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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

Robiah Ahmad, University of Technology Malaysia, Malaysia
Mohammed Al-Betar, Ajman University, United Arab Emirates
Ibrahim Aljarah, The University of Jordan, Jordan
Sabri Arik, Istanbul University-Cerrahpasa, Turkey
Dalila B. M. M. Fontes, Faculdade de Economia and LIAAD-INESC TEC, Universidade do Porto, Portugal
Jerzy Balicki, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland
Matthieu Basseur, University of Angers, France
Adrian Bekasiewicz, Gdansk University Technology, Poland
Peter Bentley, University College London, United Kingdom
Janos Botzheim, Eötvös Loránd University Faculty of Informatics, Hungary
Alexander Brownlee, University of Stirling, United Kingdom
Stefano Cagnoni, Department of Engineering and Architecture, University of Parma, Italy
Fabio Caraffini, Swansea University, United Kingdom
Enrique J. Carmona, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Spain
Pedro Angel Castillo Valdivieso, University of Granada, Spain
Paolo Cazzaniga, University of Bergamo, Italy
Francisco Chicano, University of Málaga, Spain
Vincent A Cicirello, Stockton University, United States
J. Manuel Colmenar, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain
Andy M. Connor, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand
Vincenzo Conti, Kore University of Enna, Italy
Donato D'Ambrosio, University of Calabria, Italy
Grégoire Danoy, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Marc Ebner, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universität Greifswald, Germany
Khaled M El-Naggar, College Technological Studies, Kuwait
Andres Faina, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Wei Fang, Jiangnan University, China
Hossam Faris, University of Jordan, Jordan
Paola Festa, University of Napoli, Italy
Steffen Finck, Vorarlberg University Applied Sciences, Austria
Gianluigi Folino, ICAR-CNR, Italy
José Fonseca, UNINOVA, Portugal
Francesco Fontanella, Università di Cassino e del Lazio Meridionale, Italy
Francisco José Gallego-Durán, University of Alicante, Spain
Mario Garza-Fabre, Cinvestav, Mexico
Adrien Goeffon, University of Angers, France
Tao Gong, Education Testing Service, United States
David Greiner, Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (ULPGC), Spain
Pauline C Haddow, The Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
Heiko Hamann, University of Lübeck, Germany
Oussama H. Hamid, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom
Gareth Howells, University of Kent, United Kingdom
Turker Ince, Izmir University Economics, Turkey
Dariusz Jacek Jakóbczak, Technical University of Koszalin, Poland
Cezary Z Janikow, University Missouri Saint Louis, United States
Juan Luis Jimenez Laredo, University of Le Havre, France
Nicolas Jozefowiez, University of Lorraine, France
Iwona Karcz-Duleba, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland
Ahmed Kheiri, Lancaster University, United Kingdom
Chih-Chin Lai, National University Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Republic of China
Nuno Leite, Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Lisboa, Portugal
Rhyd Lewis, Cardiff University, United Kingdom
Wen-Yang Lin, National University of Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Republic of China
Fernando G. Lobo, University Of The Algarve, Portugal
Wenjian Luo, Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, China
Penousal Machado, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Luca Manzoni, University of Trieste, Italy
Philip K. McKinley, Michigan State University, United States
Miguel Alberto Melgarejo, Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas, Colombia
Mohamed Arezki Mellal, M'Hamed Bougara University, Algeria
Carmelo Militello, National Research Council (CNR), Italy
Mustafa Misir, Istinye University, Turkey
Soumya D. Mohanty, The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, United States
Jean-Marc Montanier, Faurecia, France
Roman Neruda, Institute Computer Science Ascr, Czech Republic
Marco S. Nobile, University Of Milano-bicocca, Italy
Rafael Nogueras, Universidad de Málaga, Spain
Nasimul Noman, University of Newcastle, Australia
Luis Nunes, Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL) and Instituto de Telecomunicações (IT), Portugal
Shigeru Obayashi, Tohoku University, Japan
Diarmuid P. O'Donoghue, Computer Science, Maynooth University, Ireland
Gary B. Parker, Connecticut College, United States
Paola Pellegrini, French Institute of Science and Technology for Transport, France
David A. Pelta, University of Granada, Spain
Clara Pizzuti, National Research Council (CNR), Italy
Clara Pizzuti, National Research Council of Italy - CNR, Italy
Daniel Porumbel, Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers, Paris (CNAM), France
Marcus Randall, Bond University, Australia
José Carlos Bregieiro Ribeiro, Instituto Politécnico de Leiria, Portugal
Eduardo Rodriguez-Tello, Cinvestav, Mexico
Conor Ryan, University of Limerick, Ireland
José Santos, University of A Coruña, Spain
Frédéric Saubion, University of Angers, France
Thomas Schmickl, Karl Franzens University Graz, Austria
Patrick Siarry, University Paris 12 (LiSSi), France
Riyaz Sikora, University Texas Arlington, United States
Moshe Sipper, Ben-Gurion University, Israel
Andrzej Skowron, Institute of Mathematics UW, Poland
Dominik Sobania, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany
Tatiana Tambouratzis, University of Piraeus, Greece
Wallace K.S. Tang, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Sara Tari, Université du Littoral Côte d'Opale, France
Saeed Tavakoli, University Of Sistan And Baluchestan, Iran, Islamic Republic of
Dirk Thierens, Utrecht University, Netherlands
Marco Tomassini, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
Rafael Villanueva, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain
Hui Wang, Nanchang Institute of Technology, China
Yifei Wang, Georgia Institute of Technology, United States
T.C. Wong, The University Of Strathclyde, United Kingdom
Takeshi Yamada, NTT, Japan
Amelia Zafra, University Córdoba, Spain
Ciprian Zavoianu, Robert Gordon University, United Kingdom
Xinchao Zhao, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China

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