Sebastián Ventura is currently a Full Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Numerical Analysis at the University of Córdoba, where he heads the Knowledge Discovery and Intelligent Systems Research Laboratory. He received his B.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in sciences from the University of Córdoba, Spain, in 1989 and 1996, respectively. He has published more than 300 papers in journals and scientific conferences, as well as 3 books in their areas of expertise. Furthermore, he has edited about ten books and several special issues in international journals. Dr Ventura has also been the coordinator of about ten research projects supported by the Spanish and Andalusian governments and the European Union. His main research interests are in the fields of soft computing, machine learning, data mining, and their applications. Dr Ventura is a senior member of the IEEE Computer, the IEEE Computational Intelligence and the IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics Societies, as well as the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM).