Kyung-Soo Kim was born in Incheon, Korea, in 1988. He received a B.E. degree in Computer Education from Mokpo National University, Jeonnam, Korea, in February 2011, and a Ph.D. degree in Electronics and Computer Engineering from Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea, in August 2020. He was a postdoctoral researcher at the Center for Computational Social Science, Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea, from September 2020 to February 2022. Since March 2022, he has worked as an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Engineering at Kumoh National Institute of Technology, Gumi, Gyeongbuk, Korea. His research interests include optimization algorithms for machine learning, meta learning, evolutionary computation, nonlinear optimization algorithms, and computational intelligence theory.