Nadia Nedjah graduated in 1987 in systems engineering and computation and in 1990 obtained an M.Sc., also in systems engineering and computation, form the University of Annaba, Algeria. Since 1997, she has held a Ph.D. from the University of Manchester—Institute of Science and Technology, UK. She joined the Department of Electronics Engineering and Telecommunications of the Engineering Faculty of the State University of Rio de Janeiro as an Associate Professor. Between 2009 and 2013, she was the head of the Intelligent System research area in the Electronics Engineering Post-graduate Program of the State University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She is the founder and the editor-in-chief of the International Journal of High Performance System Architecture and of Innovative Computing Applications, both published by Inderscience, UK. She published three authored books on functional and re-writing languages, hardware/software co-design for systems acceleration, and hardware for soft computing vs. soft computing for hardware. She (co)-guest edited more than 20 special issues for high-impact journals and more than 45 organized books on computational intelligence-related topics, such as evolvable machines; genetic systems programming; evolutionary machine design, methodologies, and applications; and real-world multi-objective systems engineering. She has authored more than 120 journal papers and more than 200 conference papers. She is the associate editor of more than 10 journals.