Nedjma Djezzar
University of Biskra, LESIA laboratory University of Toulouse, IRIT - CNRS - UMR5505
Algeria

Nedjma Djezzar was born in Constantine (Algeria) in 1984. She obtained an engineer's degree in computer science (advanced information systems specialty) with honors from Mentouri University (Constantine, Algeria) in 2007, and a Magister degree in computer science (image synthesis and artificial life specialty) with high honors from Biskra University (Biskra, Algeria) in 2010.

Between 2009 and 2011, she was a Teaching Assistant responsible of the computer science module at the department of Languages and translation of the University of Constantine. She is currently an assistant professor at the department of Computer Science of Batna University (Algeria). She is also a Ph.D. student at University of Toulouse Capitole  (France) and University of Biskra (Algeria). She has published her work in top-tier venues in the field of Artificial Life. Her interests cover Artificial Life, Bioinspired Computation, Morphogenetic Engineering, Self-Organizing Networks.

 

Iñaki Fernández Pérez
https://members.loria.fr/IFernandez/
University of Toulouse, IRIT - CNRS - UMR5505
France

Iñaki Fernández Pérez was born in Madrid (Spain) in 1988. He obtained a B.Sc. in computer science (systems specialty) with honors from the Universidad de Valladolid (Valladolid, Spain) in 2011, and a M.Sc. in computer science (artificial intelligence specialty) from the Université de Lorraine (Nancy, France) in 2013, and a Ph.D. in evolutionary swarm robotics from the Université de Lorraine (Nancy, France)  in 2017.

Between 2010 and 2017, he occupied a Software Engineer position in Semantic Web for the French national institute for research in computer science (INRIA), as well as a Teaching Assistant (DCCE), and a Teaching and Research Fellow (ATER) at Univesité de Lorraine. He is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at ReVa team in IRIT lab in Toulouse (France). He has published his work in top-tier venues in the field of swarm robotics  and Evolutionary Computation. His interests cover Evolutionary Swarm Robotics, Artificial Life, Bioinspired Computation and Machine Learning.

Since 2017, Dr. Fernández Pérez is the vice-chair of the Student/Postdoc group at the International Society for Artificial Life. He is an active member of the ALife and Evolutionary Computation community, refereeing for several conferences and journals in these fields, as well as collaborating in the organization of conference and other scientific events.

NourEddine Djedi
University of Biskra, LESIA laboratory
Algeria

NourEddine Djedi was born in Biskra (Algeria) in 1963. He obtained a B.Sc. in computer science (systems specialty) with honors from the USTHB (Algiers, Algeria) in 1986, and a M.Sc. in computer science (Computer Graphics specialty) from the Université Paul Sabatier (Toulouse, France) in 1987, and a Ph.D. in Declarative modeling from the Université Paul Sabatier (Toulouse, France) in1991.

Between 1988 and 1990, he occupied a Teaching and Research Fellow (ATER) at Université Paul Sabatier while being a member of the "Computer Graphics" team at the IRIT laboratory in Toulouse. He teaches computer science at Biskra university since 1992 and currently holds the position of professor.

He has published about 90 refereed journal and conference papers. His research interests include robotics, image synthesis, artificial life and behavioral animation.

He held the position of Deputy Director of Research and the position of President of the University of Biskra from 1994 to 2000, as well as the position of Information Technology Advisor in the Presidency of the Republic of Algeria between 2001 and 2004. In addition, he held the position of director of the LESIA laboratory (Biskra University) between 2007 and 2011.

Yves Duthen
University of Toulouse, IRIT - CNRS - UMR5505
France

Prof. Dr. Yves Duthen is a Research Professor of Artificial Life and Virtual Reality at IRIT lab, University of Toulouse 1-Capitole (France). He received his Ph.D. degree from the University Paul Sabatier in 1983 and the “French Habilitation” degree in 1993 to become full Professor. He has worked in image synthesis during the 1980’s and focused on Behavioral Simulation based on evolutionary mechanism since 1990. He has published
 about 130-refereed journal and conference papers and has directed 15 PhD theses. He has pioneered research in artificial life for building adaptive artificial creatures and focuses now on embedded metabolism and morphogenetic engineering.