Prof. Xin Yao (M’91-SM’96-F’03) is a Chair Professor of Computer Science at the Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China, and a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Birmingham, UK. He is an IEEE Fellow, and a Distinguished Lecturer of IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (CIS). His major research interests include evolutionary computation, ensemble learning, and their applications in software engineering. He has been working on multi-objective optimisation since 2003, when he published a well-cited EMO’03 paper on many objective optimisation. His research won the 2001 IEEE Donald G. Fink Prize Paper Award, 2010, 2016, and 2017 IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION Outstanding Paper Awards, 2010 BT Gordon Radley Award for Best Author of Innovation (Finalist), 2011 IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON NEURAL NETWORKS Outstanding Paper Award, and many other best paper awards. He received the prestigious Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award in 2012 and the IEEE CIS Evolutionary Computation Pioneer Award in 2013. He was the the President (2014-15) of IEEE CIS, and the Editor-in-Chief (2003-08) of IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION.

Prof. Hisao Ishibuchi (M’93–SM’10–F’14) received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in precision mechanics from Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, in 1985 and 1987, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in computer science from Osaka Prefecture University, Sakai, Japan, in 1992. Since 1987, he has been with Osaka Prefecture University for 30 years. He is currently a Chair Professor with the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China. His current research interests include fuzzy rule-based classifiers, evolutionary multiobjective optimization, many-objective optimization, and memetic algorithms. Dr. Ishibuchi was the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (CIS) Vice-President for Technical Activities from 2010 to 2013. He is an IEEE CIS AdCom Member from 2014 to 2019, an IEEE CIS Distinguished Lecturer from 2015 to 2017, and an Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine from 2014 to 2019. He is also an Associate Editor of the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION, the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON CYBERNETICS, and the IEEE ACCESS.

Prof. Emma Hart gained a 1st Class Honours Degree in Chemistry from the University of Oxford, followed by an MSc in Artificial Intelligence from the University of Edinburgh. Her PhD, also from the University of Edinburgh, explored the use of immunology as an inspiration for computing, examining a range of techniques applied to optimisation and data classification problems.
She moved to Edinburgh Napier University in 2000 as a lecturer, and was promoted to a Chair in 2008 in Natural Computation. She is active world-wide in the field of Evolutionary Computation, for example as General Chair of PPSN 2016, and as a Track Chair at GECCO for several years. She has given keynotes at EURO 2016 and UKCI 2015, as well as invited talks and tutorials at many Universities and international conferences. She is Editor-in-Chief of Evolutionary Computation (MIT Press) from January 2016 and an elected member of the ACM SIGEVO Executive Board. She is also a member of the UK Operations Research Society Research Panel.

Prof. Gary G. Yen (S’87-M’88-SM’97-F’09) received a Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Notre Dame in 1992. Currently he is a Regents Professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Oklahoma State University (OSU). Before joined OSU in 1997, he was with the Structure Control Division, U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory in Albuquerque. His research interest includes intelligent control, computational intelligence, conditional health monitoring, signal processing and their industrial/defense applications.
Dr. Yen was an associate editor of the IEEE Control Systems Magazine, IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology , Automatica , Mechantronics, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Parts A and B and IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks. He is currently serving as an associate editor for the IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation and the IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics. He served as the General Chair for the 2003 IEEE International Symposium on Intelligent Control held in Houston, TX and 2006 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence held in Vancouver, Canada. Dr. Yen served as Vice President for the Technical Activities in 2005- 2006 and then President in 2010-2011 of the IEEE Computational intelligence Society. He was the founding editor-in-chief of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine, 2006-2009. In 2011, he received Andrew P Sage Best Transactions Paper award from IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics Society and in 2014, he received Meritorious Service award from IEEE Computational Intelligence Society.