Organizers

This special session is organized by IEEE CIS ETTC Task Force on Creative Intelligence.

Francisco Fernández de Vega

University of Extremadura, Spain

Francisco Fernández is currently Professor of Computer Architecture at the University of Extremadura. He received his BS from the University of Seville 1993, MS from the University of Seville 1997, and Ph.D from the University of Extremadura 2001, and received the best PhD Engineering award in 2002. His research interests include Parallel and Distributed Evolutionary Algorithms and their applications to  multiple aspects of art and design. He is associate editor of Artificial Intelligence Communications. He has published more than 250 journal and conference papers. His research on evolutionary art deserved the 2013 ACM Gecco Evolutionary Art, Design and Creativity Competition award. His XYZ collaborative art project was recently selected as finalist at 2017 Show Your World International Competition in New York.  His project Sharpmony has recieved the best artificial intelligence APP Award, by th Spanish Association for Artificial Intelligence en 2021.

Chuan-Kang Ting

National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan

Chuan-Kang Ting (S’01–M’06–SM’13) received the B.S. degree from National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan, the M.S. degree from National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan, and the Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the Paderborn University, Germany, in 2005. He is currently a Professor with the Department of Power Mechanical Engineering, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan. His research interests include evolutionary computation, computational intelligence, machine learning, and their applications in music, arts, networks, bioinformatics, and data analytics. Dr. Ting is the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine. He is also an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence and an Editorial Board Member of Soft Computing and Memetic Computing journals. He serves as the IEEE CIS Newsletter Editor, the Vice Chair of Intelligent Systems Applications Technical Committee, the Chair of Creative Intelligence Task Force, and the Vice Chair of the Intelligent Network Systems Task Force, all in IEEE CIS. He is an Executive Board Member of Taiwanese Association for Artificial Intelligence.

Rolando Miragaia

Polytechnique University of Leiria

Dr. Rolando Miragaia received his B.S and M.S degrees in Electrotechnics and Computers Engineering from Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon, Portugal. He received his PhD degree from the University of Extremadura, Spain, in 2022. He was a researcher at the University of Extremadura in the GEA, Artificial Evolutionary Group (2019-2021). He is currently an investigator at the Polytechnic of Leiria in the Computer Science and Communication Research Center (CIIC). He has been Professor of the Department of Computer Science at the Polytechnic of Leiria since 2001, teaching artificial intelligence among other subjects. His research interests include signal processing, automatic music transcription, computer vision, artificial intelligence, evolutionary algorithms, cartesian genetic programming.

Yu-Wei Wen

National United University, Taiwan

Dr. Wen received his B.S. degree and Ph.D. degree in computer science and information engineering from National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan, in 2015 and 2022, respectively. He is currently an Assistant Professor with the Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National United University, Taiwan. His research interests include evolutionary computation, memetic computing, evolutionary multitask optimization, machine learning, and algorithmic music composition.