Charles A. Ofria is a professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Michigan State University.
Ofira is the son of the late Charles Ofria,[3] who developed the first fully integrated shop management program for the automotive repair industry.
[4] His research focuses on the relationship between computer science and Darwinian evolution.
He is one of the original designers of Avida, an artificial life software platform used to study the evolutionary biology of self-replicating digital organisms.
[5] Avida was initially developed at Caltech in 1993 by Ofria, Chris Adami and C. Titus Brown and remains under active development in his Digital Evolution Lab at Michigan State University.