Professor André L. V. Coelho earned the B.Sc. degree in Computer Engineering (1996), and the M.Sc. (1998) and Ph.D. (2004) degrees in Electrical Engineering, all from the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP), SP, Brazil. Currently, he is a Full Professor affiliated with the Graduate Program in Applied Informatics at the University of Fortaleza (UNIFOR), Ceará, Brazil. He has published extensively in prestigious conferences and journals on the themes of machine learning, pattern recognition, computational intelligence, bio-inspired computing, and optimization. He has advised or co-advised several graduate students on the aforementioned lines of research, served as ad-hoc reviewer for a number of renowned scientific periodicals (such as IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, Knowledge and Information Systems, Pattern Analysis and Applications, Pattern Recognition, Neurocomputing, Neural Computing and Applications, Decision Support Systems, and Information Fusion) and as program committee member and reviewer for several conferences. Moreover, he has coordinated or participated in publicly-funded research projects. From 2010 to 2019, he holded a Research Productivity Scholarship, Level 2, from CNPq (Brazilian Council for Scientific and Technological Development). In 2015-2016, he was a visiting researcher at Monash University, Australia.