Jose M. Lanza-Gutierrez was born in Zafra (Spain) in 1986. He received the B.S and M.S degrees in Computer Science from the University of Extremadura, Caceres, Spain, in 2008 and 2009 respectively. In 2010, he obtained the master’s degree in grid computing and parallelism at the same University. In 2015, he received the Pd.D. decree in Computer Science from the University of Extremadura under the guiadance of Prof. Dr. Juan A. Gomez-Pulido. He is currently working at Centro de Electronica Industrical, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain. He has authored or co-authored more than 30 publications, including 10 Journal Citation Report (JCR) papers in journals, such as Applied Soft Computing, Expert Systems with Application, BMC Bioinformatics, Soft Computing, Reliability Engineering and System Safety, and Journal of Heuristics. His main research interests include singleobjective optimization, multiobjective optimization, wireless sensor networks, parallel computing, and machine learning.