Organizing Committee

•General Co-Chair Gui DeSouza University of Missouri Columbia, Missouri, USA		•General Co-Chair Gary Yen Oklahoma State University Stillwater, Oklahoma, USA
	•Finance Chair Sanaz Mostaghim Otto von Guericke University of Magdeburg Germany
•Program Chair Derek Anderson University of Missouri Columbia, Missouri, USA		•Program Chair João Sousa Instituto Superior Técnico Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
•Technical Chair Ponnuthurai Nagaratnam Suganthan  Nanyang Technological University Singapore	•Technical Chair Dipti Srinivasan National University of Singapore Singapore	•Technical Chair Jialin Liu Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) China
•Technical Chair Leandro Minku University of Birmingham UK	•Technical Chair Hisao Ishibuchi Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) China	•Technical Chair Hemant Singh The University of New South Wales Canberra, Australia
	•Diversity and Inclusion Chair Keeley Crockett Manchester Metropolitan University UK
•Publication Chair Rui Jorge de Almeida Maastricht University Netherlands		•Publication Chair Joao Paulo Carvalho Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa Portugal
	•Plenary Session Chair Timothy C. Havens Michigan Technological University USA
•Tutorial Chair Mengjie Zhang Victoria University of Wellington Wellington, New Zealand		•Tutorial Chair Sansanee Auephanwiriyakul Chiang Mai University Thailand
	•Panel Chair Bing Xue Victoria University of Wellington Wellington, New Zealand
•Workshop Chair Annabel Latham  Manchester Metropolitan University UK		•Workshop Chair Chang-Shing Lee National University of Tainan Taiwan
	•Conflict of Interest Chair Anna Wilbik Maastricht University Netherlands
•Advisory Chair Jim Keller University of Missouri USA		•Advisory Chair Hussein Abbass UNSW Sydney Australia
	•Competition Chair Alexander Dockhorn Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz University Hanover, Germany
•Industry Relations Chair Xavier Llorà Google LLC Sunnyvale, CA		•Industry Relations Chair Catherine Huang Google LLC Portland, OR
•Special Sessions Chair Sheridan K. Houghten Brock University St. Catharines Ontario, Canada		•Poster Sessions Chair Mihail Popescu University of Missouri Columbia, Missouri, USA
	•Award Chair Dongbin Zhao University of Chinese Academy of Sciences China
	•Student Activities Chair TBD
•Publicity Chair Carlos Coello Coello CINVESTAV-IPN Mexico		•Publicity Chair Zhenan He Sichuan University China