Carlos A. Coello Coello (Fellow, IEEE) received the Ph.D. degree in computer science from Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, USA, in 1996. He is currently a Professor with Distinction (CINVESTAV-3F Researcher), Computer Science Department, CINVESTAV-IPN, Mexico City, Mexico. He has authored and coauthored over 450 technical papers and book chapters. He has also coauthored the book Evolutionary Algorithms for Solving Multiobjective Problems (2nd ed., Springer, 2007). His publications currently report over 44 800 citations in Google Scholar (his H-index is 83). His major research interests are evolutionary multiobjective optimization and constraint-handling techniques for evolutionary algorithms. Prof. Coello Coello received the 2007 National Research Award from the Mexican Academy of Sciences in the area of Exact Sciences, the Medal to the Scientific Merit 2009, granted by Mexico City’s congress, and the National Medal of Science and Arts in the area of Physical, Mathematical and Natural Sciences. He is currently an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation and serves in the editorial board of several other international journals. He is a member of ACM, Sigma Xi, and the Mexican Academy of Science.
