Heinrich J. Wörtche, received his Diploma (1988) and PhD rer. nat. degree (1994) in nuclear experimental physics from the Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany. He spent 14 years in academic research with the University of Münster, Germany and the University of Groningen, The Netherlands performing R&D projects at leading research facilities including CERN (Geneva), TRIUMF […]

Thomas Bäck (Fellow, IEEE) received the Diploma degree in Computer Science in 1990 and the Ph.D. degree in Computer Science in 1994, both from the University of Dortmund, Germany. He is Professor of Computer Science with the Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS), Leiden University, Netherlands. His research interests include evolutionary computation, machine learning, […]

Niki van Stein is an assistant professor in the Natural Computing Group of LIACS. She received her PhD in Computer Science from Leiden University in 2018. Niki’s research interest are in explainable AI, automated machine learning, global (Bayesian) optimization and neural architecture search. Next to her research, Niki has founded several software solution oriented companies […]