Yourim Yoon received a B.E. in computer engineering and a Ph.D. in computer science and engineering from Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea, in 2003 and 2012, respectively. From March 2012 to February 2014, she was a senior research engineer at Future IT R&D Lab. in LG Electronics, Seoul, Republic of Korea. Since March 2014, she has been an associate professor at the Department of Computer Engineering, College of Information Technology, Gachon University, Gyeonggi-do, Republic of Korea. Her research interests include optimization theory, machine learning, combinatorial optimization, evolutionary computation, discrete mathematics, operations research, energy management, and sensor networks. She served as an editor for the journal Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society and as a reviewer for BIC-TA 2007, BMIC 2011, IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, Applied Mathematics and Computation, Engineering Optimization, and TIIS journals.