Pedro A. Castillo-Valdivieso received the B.Sc. degree in Computer Science and the Ph.D. degree, both from the University of Granada, Spain, in 1997 and 2000. He was a Visiting Researcher at the Napier University, Edinburg, U.K., in July 1998 and at the Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, NM, in September 2000. He has been leader of several local research projects, and directed four PhDs. His main research interests are in the fields of bio-inspired systems, hybrid system and combination of evolutionary algorithms and neural networks. He was a Teaching Assistant at Computer Science Department of the University of Jaén, Spain. He is currently Associate Professor at the Computer Architecture and Technology Department, University of Granada. |