Gary B. Fogel, PhD, is Vice President of Natural Selection, Inc., and his current research interests focus on the application of computational intelligence methods to problems in the biomedical sciences. He is a senior member of the IEEE and serves as an Associate Editor on three IEEE journals.

David W. Corne holds a Chair in Computer Science at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, Scotland, and his research interests include evolutionary computation, multi-objective optimization, bioinformatics, telecommunications, and general aspects and applications of nature-inspired computation.

Yi Pan, PhD, is Chair and Professor of Computer Science at Georgia State University and his research interests include high-performance computing, networking, and bioinformatics. Dr. Pan has coedited over twenty books and his recent research has been supported by the NSF, NIH, NSFC, AFOSR, AFRL, JSPS, IISF, and the states of Georgia and Ohio.