Seminar by Prof Carlos Artemio Coello Coello, CINVESTAV-IPN, Mexico, 01 Nov 2024, ABN Conference Room 1-1

Title: What is Missing in Evolutionary Optimization?

Date: 01^st November, 2024

Time: 2.00 PM To 3.00 PM

Venue: ABN Conference Room 1-1

Presenter: Professor Carlos Artemio Coello Coello

Abstract: In this talk, Professor Carlos Coello provides some thoughts about his view of a field he has worked in for almost 30 years. Besides mentioning some relevant research topics related to both single- and multi-objective optimization that are worth exploring in the next few years (e.g., dynamic problems, high dimensionality, expensive objective functions, etc.), he will provide a more general view of the field, sharing his views about the sort of research work which he believes that is needed today so that we can start switching from producing to understanding.

Biography: Carlos Artemio Coello Coello received a PhD in Computer Science from Tulane University (USA) in 1996. His research has mainly focused on the design of new multi-objective optimization algorithms based on bio-inspired metaheuristics (e.g., evolutionary algorithms), which is an area in which he has made pioneering contributions. He currently has more than 590 publications, including more than 200 journal papers and 50 book chapters. His publications currently report 75,632 citations in Google Scholar. According to Scopus, Dr. Coello has 30,586 citations, excluding self-citations and citations from all his co-authors. His h-index is 104, according to Google Scholar, 75, according to Scopus, and 67, according to Clarivate Analytics (known before as ISI Web of Science). In the ShanghaiRanking’s Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2016 developed by Elsevier, he appears as one of the 300 most highly cited scientists in the world in “Computer Science”, occupying the first place in Mexico.

He has received several awards, including the National Research Award (in 2007) from the Mexican Academy of Science (in the area of exact sciences) and the 2012 National Medal of Science in Physics, Mathematics and Natural Sciences from Mexico's presidency (this is the most important award that a scientist can receive in Mexico). Additionally, he is the recipient of the 2013 IEEE Kiyo Tomiyasu Award, of the 2016 The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) Award in “Engineering Sciences”, and of the 2021 IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Evolutionary Computation Pioneer Award. Since January 2011, he is an IEEE Fellow. He is currently the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation.

He is a Full Professor with distinction at the Computer  Science Department of CINVESTAV-IPN in Mexico City, Mexico.