Dr. Carlos Segura was born in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain, on August 03, 1983. He received his M.S. degree in Computer Science from the Universidad de La Laguna in 2009, and his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the Universidad de La Laguna, in 2012. He has authored and co-authored over 75 technical papers and book chapters, including 27 journal papers. His publications currently report over 850 citations in Google Scholar and his h-index is 18. Currently he serves on the editorial board of several international conferences and have co-organized the track of Genetic Algorithms at GECCO'20 and GECCO'21. His main research interests are: design of evolutionary algorithms, diversity management and problem solving paradigms. He has been part of the winning team of several optimization-oriented competitions, such as the extended version of the Google Hash Code 2020 and the Parameterized Algorithms and Computational Experiments Challenge 2018. Dr. Segura is a Member of the IEEE and a member of the ACM. He is currently an Associate Researcher in the Computer Science Department at the Centre for Research in Mathematics.

E-mail: carlos.segura@cimat.mx

Dr. Eduardo Segredo was born in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain, in 1984. He received the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees from the Universidad de La Laguna, San Cristóbal de La Laguna, Spain, in 2006, 2008, and 2014, respectively, all in Computer Science. He is currently a Lecturer with the Departamento de Ingeniería Informática y de Sistemas, Universidad de La Laguna. He has authored and co-authored over 50 technical papers and book chapters, including more than 15 journal papers. His publications currently report over 300 citations in Google Scholar with an H-index of 12. His current research interests include single/multi/many-objective optimisation, evolutionary algorithms, meta-heuristics and machine learning. Dr. Segredo currently serves on the editorial board of several international conferences and review papers for several prestigious international journals. Finally he is a member of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society since 2014.

E-mail: esegredo@ull.edu.es

Dr. Gara Miranda was born in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain, on May 4, 1981. She obtained the Degree in Computer Science from the Universidad de La Laguna, San Cristóbal de La Laguna, Spain, in 2004, the M.Sc. Degree in Computer Science from the Universidad de La Laguna, in 2006, and the Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Universidad de La Laguna, in 2009. She is currently an Associate Professor at the Department of Computer and Systems Engineering of Universidad de La Laguna. Her research has been concerned with high performance computing and optimization of real - single and multi-objective - problems by applying heuristics, meta-heuristics and hyper-heuristics. She has published over 60 technical papers and book chapters, including more than 10 journal papers. Her research has been also associated with participation in 15 research projects (of national, regional and local level) in collaboration agreements with external entities.

E-mail: gmiranda@ull.edu.es