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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 P. Acharjya, VIT University, India
Miltos Alamaniotis, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Texas at San Antonio, United States
Davide Bacciu, University of Pisa, Italy
Barry L. Bentley, Cardiff School of Technologies, Cardiff Metropolitan University, United Kingdom
Gilles Bernard, Computer Science, LIASD Laboratory, Paris 8 University and France, France
Monica Bianchini, Department of Information Engineering and Mathematics, University of Siena, Italy
Anna S. Bosman, University of Pretoria, South Africa
William R. Buckley, Evolutionary Systems, California Evolution Institute, United States
Jinde Cao, School of Mathematics, Southeast University, China
Lin-Ching Chang, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, The Catholic University of America, United States
Domenico Ciuonzo, University of Naples Federico II, Italy
Jose de Jesus Rubio, Seccion de Estudios de Posgrado e Investigacion, ESIME Azcapotzalco, Instituto Politecnico Nacional, Mexico
Kostantinos Demertzis, School of Civil Engineering, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece
Alex Doboli, Independent Researcher, United States
Witali Dunin-Barkowski, Department of Neuroinformatics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Scientific Research Institute for Systen Analysis, Center for Optical Neural Techhologies, Russian Federation
Richard J. Duro, Computacion, Universidade Da Coruña, Spain
Eyad Elyan, Computing, Robert Gordon University, United Kingdom
Jan Faigl, Department of Computer Science, Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic
Artur J. Ferreira, DEETC - Gabinete F.0.31, Instituto Superior de Eng. de Lisboa and Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal
Abbas Fotouhi, Advanced Vehicle Engineering Centre, 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, Institute of Computational Life Sciences, ZHAW School of Life Sciences and Facility Management, Switzerland
Juan Manuel Gorriz Saez, Independent Researcher, Spain
Daniel Graupe, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Neurology & Rehabilitation Medicine, 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, Jubilee Campus, Wollaton Road, Nottingham, NG8 1BB, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom
Philipp Hoevel, Applied Mathetmatics, University College Cork, Ireland
Martin Holena, Institute of Computer Science, Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic
Hongxiang Hu, Hangzhou Dianzi University, China
Sarangapani Jagannathan, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Missouri University of Science and Technology, United States
Jaeseung Jeong, Bio and Brain Engineering, KAIST, Korea, Republic of
Magnus Johnsson, Malmö University, Sweden
Yonggui Kao, Harbin Institute of Technology at Weihai, China
Khairul A. Kasmiran, Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Malaysia
Ajay Kaul, Computer Science & Engineering, 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 Institute of Information Technology, Amity University, India
Elena Marchiori, Computer Science, Radboud University, Netherlands
Jan Mares, Department of Computing and Control Engineering, University of Chemistry and Technology, Czech Republic
Konstantinos G. Margaritis, Applied Informatics, University of Macedonia, Greece
Jean-Jacques Mariage, Informatique, Laboratoire d’Informatique Avancée de Saint-Denis and Université Paris 8, France
Juan Julian Merelo, ICAR/CITIC, University of Granada, Spain
Erzsébet Merényi, Statistics, and Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice University, United States
Anke Meyer-Baese, Florida State University, United States
Valeri Mladenov, Theory of Electrical Engineering, Technical University of Sofia, Bulgaria
Saibal Mukhopadhyay, Georgia Institute of Technology, United States
Barry Nichols, Computer Science, 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, Instituto de Neurociencia, Universidad de Valparaíso, Chile
Mark E. Oxley, Dept of Mathematics & Statistics, Air Force Institute of Technology, United States
Gary B. Parker, Computer Science, Connecticut College, United States
Danilo Pelusi, University of Teramo, Italy
Somnuk Phon-Amnuaisuk, Universiti Teknologi Brunei, Brunei Darussalam
Stephane Pinel, Data Science, Mailchimp, United States
Vincenzo Piuri, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy
Antonello Rizzi, Department of Information Engineering, Electronics and Telecommunications, Università di Roma "La Sapienza", Italy
Dipanjan Roy, Neuroimaging, Computational and Cognitive Neuroscience, National Brain Research Centre, India
George Rudolph, Computer Science, Utah Valley University, United States
Humberto Sandmann, Engineering Department, Insper, Brazil
Sreela Sasi, Computer and Information Science, Gannon University, United States
Gerald Schaefer, Department of Computer Science, Loughborough University, United Kingdom
Friedhelm Schwenker, Institute of Neural Information Processing, University of Ulm, Germany
Fabio Scotti, Computer Science, Universita degli Studi di Milano, Italy
Andrzej Skowron, Institute of Mathematics UW, Poland
Leslie S. Smith, Computing Science and Mathematics, University of Stirling, United Kingdom
Micheal Spratling, King's College London, United Kingdom
Norikazu Takahashi, Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology, Okayama University, Japan
Tatiana Tambouratzis, Industrial Management & Technology, University of Piraeus, Greece
Philippe Thomas, CRAN, Université de Lorraine, France
Marcello Trovati, Computer Science, Edge Hill University, United Kingdom
Jan M. Van Campenhout, ELIS, Ghent University, Belgium
Alfredo Vellido, Computer Science, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain
Petra Vidnerova, Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic
Wei Wei, Xi'an University of Technology, China
Guanghui Wen, School of Mathematics, Southeast University, China
Maojiao Ye, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, China
Wei-Chang Yeh, Department of industrial engineering and engineering management, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan, Republic of China
Ricardo Zavala-Yoé, Mechatronics, Instituto Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico
Haijun Zhang, Harbin Institute of Technology, China

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