Prof. Jaume Bacardit

• Since 2022: Co-organiser of the International Workshop on Evolutionary Computation and Explainable AI (ECXAI)
• 2019: Proceedings chair of the International Conference on Artificial Life (ALIFE-2019), Newcastle, upon Tyne, UK.
• 2014: Co-organiser of the Evolutionary Computation for Big Data and Big Learning workshop (ECBDL'14)
• 2011: Co-chair, Bioinformatics, Systems and Synthetic Biology stream of the OR53 conference
• 2011: Workshops co-chair of the GECCO2011 conference
• 2010: Workshops chair of the GECCO2010 conference
• 2010: Co-organiser of the 13th International Workshop on Learning Classifier Systems (IWLCS-2010))
• 2009: Co-organiser of the 12th International Workshop on Learning Classifier Systems (IWLCS-2009))
• 2009: Co-organiser of the Plant Bioinformatics, Systems and Synthetic Biology Summer School that took place in Nottingham from the 27th to the 31st of July, 2009
• 2008: Co-organiser of the 11th International Workshop on Learning Classifier Systems (IWLCS-2008))
• 2007: Co-organiser of the 10th International Workshop on Learning Classifier Systems (IWLCS-2007))

• 2024: Co-editor, special issue on Evolutionary Computation and Explainable AI of the ACM Transactions on Evolutionary Learning and Optimization journal (to appear)
• 2020-2021: Editorial board member for Communications Biology
• 2015-2023: Academic Editor of the PeerJ Computer Science journal
• 2014: Co-chair of the Evolutionary Machine Learning track of the GECCO2014 conference
• 2013: Co-chair of the Genetics-Based Machine Learning track of the GECCO2013 conference
• 2010: Co-editor of an special issue on Metaheuristics for Large-Scale Data Mining of the Memetic Computing journal
• 2010: Co-editor of the book Learning Classifier Systems; Revised Selected Papers of IWLCS2008 and IWLCS2009; Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 6471, Springer
• 2009: Chair of the Genetics-Based Machine Learning track of the GECCO2009 conference
• 2008: Co-editor of the book Learning Classifier Systems; Revised Selected Papers of IWLCS2006 and IWLCS2007; Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 4998, Springer

• June 2023, “"Disease subtype identification and characterisation using Explainable AI from biochemical markers data", Teeside University, UK
• January 2023, “Actionable Explainable AI in Biomedicine”, invited talk, Erasmus Medical Centre, Rotterdam, Netherlands
• May 2022 “Actionable Explainable AI in Biomedicine”, invited talk, Teeside University, UK.
• March 2020, “Introduction to Machine Learning”, training course, Universidad Nacional de Tucuman, Argentina
• June 2017 “Inferring functional networks from rule-based machine learning models”, invited seminar, School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham, UK
• March 2015. "The bi-directional feedback between big data mining and bioinformatics", invited seminar, School of Computing, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK
• June 2014. "The bi-directional feedback between big data mining and bioinformatics", invited seminar, Centre for Scientific Computing, Warwick University, Coventry, UK
• July 2013. "Large-Scale Data Mining using Genetics-Based Machine Learning", tutorial speaker, GECCO-2013 conference, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
• August 2012. "Introduction to Bioinformatics", tutorial speaker, PPSN-2012 conference, Taormina, Italy
• July 2012. "Large-Scale Data Mining using Genetics-Based Machine Learning", tutorial speaker, GECCO-2012 conference, Philadelphia, USA
• February 2012. "Large scale data mining using Genetics-Based Machine Learning", keynote talk, MAEB-2012 conference, Albacete, Spain.
• July 2011. "Large-Scale Data Mining using Genetics-Based Machine Learning", tutorial speaker, GECCO-2011 conference, Dublin, Ireland.
• July 2010. "Large-Scale Data Mining using Genetics-Based Machine Learning", tutorial speaker, WCCI-2010 Conference, Barcelona, Spain
• May 2010. Data Mining Protein Structures' Topological Properties to Enhance Contact Map Predictions", Bioinformatics and Genome Research Open Club, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
• July 2009. "Large-Scale Data Mining using Genetics-Based Machine Learning", tutorial speaker, GECCO-2009 conference, Portland, USA
• June 2009. "GBML methods for large-scale datasets", Learning Classifier Systems Group, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK
• May 2008. "Memetic Pittsburgh Learning Classifier Systems", 1st Workshop on Knowledge Extraction based on Evolutionary Learning, Granada, Spain
• May 2008. "GBML methods for large-scale datasets", 1st Workshop on Knowledge Extraction based on Evolutionary Learning, Granada, Spain.
• December 2007. "Bioinformatics: Protein Structure Prediction using Evolutionary Rule Learning", School of Mathematics, University of La Laguna, Spain.
• December 2006. "Coordination number prediction using Learning Classifier Systems: Performance and interpretability", Structural Computational Biology Group of the Spain National Center for Oncology Research - CNIO, Madrid, Spain
• May 2006. "Pittsburgh Learning Classifier Systems for Protein Structure Prediction: Scalability and Explanatory Power", NCSA/IlliGAL Gathering on Evolutionary Learning, NIGEL2006, Urbana, IL, USA
• February 2006. "The GAssist Learning Classifier System", Learning Classifier Systems Group, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK.

• IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computetion
• IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics
• Evolutionary Computation Journal
• International Journal of AI Tools
• Soft Computing Journal
• Expert Systems, the Journal of Knowledge Engineering
• Frontiers in Bioscience
• Journal of Artificial Evolution and Applications
• Computers in Biology and Medicine
• Evolutionary Intelligence
• Natural Computing
• Pattern Recognition Letters
• PLOS One
• BMC Genomics
• Information Sciences
• Memetic Computing
• Applied Soft Computing
• Neurocomputing
• WIREs Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
• Journal of Molecular Graphics and Modelling
• BioSystems
• Amino Acids
• Artificial Intelligence
• Knowledge and Information Systems
• Data and Knowledge Engineering
• Plant Physiology
• Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology
• Advances in Artificial Intelligence.
• IEEE Transations on NanoBioscience
• Nature Reviews Genetics
• Knowledge-based Systems
• Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines

• Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO) (since 2005)
• Spanish Conference on meta-heuristics and evolutionary and bio-inspired algorithms (MAEB) (since 2005)
• International Workshop on Learning Classifier Systems (since 2005)
• ASME 2005 International Design Engineering Technical Conference
• International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN) (since 2006)
• International Conference on Evolutionary Computation (CEC) (since 2008)
• 2nd International Confernence on Bio-Inspired Computing: Theory and Applications (BIC-TA 2007)
• International Workshop on Nature Inspired Cooperative Strategies for Optimization, NICSO (since 2007)
• IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (2006-2007)
• 2nd IAPR Workshop on Pattern Recognition in Bioinformatics (PRIB 2007)
• Symposium on Applied Computing - SAC (since 2010)
• International Conference on Hybrid Artificial Intelligence Systems - HAIS (since 2009)
• The 11th Ibero-American Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IBERAMIA 2008)
• Fifth International Meeting on Computational Intelligence Methods for Bioinformatics and Biostatistics
• Spanish Conference on Artificial Intelligence - CAEPIA (since 2009)
• International Work-Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering - IWBBIO (since 2013)
• Parallel Problem Solving from Nature - PPSN (since 2012)
• The American Association on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) International Conference (since 2017)
• The International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) (since 2020)
• The IEEE World Conference on Computational Intelligence (WCCI) (since 2020)
• The European Confernece on Bio-Inspired Computation (EVOSTAR) (since 2017)

• UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, member of the Associate Peer Review College
• UK Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council, memeber of the Pool of Experts, panel member for Committee C (2021-2023), panel member for call "AI for the Biosciences"
• Panel member for the French National Cancer Institute (2017-2019)
• Grant reviewer for the Medical Research Council (MRC), Research Foundation Flanders (FWO), and the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF), Leverhulme Trust, Royal Society and the Chile’s Superior Council of the National Fund for Scientific & Technological Development, Rosetrees Trust

• 2011: Best paper award for the Genetics-Based Machine Learning Track of the GECCO-2011 conference
• 2010: Best paper award for the Genetics-Based Machine Learning Track of the GECCO-2010 conference
• 2009: Best ab-initio contact map prediction method at the 9th Community Wide Experiment on the Critical Assessment of Techniques for Protein Structure Prediction (CASP9)
• 2007: Bronze medal in the 'Humies Awards'. This prize is awarded to Evolutionary Computation applications that manage to obtain human-competitive results of high relevance and impact.