Efrén Mezura-Montes is the Head of the Artificial Intelligence Research Institute, University of Veracruz, Mexico. His research interests are designing, analyzing, and applying bio-inspired algorithms to solve complex optimization problems. Dr. Mezura-Montes is a member of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society's Evolutionary Computation Technical Committee and the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society's Soft Computing Technical Committee. Dr. Mezura-Montes is a regular member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences (AMC) and the Mexican Computing Academy (AMEXCOMP), President of the Mexican Computer Science Society (SMCC), and also a member of the Technical Committee of the Mexican Collaboration Network on Applied Computational Intelligence.