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Joaquim Filipe
Polytechnic Institute of Setubal
Portugal
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Short Bio
Joaquim B L Filipe is currently a Coordinator Professor of the School of Technology of the Polytechnic Institute of Setúbal (EST-Setúbal), Portugal. He got his PhD at the School of Computing of Staffordshire University, U.K, in 2000.
His main areas of research involve Artificial Intelligence and Multi-Agent System theory and applications to different domains, with an emphasis on social issues in activity coordination, especially in organizational modelling and simulation, where he has been actively involved in several R&D projects, including national and international programs. He represented EST-Setúbal in
several European projects.
He has over 200 publications, including papers in conferences and journals, edited books, and conference proceedings. He started several conference series, sponsored by INSTICC and technically co-sponsored or in cooperation with major International Associations.
He took part in over 100 conference and workshop program committees and he is on the editorial board of a Springer book series.
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Niki van Stein
LIACS, Leiden University
Netherlands
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Short Bio
Niki van Stein is Associate Professor of Explainable AI at the Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS), Leiden University, where she leads the XAI research group. Her research sits at the intersection of explainable AI, automated algorithm design and metaheuristic optimization, with a particular focus on using large language models to automatically discover and improve optimization algorithms.
She is the lead developer of LLaMEA, an award-winning framework for LLM-driven algorithm evolution, and has broad experience applying these methods to real-world problems in engineering, predictive mainte
nance, and scientific design.
Alongside her research, she is active in the international evolutionary computation and AutoML communities as a conference organizer, program committee member and editorial board member. She holds a PhD from Leiden University and previously co-founded and led a software company as CTO, giving her a strong background in bridging academic research and industrial practice.
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