Keynote Speakers

We are delighted to announce that Professor Carlos M. Fonseca will be our first keynote speaker.

Pr. Carlos M. Fonseca, University of Coimbra, Portugal

Carlos M. Fonseca is an Associate Professor in the Department of Informatics Engineering of the University of Coimbra, Portugal, and a member of the Adaptive Computation Group of CISUC, the Centre for Informatics and Systems of the University of Coimbra. He obtained his doctoral degree from the University of Sheffield, U.K., where he also conducted postdoctoral research. His main research interests are in multiobjective optimisation, evolutionary computation, experimental evaluation of optimisation algorithms, and practical applications of optimisation. His current focus is on preference articulation in multiobjective optimisation and on the computational modelling of optimisation problems. Since October 2023, he has served as Action Chair and Grant Holder Scientific Representative of COST Action Randomised Optimisation Algorithms Research Network (ROAR-NET), a European research and innovation network aimed at making randomised optimisation algorithms widely competitive in practice by identifying and reducing obstacles to their adoption at the scientific, technical, economic, and human levels.