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Dr. Hao Wang

International Conference session/workshop
Dr. Hao Wang co-organized the AABOH (Analysing Algorithmic Behaviour of Optimization Heuristic) workshop within the GECCO ‘21 and‘22 conferences.
Dr. Hao Wang was Proceedings Co-Chair in PPSN XVI.

Prof. Thomas Bäck

International Conference session/workshop
Prof. Thomas Bäck co-chaired and co-organized the 16th International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving from Nature, PPSN XVI, Leiden, The Netherlands, Sep. 5-9, 2020
Prof. Thomas Bäck was program chair of the 12th International Conference on Neural Computation Theory and Applications, NCTA 2020, Nov. 2-4, 2020.

Dr. Shuo Wang

International Conference session/workshop
Dr. Shuo Wang co-organized the third International Workshop on Learning with Imbalanced Domains: Theory and Applications, in conjunction with ECML/PKDD’21, September 13th-17th, 2021. Other organizers include Nuno Moniz from University of Porto, Portugal, Paula Branco from University of Ottawa, Canada, Luis Torgo from Dalhousie University, Canadas, Nathalie Japkowics from American University, USA, and Michal Wozniak from Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland. There were 8 accepted papers out of 11 submissions.

Prof. Xin Yao

International Conference session/workshop
General Co-chair, the 2021 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN’2021), 18-22 July 2021, Shenzhen, China. (held online due to COVID-19)
General Co-chair, the 2020 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI’2020), 19-24 July 2020, Glasgow, UK. (held online due to COVID-19)

Dr. Zhao Xu

International Conference session/workshop
Dr. Zhao Xu, Prof. Thomas Bäck, Dr. Stefan Menzel and Dr. Leandro L. Minku co-organised the Workshop on Mining Complex Patterns from Industrial Data (MCPID), in conjunction with the IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM’19), November 8th, 2019. There were 8 accepted papers and two keynotes. The workshop effectively disseminated the results of the project to the community, and increased its impact in ML/DM/Optimization areas. There were >20 submissions, and >80 authors from more than 10 countries

Dr. Leandro Minku

International Conference session/workshop
Dr. Leandro Minku was a co-organiser of The 7th International Workshop on Realizing Artificial Intelligence Synergies in Software Engineering (RAISE’19), in conjunction with the International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE’19), May 28th, 2019. There were 8 accepted papers and two keynotes.

Dr. Leandro Minku

International Conference session/workshop
Dr. Leandro Minku was a co-organiser of The 7th International Workshop on Realizing Artificial Intelligence Synergies in Software Engineering (RAISE’19), in conjunction with the International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE’19), May 28th, 2019. There were 8 accepted papers and two keynotes.