Contact

Office:
ETSI Informática (3.2.49)
Universidad de Málaga
Bulevar Louis Pasteur, 35
29071 Málaga, Spain

Grants

• Bio4Res - New Bioinspired Techniques for Resilience and Sustainability, Plan Nacional I+D, Ministry of Science and Innovation, PID2021-125184NB-I00, 2022-2025
• DeepBio - New Bioinspired Computing Models for Massively Complex Environments, Plan Nacional I+D, Ministry of Economy, Industry and Competitiveness, TIN2017-85727-C4-1-P, 2018-2020
• EphemeCH - Bioinspired Algorithms in Complex Ephemeral Environments, Plan Nacional I+D, Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness, TIN2014-56494-C4-1-P, 2015-2018
• ANYSELF - Self-* Properties in Bioinspired Algorithms and Complex Systems, Plan Nacional I+D, Ministry of Innovation and Science, TIN2011-28627-C04, 2012-2014
• NEMESIS - New Metaheuristics for Finding Subjectively Interesting Solutions, Plan Nacional I+D, Ministry of Innovation and Science, TIN2008-05941, 2009-2011
• Hybridizing Branch-and-Bound with Evolutionary Algorithms for Solving Tree-Structured Combinatorial Optimization Problems, Integrated Action, Ministry of Science and Technology, HU2005-0011, 2006-2007

Awards

• Award for Outstanding Contribution to EC in Europe (2019)

Editorial Roles

• Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence (Springer), Editorial Board
• Memetic Computing (Springer), Editorial Board
• Journal of Computational Science (Elsevier), Editorial Board
• Evolutionary Computation Journal (MIT Press), Editorial Board
• Computer Science Journal (AGH University of Science and Technology), Editorial Board

Organizational Activities

• GECCO 2025 (Málaga, Spain), Local co-Chair, 2025
• XIV Congreso Español de Metaheurísticas, Algoritmos Evolutivos y Bioinspirados (Málaga, Spain), General Co-Chair, 2021
• GECCO 2021 (Lille, France), General Evolutionary Computation and Hybrids track co-Chair, 2021
• GECCO 2020 (Cancún, Mexico), General Evolutionary Computation and Hybrids track co-Chair, 2020
• GECCO 2019 (Prague, Czech Republic), Workshop co-Chair, 2020
• EvoApplications 2019 (Leipzig, Germany), General Thematic Area Programme co-Chair, 2019
• GECCO 2018 (Kyoto, Japan), Workshop co-Chair, 2018
• EvoStar track on Evolutionary Algorithms and Complex Systems, Programme co-Chair, 2010-2018
• GECCO 2016 (Denver, USA), Tutorial Chair, 2016
• GECCO 2015 (Madrid, Spain), Evolutionary Combinatorial Optimization and Metaheuristics track co-Chair, 2015
• IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computational Intelligence (Singapore), Programme co-Chair, 2013
• EvoStar 2012, the main European events on Evolutionary Computation (Malaga, Spain), Local Chair, 2012
• IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computational Intelligence (Paris, France), Programme co-Chair, 2011
• 11th International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving From Nature (Krakow, Poland), Programme co-Chair, 2010
• GECCO 2009 (Montreal, Canada), Combinatorial Optimization and Metaheuristics Track co-Chair, 2009
• 9th European Conference on Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimisation (Tübingen, Germany), Programme co-Chair, 2009
• 8th European Conference on Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimisation (Naples, Italy), Programme co-Chair, 2008
• 5th International workshop on Hybrid Metaheuristics (Málaga, Spain), General Chair, 2008
• 7th European Conference on Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimisation (Valencia, Spain), Programme co-Chair, 2007
• 7th EU/MEeting on Adaptive, Self-Adaptive, and Multi-Level Metaheuristics (Málaga, Spain), General Chair, 2006
• 4th European Workshop on Evolutionary Computation and Machine Learning in Bioinformatics (Budapest, Hungary),, Programme co-Chair, 2006
• 5th Meeting on Multiagent Systems and New Trends in Soft Computing - Agent Days 2005 (Málaga, Spain), Conference Chair, 2005
• 7th Foundations of Genetic Algorithms - FOGA 2002 (Torremolinos, Spain),, Local Chair, 2002

Students and Mentoring

• José Enrique Gallardo Ruiz, UMA (Ph.D., 2008)
• Jhon Edgar Amaya Salazar, UMA (Ph.D., 2011)
• Miguel Monteiro de Sousa Frade, UEX (Ph.D., 2012)
• Rafael Nogueras Sánchez, UMA (Ph.D., 2015)
• Raúl Lara Cabrera, UMA (Ph.D., 2015)
• Mariela Nogueira Collazo, UMA (Ph.D., 2017)
• David Rodríguez Rueda, UMA (Ph.D., 2020)
• Feijoo Eduardo Colomine Durán, UMA (Ph.D., 2026)

Affiliation

UMA

Universidad de Málaga

ITIS Software

Instituto de Tecnología e Ingeniería del Software