Specialties: bio-inspired systems, hybrid system and combination of evolutionary algorithms and neural networks

Pedro A. Castillo is an  Professor at the Department of Computer Architecture and Technology of the University of Granada (Spain). He received a B.Sc. degree in Computer Science in 1997 and his Ph.D. degree in 2000 from the University of Granada. He has been visiting researcher at the Napier University (July, 1998) and at the Santa Fe Institute (September, 2000).

He has participated in several international projects and has been leader of several national and regional research projects, as well as activities of knowledge-transfer with companies. He has published over 30 papers in international journals, and more than 150 publications in international and national congresses, several book chapters, as well as other publications, and has directed four PhDs.

His main research interests are in the fields of bio-inspired systems, hybrid system and combination of evolutionary algorithms and neural networks.

He is also editor for the “Journal of Systems Architecture, Embedded Software Design” and has also been involved in the organization of all CEDI conferences (http://cedi.ugr.es), several PPSN, EvoStar, IEEE-CIG, YAPC::EU and IWANN.

He has led the GeNeura research group during two years, and currently he is scientific representative of the UNESCO UniTwin Complex Systems Digital Campus at the University of Granada and Director for Research Policy at the Vice-Rectorate for Research and Transfer of the University of Granada.