Nasimul Noman Editor & Author

Hitoshi Iba received his Ph.D. degree from The University of Tokyo, Japan, in 1990. From 1990 to 1998, he was with the Electro Technical Laboratory in Ibaraki, Japan. Since 1998, he has been with The University of Tokyo, where he is currently a professor in the Graduate School of Information Science and Technology. His research interests include evolutionary computation, artificial life, artificial intelligence, and robotics. He is an associate editor of the Journal of Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines (GPEM). Dr. Iba is also is an underwater naturalist and experienced Professional Association of Diving Instructors (PADI) divemaster, having completed more than a thousand dives.

Nasimul Noman received his Ph.D. degree from The University of Tokyo, Japan, in 2007. He was a faculty member in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh, from 2002 to 2012. In 2013, he joined the School of Electrical Engineering and Computing at The University of Newcastle, Australia, and currently he is working as a senior lecturer there. His research interests include evolutionary computation, computational biology, bioinformatics, and machine learning.