Prof. Wolfgang Banzhaf (Canada )
Professor from The Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada. Current Editor-in-Chief of Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines (Kluwer), and associate editor of Applied Soft Computing (Elsevier). Research interests include Evolvable Machines, Genetic Programming, Evolvable Machines, Artificial Life, Complex Systems, Self-organization, etc.
More: http://web.cs.mun.ca/~banzhaf/

Prof. Guoliang Chen (P. R. China)
Professor from University of Science and Technology of China, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Research interests include Parallel Computing, High Performance Computation and Computation Intelligence. He has won the second grade of National Natural Science Award of China, ministerial, provincial and Chinese Academy of Science level Science & Technology progress award fourteen times. He has published 7 books and more than 100 papers in related areas. He also translated 5 books, participated in editing 5 dictionaries or vocabularies about computer, published 8 computer textbooks as edit-in-chief or examiner-in-chief.

Prof. David Corne (UK)
Professor from The University of Exeter, UK. Research interests include Theory of Evolutionary Computation and Applications in Multi-objective Approaches, Bioinformatics, Creativity, Scheduling, Data Mining, Forecasting, Timetabling, Telecommunications, etc. Founding Co-Editor of the Journal of Scheduling (now on Editorial Board). associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, and editorial board member of Applied Soft Computing (Elsevier) , editorial board member of International Journal of Systems Science (Taylor and Francis).
More: http://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/~dwcorne/

Prof. Aike Guo (P. R. China)
Prof. Aike Guo is an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Dr. Guo's current research interest is to understand the molecular, cellular, and integrative mechanisms underlying learning, memory and cognition-like behaviour,e.g., decision-making and selective attention in Drosophila.
More: http://www.ion.ac.cn/labs/llm.htm

Prof. Li-Cheng Jiao (P. R. China)
Professor from Xidian University. Standing director of Chinese Association of Artificial Intelligence, director of Chinese Institute of Electronics, committeeman of Chinese Committee of Neural Networks, and member of Academic Degrees Committee of the State Council. Research interests include Evolutionary Computation, Artificial Immune Systems and Intelligent Information Processing. He has published several books and more than 100 papers in international and internal magazines of these areas.

Dr. Roy Johnston (UK)
Reader in Computational Chemistry at the University of Birmingham. Research interests include the application of Genetic Algorithms, Ant Colony Optimization, Artificial Neural Networks and Artificial Immune Systems to optimization problems in chemistry (e.g. geometry optimization of nanoparticle structures, protein folding, structure solution from powder diffraction data). Editor of "Applications of Evolutionary Computation in Chemistry" (Structure & Bonding, Volume 110, Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg, 2004).
More: http://www.tc.bham.ac.uk/~roy/

Prof. LiShan Kang (P.R.China)
Professor from The State Key Laboratory of Software Engineering, Wunan University. Research interests include Parallel Computation, Evolutionary Computation and Automatic Programming. Current editorial board member of "Neural, Parallel & Scientific Computations", "Parallel Algorithms and Applications". He has won severl prizes at national, ministry or provincial level, published 7 books and more than 200 papers in these areas.
More: http://www.sklse.whu.edu.cn/myweb0/group/cgi/personal_homepage/Kang.htm

Dr. Katsunori Shimohara (Japan)
Director of the Network Informatics Laboratories, Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute (ATR) International, Kyoto, Japan, and Guest Professor in Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan. Research interests include emergent communications, evolutionary systems, artificial brain and emotion, genome informatics, and econo-/socio-infomatics, human-system interactions.
More:http://www.hip.atr.co.jp/departments/Dept6/katsu_index.html

Prof. Peter Ross (UK)
Professor from The Napier University, UK. Main research interests are in evolutionary computing, in neural nets and in AI generally, especially timetabling and scheduling.
More:http://www.dcs.napier.ac.uk/~peter/