Assoc. Prof.  Gebrail Bekdas

Department of Civil Engineering, Istanbul University-Cerrahpasa, Istanbul, Turkey.

Research Interests: metaheuristic algorithm; structural optimisation; optimum design; machine learning application for civil engineering; control of structures.

Dr.  Eneko Osaba Icedo

Tecnalia Research & Innovation, Astondo Bidea, Biscay, Spain.

Research Interests: quantum optimisation; quantum annealing; bio-inspired algorithms; combinatorial optimisation; travelling salesman problem.

Dr.  Cosmina-Mihaela Rosca

Faculty of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Petroleum-Gas University of Ploiesti, Ploiești, Romania.

Research Interests: machine learning; AI tools; internet of things; computer vision; databases.

Dr.  Ting Tiew On

Stony Brook Institute, Anhui University, Heifei, China.

Research Interests: engineering optimisation; swarm algorithms; evolutionary algorithms; quantum computation; statistical analysis.

Dr.  Su Fong Chien

MIMOS Berhad, MRANTI Park, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Research Interests: conventional optimisation; QUBO; quantum machine learning; resource optimisation in wireless communications; quantum algorithms applications.

Prof.  Nilanjan Dey

Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Techno International New Town, Kolkata, 700156, India.

Research Interests: medical Imaging; biomedical technologies; machine learning; heuristic algorithm applications.

Assoc. Prof.  Adis Alihodžić

Faculty of Science, University of Sarajevo, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Research Interests: computational intelligence; swarm intelligence; machine learning; image processing; computational geometry.

Prof.  Ronny Hartano

Faculty of Technology and Bionics, Rhine-Waal University of Applied Science, Kleve, Germany.

Research Interests: knowledge representation and reasoning; mobile robotics; service robotics; collaborative robots; multi-robot planning; edge computing.

Dr.  Panagiotis E. Mergos

Department of Engineering, City St George’s, University of London, London, UK.

Research Interests: artificial intelligence; metaheuristics; engineering simulation; engineering optimisation; civil engineering structures.

Prof.  João Paulo Papa

Department of Computing, São Paulo State University, Bauru, Brazil.

Research Interests: machine learning; metaheuristics; computer vision; image processing; natural language processing.

Prof.  Xiao-Zhi Gao

School of Computing, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland.

Research Interests: evolutionary computation; fuzzy systems; deep learning; computational swarm intelligence; data mining.

Prof.  Zong Woo Geem

Department of Smart City, Gachon University, Incheon, South Korea.

Research Interests: harmony search; optimisation; computational intelligence; sustainability; music.

Assoc. Prof.  Aziz Ouaarab

Department of Computer Sciences, Faculty of Sciences and Technologies, Cadi Ayyad University, Marrakesh, Morocco.

Research Interests: swarm intelligence; combinatorial optimisation; bio-inspired metaheuristics; machine learning; computational intelligence.

Assist. Prof.  Eva Tuba

• 1. Trinity University, San Antonio, TX, USA.
• 2. Singidunum University, Belgrade, Serbia.

Research Interests: optimisation; artificial intelligence; machine learning; digital image processing; swarm intelligence.

Dr.  Xiaolei Wang

LAB University of Applied Sciences, Lahti, Finland.

Research Interests: optimisation; AI; energy; building automation; healthcare.