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has organized several special sessions and workshops related to data preprocessing and evolutionary learning in conferences such as "Hybrid Intelligent Systems", "Intelligent Systems Design and Applications" and "International Joint-Conference of Neural Networks". He has been associated with the international program committees and organizing committees of several regular international conferences including IEEE CEC, ICPR, ICDM, IJCAI, etc. As edited activities, he has co-edited two special issues in international journals and he is an associate editor of "Information Fusion" (Elsevier), "Swarm and Evolutionary Computation" (Elsevier) and "AI Communications" (IOS Press) journals, and he is co-Editor in Chief of the international journal "Progress in Artificial Intelligence" (Springer). He is a co-author of the books entitled "Data Preprocessing in Data Mining" and "Learning from Imbalanced Data Sets" published by Springer. His research interests include data science, data preprocessing, Big Data, evolutionary learning, Deep Learning, metaheuristics and biometrics.

Francisco Herrera (SM'15) received his M.Sc. in Mathematics in 1988 and Ph.D. in Mathematics in 1991, both from the University of Granada, Spain. He is currently a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence at the University of Granada and Director of DaSCI Institute (Andalusian Research Institute in Data Science and Computational Intelligence). He has been the supervisor of 44 Ph.D. students. He has published more than 400 journal papers, receiving more than 66000 citations (Scholar Google, H-index 132). He is co-author of the books "Genetic Fuzzy Systems" (World Scientific, 2001) and "Data Preprocessing in Data Mining" (Springer, 2015), "The 2-tuple Linguistic Model. Computing with Words in Decision Making" (Springer, 2015), "Multilabel Classification. Problem analysis, metrics and techniques" (Springer, 2016), "Multiple Instance Learning. Foundations and Algorithms" (Springer, 2016) and "Learning from Imbalanced Data Sets" (Springer, 2018). He currently acts as Editor in Chief of the international journals "Information Fusion" (Elsevier) and "Progress in Artificial Intelligence (Springer). He acts as editorial member of a dozen of journals.