Prof. Sergio Cruces received his Graduate and Ph.D. degrees in Telecommunications Engineering from the University of Vigo (Spain), in 1994 and 1999, respectively. He is currently a Professor in the Department of Signal Theory and Communications, University of Seville (Spain), a senior member of IEEE, and a member of the societies of SMCS, CIS, SPS, and ITS. His research interests include statistical signal processing, information theory, and machine learning. In 2015, he received the Best Paper award from the journal Entropy. Dr. Cruces has served as an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (2012-2015) and of IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics (2015-2020) and as a member of the technical program committee for over forty international conferences.