Event organisation and committees

Societies

• • vice-president and Secretary of the Society for the Promotion of Evolutionary Computation in Europe, SPECIES

  • Elect member of the Executive Committee of the Special Interest Group on Evolutionary Computation (SIGEVO) of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

  • Senior Member of the IEEE

  • Member of the ACM

  • Member of the Computational Intelligence Society (CIS) of the IEEE

Conference Organisation

• • General Chair of ACM-GECCO 2015

  • Chair and initiator of the SecDef workshop at ACM-GECCO 2014

  • Organiser of the Workshops on Computational Intelligence Applied to Business and Industry, 2008 and 2009 (Jornadas sobre Inteligencia Computacional Aplicada al Negocio, JICAN)

  • Member of the organising committe of Evo* 2011-2015

  • Chair and initiator of the tracks on  Nature-inspired algorithms in Software Engineering and Testing, EvoSET, and Bio-inspired Algorithms for Continuous Parameter Optimisation, EvoNUM, part of the EvoApplications conference within Evo*.

Evo* are the main European events on Evolutionary Computation. Next edition will be held on 4-6 April 2018 in Parma, Italy

• • Chair and initiator of EvoCompetitions, part of Evo* 2011

  • Chair of EuroGP 2010

  • Co-chair and initiator of EvoGAMES, part of Evo* 2009

  • Co-chair and initiator of Computational Intelligence for Risk Management, Security and Defence Applications, EvoRISK,  part of Evo* 2012-2015

  • Publicity Chair of Evo* 2008

  • Local chair of Evo* 2007

Conference Programme Committees