Academic Duties

• Chair, Task Force on Hyper-heuristics, IEEE Computational Intelligence Society
• Member, IEEE Intelligent Systems Applications Technical Committee (ISATC), IEEE Computational Intelligence Society
• Member, Task Force on Automated Algorithm Design, Configuration and Selection (AADCS), IEEE Computational Intelligence Society
• Member, Task Force on Evolutionary Scheduling and Combinatorial Optimisation (ESCO), IEEE Computational Intelligence Society
• Member, COnfiguration and SElection of ALgorithms (COSEAL) Group

Reviewer

Journals

• IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation
• Evolutionary Computation (MIT)
• IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine
• INFORMS Journal on Computing
• Applied Soft Computing (Elsevier)
• Artificial Intelligence Review (Springer)
• European Journal of Operational Research (Elsevier)
• Expert Systems with Applications (Elsevier)
• Information Sciences (Elsevier)
• Computer & Operations Research (Elsevier)
• Journal of Heuristics (Springer)
• Memetic Computing (Springer)
• Evolving Systems (Springer),
• Journal of Scheduling (Springer)
• Annals of Operations Research (Springer)
• Swarm and Evolutionary Computation (Elsevier)
• Journal of the Operational Research Society (Springer)
• Soft Computing (Springer)
• International Transactions in Operational Research (Wiley)
• Frontiers of Information Technology & Electronic Engineering (Springer)
• Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation (Elsevier)
• Automation in Construction (Elsevier)
• International Journal of Metaheuristics (InderScience)
• International Journal of Innovative Computing and Applications (InderScience)
• International Journal of Bio-Inspired Computation (InderScience)
• Journal of Information Technology Research (IGI Global)
• Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences (TUBITAK)
• IEEE Access (IEEE)
• Algorithms (MDPI)
• Applied Sciences (MDPI)
• Big Data and Cognitive Computing (MDPI)
• Bioengineering (MDPI)
• Electronics (MDPI)
• Life (MDPI)
• Computer Communication & Collaboration (BAP)
• Journal of Applied Operational Research (Tadbir)

Conferences

• 27th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI), 2024
• 24th Annual Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation (GECCO), 2024
• 2nd IEEE Conference on Artificial Intelligence (CAI), 2024
• 18th Parallel Problem Solving from Nature (PPSN), 2024
• 23th IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC), 2024
• International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN), 2024
• 14th International Conference on the Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling (PATAT), 2024
• 7th International Conference on Data Science and Information Technology (DSIT), 2024
• 36th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2022
• 17th Parallel Problem Solving from Nature (PPSN), 2022
• 14th International Conference on Evolutionary Computation Theory and Applications (ECTA), 2022
• 13th International Conference on the Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling (PATAT), 2022
• 7th International Conference on Machine Learning, Optimization and Data Science (LOD), 2021
• 13th International Conference on Evolutionary Computation Theory and Applications (ECTA), 2021
• 21st Annual Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation (GECCO), 2021
• 20th IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC), RepL4Opt: Representation Learning meets Meta-heuristic Optimization, 2021
• 35th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2021
• 34th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2020
• 30th International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS), 2020
• 21st Annual Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation (GECCO), 2020
• 2nd International Conference on Advances in Signal Processing and Artificial Intelligence (ASPAI), 2020
• 6th International Conference on Machine Learning, Optimization and Data Science (LOD), 2020
• 16th Parallel Problem Solving from Nature (PPSN), 2020
• 12th International Conference on Evolutionary Computation Theory and Applications (ECTA), 2020
• 33rd AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2019
• 20th Annual Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation (GECCO), 2019
• IEEE Symposium on Evolutionary Scheduling and Combinatorial Optimisation (ESCO), under the IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI), 2019
• 18th IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC), 2019
• 1st International Conference on Advances in Signal Processing and Artificial Intelligence (ASPAI), 2019
• 11th International Conference on Evolutionary Computation Theory and Applications (ECTA) / 11th International Joint Conference on Computational Intelligence (IJCCI), 2019
• 9th IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI), 2018
• 10th International Joint Conference on Computational Intelligence (IJCCI), 2018
• 19th Annual Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation (GECCO), 2018
• 17th IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC), 2018
• 2nd International Conference on Computer Science and Application Engineering (CSAE), 2018
• 4th International Conference on Fuzzy Systems and Data Mining (FSDM), 2018
• 12th International Conference on the Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling (PATAT), 2018
• 8th IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI), 2017
• 19th Annual Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation (GECCO), 2017
• 16th IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC), 2017
• 25th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), 2016
• 18th Annual Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation (GECCO), 2016
• 10th Learning and Intelligent Optimization Conference (LION), 2016
• 15th IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC), 2016
• 17th Annual Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation (GECCO), 2015
• 28th Canadian Artificial Intelligence Conference (AI), 2015
• 16th Annual Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation (GECCO), 2014
• 8th Learning and Intelligent Optimization Conference (LION), 2014
• 6th Multidisciplinary International Scheduling Conference: Theory & Applications (MISTA), 2013
• 15th Annual Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation (GECCO), 2013
• 14th Annual Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation (GECCO), 2012

Programme Chair

Conferences

• 6th International Conference on Information Science and Cloud Computing (ISCC), 2018
• 8th International Conference on Computer Engineering and NEtworks (CENet), 2018
• 7th International Conference on Computer Engineering and NEtworks (CENet), 2017

Programme Committee Member

Conferences

• 27th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI), 2024
• 24th Annual Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation (GECCO), 2024
• 18th Parallel Problem Solving from Nature (PPSN), 2024
• 23th IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC), 2024
• International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN), 2024
• 16th International Conference on Evolutionary Computation Theory and Applications (ECTA), 2024
• 14th International Conference on the Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling (PATAT), 2024
• 7th International Conference on Data Science and Information Technology (DSIT), 2024
• 13th International Conference on Evolutionary Computation Theory and Applications (ECTA), 2023
• 36th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2022
• 17th Parallel Problem Solving from Nature (PPSN), 2022
• 14th International Conference on Evolutionary Computation Theory and Applications (ECTA), 2022
• 7th International Conference on Machine Learning, Optimization and Data Science (LOD), 2021
• 13th International Conference on Evolutionary Computation Theory and Applications (ECTA), 2021
• 21st Annual Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation (GECCO), 2021
• 20th IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC), RepL4Opt: Representation Learning meets Meta-heuristic Optimization, 2021
• 35th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2021
• 34th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2020
• 21st Annual Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation (GECCO), 2020
• 2nd International Conference on Advances in Signal Processing and Artificial Intelligence (ASPAI), 2020
• 6th International Conference on Machine Learning, Optimization and Data Science (LOD), 2020
• 16th Parallel Problem Solving from Nature (PPSN), 2020
• 12th International Conference on Evolutionary Computation Theory and Applications (ECTA), 2020
• 33rd AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2019
• 20th Annual Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation (GECCO), 2019
• IEEE Symposium on Evolutionary Scheduling and Combinatorial Optimisation (ESCO), under the IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI), 2019
• 1st International Conference on Advances in Signal Processing and Artificial Intelligence (ASPAI), 2019
• 11th International Conference on Evolutionary Computation Theory and Applications (ECTA) / 11th International Joint Conference on Computational Intelligence (IJCCI), 2019
• 10th International Joint Conference on Computational Intelligence (IJCCI), 2018
• 20th Annual Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation (GECCO), 2018
• 12th International Conference on the Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling (PATAT), 2018
• 19th Annual Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation (GECCO), 2017
• 9th International Joint Conference on Computational Intelligence (IJCCI), 2017
• 3rd IEEE International Conference on Cybernetics (CYBCONF) - Special session on Deep Learning for Prediction and Estimation (DLPE), 2017
• 25th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), 2016
• 18th Annual Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation (GECCO), 2016
• 17th Annual Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation (GECCO), 2015
• 16th Annual Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation (GECCO), 2014
• 15th Annual Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation (GECCO), 2013
• 14th Annual Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation (GECCO), 2012