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PROGRAM CHAIR


Thomas Bäck
Leiden University
Netherlands


Brief Bio
Thomas Bäck is professor of Computer Science at the Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science, Leiden University, Netherlands, since 2002. He received his PhD in Computer Science from Dortmund University, Germany, in 1994, and was leader of the Center for Applied Systems Analysis at the Informatik Centrum Dortmund until 2000. Thomas received the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (CIS) Evolutionary Computation Pioneer Award for his contributions in synthesizing evolutionary computation (2015), was elected as a fellow of the International Society of Genetic and Evolutionary Computation (ISGEC) for fundamental contributions to the field (2003), and received the best dissertation award from the "Gesellschaft für Informatik" in 1995. Thomas has more than 300 publications, as well as two books on evolutionary algorithms: Evolutionary Algorithms in Theory and Practice (1996), Contemporary Evolution Strategies (2013). He is co-editor of the Handbook of Evolutionary Computation and the Handbook of Natural Computing. Thomas is also Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Natural Computing Series (Springer) and the journal Theoretical Computer Science C (Elsevier), and editorial board member of various journals. Thomas’ research interests are in foundations and applications of evolutionary computation, efficient global optimization, and multiple objective optimization. Much of his recent research also addresses optimization methods in machine learning, e.g., for hyperparameter optimization, as well as supervised and unsupervised machine learning for smart industry applications. ... More >>



PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBERS

Haider Abbas, National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), Pakistan
Debi Prasanna Acharjya, VIT University, India
Miltos Alamaniotis, University of Texas at San Antonio, United States
Davide Bacciu, University of Pisa, Italy
Barry L. Bentley, Cardiff Metropolitan University, United Kingdom
Gilles Bernard, Paragraph Laboratory, Paris 8 University and France, France
Monica Bianchini, University of Siena, Italy
Anna Sergeevna Bosman, University of Pretoria, South Africa
William Randolph Buckley, California Evolution Institute, United States
Jinde Cao, Southeast University, China
Lin-Ching Chang, The Catholic University of America, United States
Domenico Ciuonzo, University of Naples Federico II, Italy
Jose de Jesus Rubio, Instituto Politecnico Nacional, Mexico
Kostantinos Demertzis, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece
Alex Doboli, Independent Researcher, United States
Witali Dunin-Barkowski, Russian Academy of Sciences, Scientific Research Institute for Systen Analysis, Center for Optical Neural Techhologies, Russian Federation
Richard J. Duro, Universidade Da Coruña, Spain
Eyad Elyan, Robert Gordon University, United Kingdom
Jan Faigl, Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic
Artur Jorge Ferreira, Instituto Superior de Eng. de Lisboa and Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal
Abbas Fotouhi, Cranfield University, United Kingdom
Benoit Frenay, University of Namur, Belgium
Xiao-Zhi Gao, University of Eastern Finland, Finland
Weinan Gao, Georgia Southern University, United States
Arfan Ghani, Coventry University, United Kingdom
Stefan Glüge, ZHAW School of Life Sciences and Facility Management, Switzerland
Juan Manuel Gorriz Saez, Independent Researcher, Spain
Daniel Graupe, University of Illinois, Chicago, Illinois, United States
Petr Hajek, Faculty of Economics and Administration, University of Pardubice, Czech Republic
Oussama H. Hamid, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom
Philipp Hoevel, University College Cork, Ireland
Martin Holena, Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic
Hongxiang Hu, Hangzhou Dianzi University, China
Sarangapani Jagannathan, Missouri University of Science and Technology, United States
Jaeseung Jeong, KAIST, Korea, Republic of
Magnus Johnsson, Malmö University, Sweden
Yonggui Kao, Harbin Institute of Technology at Weihai, China
Khairul Azhar Kasmiran, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Malaysia
Ajay Kaul, Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University, India
Vladik Kreinovich, University of Texas at El Paso, United States
John Lee, universite catholique de louvain, Belgium
Gang Li, Deakin University, Australia
Zhao Liang, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
Neel Mani, Amity University, India
Elena Marchiori, Radboud University, Netherlands
Jan Mares, University of Chemistry and Technology , Czech Republic
Konstantinos G. Margaritis, University of Macedonia, Greece
Jean-Jacques Mariage, Laboratoire d’Informatique Avancée de Saint-Denis and Université Paris 8, France
Juan Julian Merelo, University of Granada, Spain
Erzsébet Merényi, Rice University, United States
Anke Meyer-Baese, Florida State University, United States
Valeri Mladenov, Technical University of Sofia, Bulgaria
Saibal Mukhopadhyay, Georgia Institute of Technology, United States
Barry Nichols, Middlesex University, United Kingdom
Nicoletta Nicolaou, University of Nicosia Medical School, Cyprus
Mehdi Nikoo, Young Researchers and Elite Club, Ahvaz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Ahvaz, Iran, Islamic Republic of
Christian Omlin, University Agder, Norway
Patricio Orio, Universidad de Valparaíso, Chile
Mark Edwin Oxley, Air Force Institute of Technology, United States
Gary B. Parker, Connecticut College, United States
Danilo Pelusi, University of Teramo, Italy
Somnuk Phon-Amnuaisuk, Universiti Teknologi Brunei , Brunei Darussalam
Stephane Pinel, Mailchimp, United States
Vincenzo Piuri, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy
Antonello Rizzi, Università di Roma "La Sapienza", Italy
Dipanjan Roy, National Brain Research Centre, India
George Rudolph, Utah Valley University, United States
Humberto Sandmann, Insper, Brazil
Sreela Sasi, Gannon University, United States
Gerald Schaefer, Loughborough University, United Kingdom
Friedhelm Schwenker, University of Ulm, Germany
Fabio Scotti, Universita degli Studi di Milano, Italy
Andrzej Skowron, Institute of Mathematics UW, Poland
Leslie Samuel Smith, University of Stirling, United Kingdom
Micheal Spratling, King's College London, United Kingdom
Norikazu Takahashi, Okayama University, Japan
Tatiana Tambouratzis, University of Piraeus, Greece
Philippe Thomas, Université de Lorraine, France
Marcello Trovati, Edge Hill University, United Kingdom
Jan M. Van Campenhout, Ghent University, Belgium
Alfredo Vellido, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain
Petra Vidnerova, Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic
Wei Wei, Xi'an University of Technology, China
Guanghui Wen, Southeast University, China
Maojiao Ye, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, China
Wei-Chang Yeh, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan, Republic of China
Ricardo Zavala-Yoé, Instituto Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico
Haijun Zhang, Harbin Institute of Technology, China

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