rylander served as Chief of the Software Development Section, Contracting Coordinator, Senior Software Controls Engineer, and Chief of Computer Engineering Section for the Army Corps of Engineers. Mr. Rylander also served two tours as Chief of Engineering, Design Lead in 
Afghanistan for the Afghanistan Engineering District of the United States Army Corps.
Mr. Rylander has also served as a Professor of Computer Science for the University of Portland, teaching courses in electrical engineering and computer science.
Mr. Rylander’s experience includes supervising the development of software for controlling dams and hydropower, developed using different languages including: C++, C sharp, Java, Java script, Assembly Language, and ladder logic. He has significant experience in Windows Linux and UNIX operating systems programming. He also has significant experience with cyber security and control systems at hydroelectric power plants.
Mr. Rylander worked previously for Booz, Allen Hamilton, in Bethesda, MD, as the senior consultant and chief architect in the development of the Emergency Preparedness Evolutionary Telecommunications Architecture in support of the National Communications Agency. The architecture consisted of layers of communications technologies that ensured that essential elements of the non-DOD Federal Government could remain in communications contact in the event of a man made or natural disaster. Mr. Rylander also worked several years for Motorola in the Federal systems divisions.
Mr. Rylander is a former Officer in the U.S. Air Force, reaching the rank of Captain and serving as the technical lead in the development of Unified LAN architecture to establish the U.S. Air Force standard local area network architecture. It included a unique protocol stack above a CSMA-CD Ethernet backbone. He also served as the Air Force liaison with ARPA, the DCA, and the NSA with regard to networking technology.
Funded Support:
“Impacts of Quantum Computation on Secure Information Transfer,” University of Idaho, Grant paid for by the National Security Agency. 8/1999
“Presentation of Published Papers,” University Faculty Funded Grant, University of Portland, 2002
“Computer Security Education,” Grant funded by the Naval Postgraduate School, 2003
Published Papers Presented (Peer Reviewed): Refereed
Rylander, T. Soule, J. Foster, J. Alves-Foss, Quantum Evolutionary Programming, Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, 2001.
Rylander, T. Soule, J. Foster, Computational Complexity, Genetic Programming, and Implications, Proceedings of the European Genetic Programming Conference, 2001.
Rylander, J. Foster, Genetic Algorithms and Hardness, Proceedings of the World Science and Engineering Society Conference on Soft Computing, 2001.
Rylander, J. Foster, Computational Complexity and Genetic Algorithms, Proceedings of the World Science and Engineering Society Conference on Soft Computing, 2001
Burnett, B. Rylander, A Convergence Bound for the Genetic Algorithm, Proceedings of the World Science and Engineering Society Conference on Soft Computing, May 2002.
Gotshall, B. Rylander, Optimal Population Size and the Genetic Algorithm, Proceedings of the World Science and Engineering Society Conference on Soft Computing, May 2002.
Myers, B. Rylander, Divide and Conquer in Genetic Algorithms: Generating Paths on Height Fields, Proceedings of the World Science and Engineering Society Conference on Soft Computing, May 2002.
Settles, B. Rylander, Neural Network Learning Using Particle Swarm Optimizers, Proceedings of the World Science and Engineering Society Conference on Soft Computing, May 2002.
Head, B. Rylander, Genetic Algorithms with Multiple Crossover Revisited, Proceedings of the World Science and Engineering Society Conference on Soft Computing, May 2004.
Jones, B. Rylander, Finding More Fit Chromosomes Using the Rapid Fire GA, Proceedings of the World Science and Engineering Society Conference on Soft Computing, May 2004.
Journal Publications:
Rylander, K. Lulay, Genetic Algorithm for Truss Optimization, Journal of the World Science and Engineering Society. (Presented at the May 2004 conference published in the Journal in Aug. 2004.)
Short Refereed:
Rylander, On GP Complexity, Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, 2000.
Rylander, J. Foster, GA-Hard Problems, Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, 2000.
Burnett, B. Rylander, A Bound on GA Convergence, Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, 2001.Lulay, B. Rylander, Optimizing Truss Design, Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, 2003.
Oberoi, B. Rylander, Determining the Best Parent Selection Method for a Genetic Algorithm through Varying Problem Sizes and Complexities, Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, 2004.
Served as conference peer-reviewer:
2002 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference
2002 European Genetic Programming Conference
2003 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference
2003 European Genetic Programming Conference
2004 European Genetic Programming Conference
2006 Congress on Evolutionary Computation
2006 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference
Served as reviewer for the following journals:
IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation [2002]
BioSystems [2003]
Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines [2002]
Served as reviewer for the following text:
Assembly Language 2, William Jones, Scott/Jones Publishers [2002]