| 1. Automated Algorithm Design, Configuration and Selection (AADCS) |
| Nelishia Pillay, University of Pretoria |
| Rong Qu, University of Nottingham |
| 2. Adaptive Dynamic Programming and Reinforcement Learning (ADPRL) |
| Zhen Ni, Florida Atlantic University |
| Jennie Si, Arizona State University |
| Chaoxu Mu, Tianjin University |
| 3. CI Applications in Smart Grid (CIASG) |
| Dipti Srinivasan, Nanyang Technological University |
| Naran Pindoriya, Indian Institute of Technology |
| Anupam Trivedi, National University of Singapore |
| Kumar Venayagamoorthy, Clemson University |
| Fernando Lezama Cruzvillasante, Polytechnic of Porto |
| 4. CI for Brain Computer Interfaces (CIBCI) |
| Yu-Kai Wang, University of Technology Sydney |
| Fani Deligianni, University of Glasgow |
| Chun-Shu Wei, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University |
| Gang Li, University of Glasgow |
| 5. CI in Biometrics and Identity Management (CIBIM) |
| Svetlana Yanushkevich, University of Calgary, Canada |
| Masood Khan, Curtin University, Australia |
| Ajita Rattani, Wichita State University, USA |
| 6. CI in Big Data (CIBD) |
| Junping Du, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications |
| Handing Wang, Xidian University |
| Yaochu Jin, Bielefeld University |
| Spencer Thomas, NPL, UK |
| 7. CI in Control and Automation (CICA) |
| Daoyi Dong, UNSW Canberra |
| Xiaojun Zeng, The University of Manchester |
| 8. CI in Healthcare and E-health (CICARE) |
| Amir Hussain,Edinburgh Napier University, UK |
| Aziz Sheikh, University of Edinburgh, UK |
| Mufti Mahmud, Nottingham Trent University, UK |
| 9. CI in Cyber Security (CICS) |
| Dipankar Dasgupta, The University of Memphis, USA |
| Kaushik Roy, North Carolina A&T, USA |
| Kishor Datta Gupta, Clark Atlanta University, USA |
| 10. CI in Data Mining (CIDM) |
| Zhen Ni, Florida Atlantic University |
| 11. CI in Dynamic and Uncertain Environments (CIDUE) |
| Michalis Mavrovouniotis, University of Cyprus, Cyprus |
| Changhe Li, China University of Geosciences, China |
| Shengxiang Yang, De Montfort University, UK |
| 12. CI and Ensemble Learning (CIEL) |
| P. N. Suganthan, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore |
| Xin Yao, University of Birmingham, UK |
| 13. CI for Engineering Solutions (CIES) |
| Michael Beer, Leibniz University Hannover, Germany |
| Vladik Kreinovich, University of Texas at El Paso, USA |
| Rudolf Kruse, Otto-von-Guericke University, Germany |
| 14. CI for Financial Engineering and Economics (CIFEr) |
| Ruppa K. Thulasiram, University of Manitoba, Canada |
| Biliana Alexandrova-Kabadjova, Banco de México, Mexico |
| 15. CI for Human-like Intelligence (CIHLI) |
| Jacek Mańdziuk, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland |
| Włodzisław Duch, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Poland |
| Marcin Woźniak, Silesian University of Technology, Poland |
| 16. CI in IoT and Smart Cities (CIIoT) |
| Amir H. Gandomi, University of Technology Sydney, Australia |
| Mahmoud Daneshmand, Stevens Institute of Technology, USA |
| Huansheng Ning, University of Science and Technology Beijing, China |
| Mohammad S. Khan, East Tennessee State University, USA |
| Honggang Wang, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, USA |
| Chonggang Wang, InterDigital, USA |
| 17. CI for Industrial Process (CIIP) |
| Wen Yu, CINVESTAV-IPN, Mexico |
| Jinliang Ding, Northeastern University, China |
| 18. CI for Multimedia Signal and Vision Processing (CIMSIVP) |
| Pablo Mesejo, University of Granada, Spain |
| Harith Al-Sahaf, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand |
| Ying Bi, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand |
| Mengjie Zhang, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand |
| 19. CI in Remote Sensing (CIRS) |
| Jayavelu Senthilnath, Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R), A*STAR, Singapore |
| Jon Atli Benediktsson, University of Iceland, Iceland |
| 20. CI for Security and Defense Applications (CISDA) |
| Rami Abielmona, Larus Technologies, Canada |
| Robert Bolia, Defence Science & Technology Group, Australia |
| Robert Hunjet, Defence Science & Technology Group, Australia |
| 21. CI in Vehicles and Transportation Systems (CIVTS) |
| Yi Lu Murphey, University of Michigan-Dearborn, USA |
| Xian Wei, Chinese Academy of Sciences |
| Justin Dauwels, Nanyang Technological University |
| 22. Deep Learning (DL) |
| Alessandro Sperduti, University of Padova, Italy |
| Plamen Angelov, Lancaster University, UK |
| Jose C. Principe, University of Florida, USA |
| 23. Evolving and Autonomous Learning Systems (EALS) |
| Plamen Angelov, Lancaster University, UK |
| Nikola Kasabov, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand |
| 24. Evolutionary Neural Architecture Search and Applications (ENASA) |
| Yanan Sun, Sichuan University, China |
| 25. Evolutionary Scheduling and Combinatorial Optimization (ESCO) |
| Yi Mei, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand |
| Nelishia Pillay, University of Pretoria, South Africa |
| Liang Gao, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China |
| Rong Qu, University of Nottingham, UK |
| 26. Ethical, Social and Legal Implications of Artificial Intelligence (ETHAI) |
| Keeley Crocket, Manchester Metropolitan University, United Kingdom |
| Matt Garratt, UNSW Canberra, Australia |
| 27. CI in Feature Analysis, Selection and Learning in Image and Pattern Recognition (FASLIP) |
| Mengjie Zhang, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand |
| Bing Xue, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand |
| Hisao Ishibuchi, Southern University of Science and Technology, China |
| Brijesh Verma, Central Queensland University, Australia |
| 28. Foundations of CI (FOCI) |
| Domingo Lopez, University of Malaga, Spain |
| Leonardo Franco, University of Florida, USA |
| Chao Qian, Nanjing University, China |
| 29. Evolvable Systems (ICES) |
| Andy Tyrrell, University of York, UK |
| Martin A. Trefzer, University of York, UK |
| 30. Immune Computation (IComputation) |
| Wenjian Luo, Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, China |
| Mario Pavone, University of Catania, Italy |
| Uwe Aickelin, The University of Melbourne, Australia |
| Licheng Jiao, Xidian University, China |
| 31. Intelligent Agents (IA) |
| Sabrina Senatore, University of Salerno, Italy |
| Mario G.C.A. Cimino, University of Pisa, Italy |
| Riyaz Sikora, University of Texas at Arlington, USA |
| 32. Intelligent Biomedical Data Analysis (IBDA) |
| Alan Wang, University of Auckland, New Zealand |
| Nikola Kasabov, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand |
| Yuefeng Li, Queensland University of Technology, Australia |
| 33. Multi-agent System Coordination and Optimization (MASCO) |
| Jing Liu, Xidian University, China |
| Kai Wu, Xidian University, China |
| 34. Model-Based Evolutionary Algorithms (MBEA) |
| Ran Cheng, Southern University of Science and Technology, China |
| Cheng He, Southern University of Science and Technology, China |
| Jose A. Lozano, University of the Basque Country, Spain |
| Yaochu Jin, University of Surrey, UK |
| 35. Multicriteria Decision-Making (MCDM) |
| Hemant Singh, UNSW Canberra, Australia |
| Kalyanmoy Deb, Michigan State University, USA |
| 36. Nature-Inspired Computation in Engineering (NICE) |
| João Paulo Papa, São Paulo State University, Brazil |
| Xin-She Yang, Middlesex University London, UK |
| 37. Robotic Intelligence in Informationally Structured Space (RiiSS) |
| Janos Botzheim, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary |
| Wei Hong Chin, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan |
| Chu Kiong Loo, University of Malaya, Malaysia |
| Hiroyuki Masuta, Toyama Prefectural University, Japan |
| Naoki Masuyama, Osaka Prefecture University, Japan |
| 38. Cooperative Metaheuristics (SCM) |
| Mohammed El-Abd, American University of Kuwait |
| Shi Cheng, Shaanxi Normal University, China |
| Seyedali Mirjalili, Obuda University, Hungary |
| Diego Oliva, Universidad de Guadalajara, CUCEI, Mexico |
| 39. Differential Evolution (SDE) |
| Rammohan Mallipeddi, Kyungpook National University, South Korea |
| Guohua Wu, Central South University, Changsha, China |
| 40. Swarm Intelligence Symposium (SIS) |
| Sanaz Mostaghim, Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg, Germany |
| Yuhui Shi, Southern University of Science and Technology, China |
| Shi Cheng, Shaanxi Normal University, China |