Prof. Jose A. Lozano received his M.Sc. degrees in Mathematics (1991) and Computer Science (1992), and his Ph.D. in Computer Science (1998) (Best Engineering Thesis Award) from the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU). He is Full Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence at UPV/EHU and leads the Intelligent Systems Group. Since 2019 he has served as the Scientific Director of the Basque Center for Applied Mathematics (BCAM). He was named IEEE Fellow in 2021. He has published more than 180 ISI-indexed journal articles, several of them highly cited, and has contributed influential books, edited volumes and special issues in machine learning, evolutionary computation and probabilistic modelling.

His research interests include combinatorial optimization, machine learning, probabilistic graphical models, time-series analysis and applications in fields such as medicine, biology and ecology. He has supervised over 30 PhD theses, many recognized with national and international awards, and has received distinctions such as the Basque Country Research Award (2024) and several best paper awards.

Prof. Lozano has held leading roles in the organization of major conferences, including serving as General Chair of IEEE CEC 2017 and ECML-PKDD 2021, and Program Chair of GECCO 2020. He has served on editorial boards of journals such as IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, Evolutionary Computation and ACM Transactions on Evolutionary Learning and Optimization.

Prof. Yew-Soon Ong is currently an Endowed Yidan Professor in Artificial Intelligence at the College of Computing & Data Science, Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore, Distinguished AI Fellow (Joint Appointment) of the Singapore's Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Professor (Joint Appointment) of the National Institute of Education, Singapore. He was President's Chair Professor in Computer Science at the College of Computing & Data Science (2019-2026), Chief Artificial Intelligence Scientist of A*STAR (2019-2026), Chair of the School of Computer Science and Engineering, Nanyang Technological University (2016-2019), Director of the Singtel-NTU Cognitive & Artificial Intelligence Joint Lab (SCALE@NTU) (2017-2025), Director of Data Science and AI Research Centre (2017-2020), Director of the Centre for Computational Intelligence/Computational Intelligence Laboratory (2008-2015) and Programme Principal Investigator of the Data Analytics & Complex System Programme in the Rolls-Royce@NTU Corporate Lab (2013-2017).

He received his Bachelor's and Master's degrees from Nanyang Technological University and subsequently his PhD on Artificial Intelligence in Complex Engineering Design from the University of Southampton, United Kingdom. He is a Fellow of IEEE, Fellow of the Singapore national academy of engineering, founding Editor-In-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence, founding Technical Editor-In-Chief of Memetic Computing Journal (Springer), Senior Editor of IEEE Transactions on Neural Network & Learning Systems, Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence, and chief co-editor of Book Series on Studies in Adaptation, Learning, and Optimization.

He has received five IEEE outstanding paper awards and was listed as a Thomson Reuters highly cited researcher and among the World's Most Influential Scientific Minds. He has published over 300 referred papers at ICML, ICLR, NeurIPS, IJCAI, AAAI, CVPR, KDD, WWW, AAMAS and ACM/IEEE Transactions. In AI, he has been a keynote speaker or senior area chair or area chair of AAAI, IJCAI, ICLR, ICML, NeurIPS, KDD, ICONIP and others.

Dr. Bernhard Sendhoff (Fellow, IEEE) received the Ph.D. degree in applied physics from Ruhr-Universitat Bochum, Bochum, Germany, in 1998. He was with Honda Research Institute Europe GmbH, Offenbach, Germany, as a Chief Technology Officer from 2003 to 2010 and President from 2011 to 2017. He has been an Operating Officer with Honda Research and Development Ltd., Tokyo, Japan, since 2017, and CEO of the Global Network Honda Research Institutes since 2019. He is an Honorary Professor with the Technical University of Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany. He has authored or coauthored more than 180 scientific publications. He is a Senior Member of ACM and Member of SAE.

Prof. Gary G. Yen is a Chair Professor at Sichuan University, and formerly held an Endowed Chair at Oklahoma State University. He received his Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Notre Dame in 1992. He was a Regents Professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Oklahoma State University. He recently joined Sichuan University, College of Computer Science as a Chair Professor.

His research interests include intelligent control, computational intelligence, evolutionary multiobjective optimization, conditional health monitoring, signal processing, and their industrial/defense applications. Gary was an associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics on Computational Intelligence, and IEEE Control Systems Magazine during 1994-1999, and of the IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics (Parts A and B) and IFAC Journal on Automatica and Mechatronics during 2000-2010. He currently serves as an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics and IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence, and will serve as the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation (TEVC) from 2027 onward.

He served as Vice President for the Technical Activities, IEEE Computational Intelligence Society in 2004-2005 and was the founding editor-in-chief of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine, 2006-2009. He was elected to serve as the President of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society in 2010-2011 and is elected as a Distinguished Lecturer for the term 2012-2014, 2016-2018, 2021-2023, and 2025-2027. He received Regents Distinguished Research Award from OSU in 2009, 2011 Andrew P Sage Best Transactions Paper award from IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics Society, 2013 Meritorious Service award from IEEE Computational Intelligence Society and 2014 Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Excellence Teaching award. He is a Fellow of IEEE, IET and IAPR.