Biographical Sketch
I received a Master's degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy, in 1997, and a doctoral degree in Information Technologies from the faculty of Engineering of the Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium, in 2004. Since 1997, I work as an academic researcher in the field of computational intelligence. I am currently with IRIDIA, CoDE, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium, as a research associate of the fund for scientific research F.R.S.-FNRS of Belgium's French Community.
I have co-authored more than 80 peer-reviewed scientific publications in the field of computational intelligence. My papers have been cited more than 500 times in publications monitored by ISI Web of Science and, according to Google Scholar, more than 2000 times in the scientific literature. My h-index is 23.
I am an associate editor for the journal Swarm Intelligence and an area editor for the journal Computers and Industrial Engineering.
I am a co-founder of the series of workshops SLS and, since 2002, I am a member of the organizing committee of the series of conferences ANTS.

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