Carlos-Alberto Cobos-Lozada received a B.S. degree in systems engineering and an M.S. degree in computer science from Universidad Industrial de Santander (Bucaramanga, Colombia) in 1995 and 2004, respectively, and a Ph.D. degree in systems and computer engineering from Universidad Nacional de Colombia sede Bogotá in 2014. From 1995 to 1999, he was a Lecturer at the Universidad Industrial de Santander. Subsequently, he has served as a Full/Titular Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the Universidad del Cauca (Popayán, Colombia), where he has guided several courses in undergraduate and graduate programs and participated in or directed several research projects with national and international funding. He is the director of the Information Technology Research Group (GTI) at the Universidad del Cauca. His research interests include data science, computational intelligence, deep learning, machine learning, natural language processing, information retrieval, and text mining. He is classified as a Senior Researcher in the National System of Researchers, Colombia.