Editorial Board Member

Michael N. Vrahatis is a professor at the Department of Mathematics, University of Patras, Greece. He is founder of the Computational Intelligence Laboratory of the same department which he has been directing since its beginning in 2004. He has been teaching at the undergraduate level for 35 years. Also, he has been teaching distance learning classes at the Hellenic Open University for 19 years. In addition, he has a teaching experience of 27 years at the post graduate level. Several of his doctoral and/or postdoctoral students serve as full professors, associate professors, assistant professors or lecturers in Greece and abroad. He has served as an experienced reviewer and evaluator of several proposals for research funding organizations and centers of excellence, including, among others, ERC (EU), ESF (EU), FWF (Austria), GSRT (Greece), HFRI (Greece), IAP (Belgium), MITACS (Canada) and NSF (USA). He has participated in the organization of over 300 conferences serving at several positions, and participated in 247 conferences, congresses and advanced schools as active participant, speaker or keynote speaker. He has served as a reviewer for 73 international scientific journals and 7 books. His editorial activities include work for 21 international scientific journals and journal special issues.

Numerical mathematics, Natural computing, Computational intelligence, Global optimization, Reliable computing, Imprecise data, Artificial neural networks, Machine learning