Prof. Dr. Enrique Alba’s brief CV

Dr. Enrique Alba is a Full Professor of Computer Science at the University of Málaga, Spain. He got his Ph.D. degree on designing and analyzing parallel and distributed genetic algorithms. His current research interests involve the design and application of evolutionary algorithms, neural networks, and other bio-inspired systems to real problems including telecommunications, combinatorial optimization, and bioinformatics. The main focus of all his work is on parallelism.

Part of his ongoing research lies in the fields of ad hoc metropolitan network optimization, optimal design of GSM networks, logistics, vehicle routing, natural language tagging, software engineering, DNA fragment assembly, gene microarrays, cutting/packing, software testing and validation, and in general combinatorial problems lying in the base of real world problems.

New fields like multiobjective techniques, grid/P2P/Internet/GPU platforms, dynamic optimization of problems whose definition change in time, and heterogeneous algorithms are dealt with as part both of basic and applied research.

As to the techniques, Dr. Alba and his group are dealing mainly with metaheuristics, either bio-inspired or not, and also hybridization with other (maybe exact) methods. In concrete, genetic algorithms, particle swarm, ant colonies, simulated annealing, branch and bound, and related solvers are used.

Dr. Alba has published four books on metaheuristics and bio-inspired techniques, more than 30 papers in impact journals, and more than 100 conference papers. He has coordinated several national and international research projects in the past. Some of the active projects are M*, DIRICOM, OPLINK, INRIA-PERFOM, and an European CELTIC project (CARLINK). Dr. Alba holds collaborations (join publications, visits and exchanges) with more than 20 international universities and labs, and his research in Málaga is also provoking industrial transferences to several companies.

Finally, Dr. Alba works in the program committee of well known important conferences in several fields, like GECCO, IEEE CEC, PPSN, EvoCOP, IPDPS and many more, as well has he organizes international events like NIDISC or IEEE/ACM MSWiM. He also works as reviewer for IEE Transactions (on EC, PDS, Education, SMC), JPDC, PARCO, Journal of Heuristics, JMMA, EJOR, Computer Communications, etc. Besides, Dr. Alba works in the editorial board of several international journals related to optimization, telecommunications and parallel systems.