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received (with his students) several
" best paper awards " at different international
conferences. His current
research interests include combinatorial
optimization, machine learning
and its synergies. Prof. Lozano is IEEE
Fellow since 2021 and has served on
the organizing and program committee
of over 70 international conferences
as the general chair of IEEE
Congress on Evolutionary Computation
(IEEE CEC 2017) and the European
Conference on Machine
Learning and Principles and Practice
of Knowledge Discovery in Databases
(ECML/PKDD 2021), program technical
co-chair of IEEE CEC 2013 and
the editor-in-chief of the Genetic and
Evolutionary Computation Conference
(GECCO 2020). He also serves
(or has served) as Associate Editor of
IEEE Trans. on Evolutionary Computation,
IEEE Trans. on Neural Network
and Learning Systems, IEEE
Trans. on Systems, Man and Cybernetics:
Systems and Evolutionary
Computation journal, to name a few.
He is also vice-chair of the CIS Spain
section chapter.
Alice E. Smith
Auburn University, USA
Alice E. Smith is a
Life Fellow of
IEEE and is the
Joe W. Forehand/
Accenture Distinguished
Professor
of the Industrial
and Systems Engineering
Department
at Auburn University, where she
served as Department Chair from 1999-
2011. She also has a joint appointment
with the Department of Computer Science
and Software Engineering. Dr.
Smith's research focus is analysis, modeling,
and optimization ofcomplex systems
with emphasis on computational intelligence.
She holds one U.S. patent and several
international patents and has authored
more than 200 publications which have
garnered over 17,000 citations and an H
Index of 51 (Google Scholar). She is the
editor ofWomen inComputational Intelligence:
Key Advances and Perspectives
on Emerging Topics (https://link.
springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-03079092-9)
and Women in Industrial and
Systems Engineering: Key Advances and
Perspectives on Emerging Topics
(https://www.springer.com/us/book/
9783030118655#aboutBook). Several of
her computational intelligence papers are
among the most highly cited in their
respective journals including the most
cited paper of Reliability Engineering &
System Safety and the 4th most cited paper
ofIEEE Transactions on Reliability.
Dr. Smith is the Editor-in-Chief
of INFORMS Journal on Computing
and an Area Editor of Computers &
Operations Research. Dr. Smith has
been a principal investigator on over
$10 million of sponsored research
with fundingbyNASA, U.S. Department
of Defense, Missile Defense
Agency, National Security Agency,
NIST, U.S. Department of Transportation,
Lockheed Martin, Adtranz
(now Bombardier Transportation),
the Ben Franklin Technology Center
of Western Pennsylvania, and U.S.
National Science Foundation, from
which she has been awarded 18 distinct
grants including a CAREER
grant and an ADVANCE Leadership
grant. International research collaborations
have been sponsored by Germany,
Mexico, Japan, Turkey,
United Kingdom, The Netherlands,
Egypt, South Korea, Iraq, China,
Colombia, Chile, Algeria, and the U.
S., and by the Institute of International
Education. In 2013 she was a
Fulbright Senior Scholar at Bilkent
University in Ankara, Turkey, in
2016 a Fulbright Specialist at EAFIT
in Medellin, Colombia, in 2017 a
Senior Fulbright Fellow at Pontifical
Catholic University of Valparaıso,
Chile, and in 2020, a Fulbright Specialist
at University La Sabana in
Bogota, Colombia.
Dr. Smith is a fellow of the Institute
of Electrical and Electronics
Engineers (IEEE), the Institute for
Operations Research and Management
Science (INFORMS), the Institute
of Industrial and Systems
Engineers (IISE), and a senior member
ofthe SocietyofWomen Engineers,
a member of Tau Beta Pi, and
a Registered Professional Engineer.
She was elected to serve on the
Administrative Committee of the
IEEE Computational Intelligence
Society from 2013-18 and 2020-24
andservedasassociate editor fortwo
IEEE journals. She was a keynote
speaker at the IEEE World Congress
on Computational Intelligence
(2018). She is a current and past
IEEE CIS Distinguished Lecturer.
Christian Wagner
University ofNottingham, UK
Christian Wagner
is Professor of
Computer Science
at the University
of Nottingham.
He is the founding
director of
LUCID-the Lab
for Uncertainty in
Data and Decision Making, where he
leads an interdisciplinary research program
for AI designed to support stakeholders
facing complex decision
making. His primary research interest is
in design of interpretable AI designed
for uncertain and complex human-centric
applications such as environmental
management, product design, robotics
and cyber security. He is a Co-I on the
U.K. Trustworthy Autonomous Systems
Hub; the Horizon: Trusted DataDriven
Products centre and has led a
number of interdisciplinary research
projects, including the £1m 'Leveraging
the Multi-Stakeholder Nature of
Cyber Security' EPSRC project. Internationally,
he is working closely with
colleagues across the social and physical
sciences and has been a visiting professor
at Michigan Tech, USA; the Interdisciplinary
Centre for Security,
Reliability and Trust at the University
ofLuxembourg and at the Department
of Social and Decision Science, Carnegie
Mellon University, USA.
Christian is an Associate Editor of
the IEEE Transactions on AI journal,
was General Co-Chair of IEEE
Computational Intelligence Society's
(CIS) Fuzz-IEEE 2021 conference and
lead organiser of the international CIS
mentoring program at the IEEE World
Congress on Computational Intelligence
2022.
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