**About the Editors**

#### **Florin Leon**

Florin Leon, Ph.D., is currently a Full Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering of the "Gheorghe Asachi" University of Iasi, Romania. He received a doctoral degree in computer science from the same university, followed by a postdoctoral fellowship completed in 2007. In 2015, he defended his habilitation thesis. He has authored and co-authored more than 180 journal articles, book chapters and conference papers, and 14 books. He has 629 citations with an h-index of 12 according to Scopus. He was a member of the guest editorial boards for three journal Special Issues, and he has participated in 29 national and international research projects, 3 of which were as the principal investigator. His scientific interests include: artificial intelligence, machine learning, multiagent systems and software design. In his research, he used various machine learning techniques for modelling, such as simple, stacked and deep neural networks, instance-based methods, and large-margin nearest neighbor regression. He also addressed optimization problems using different types of evolutionary algorithms, quantum-inspired algorithms and combinations of global and local search methods. Moreover, he studied multiagent systems with complex behaviors and performed various agent-based simulations. Prof. Leon was a member of the organizing committees or program committee chair of five conferences. He is currently a member of IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics Society: Computational Collective Intelligence Technical Community and the Romanian Association for Artificial Intelligence.

#### **Mircea Hulea**

Mircea Hulea, Ph.D., is currently an Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering of the "Gheorghe Asachi" Technical University of Iasi, Romania. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Engineering and Automatic Control from the same university, in 2004 and 2008, respectively. In this institution, he was also a Postdoctoral Researcher when he worked on the project of Biomimetic hardware and software systems and their applications, from 2010 to 2013. He is the author of over 40 technical publications, proceedings, editorials and books, with more than 20 being indexed in the Web of Science. His research interests include brain modelling, humanoid robotics and optical wireless communications. He is the coordinator of the collaborative research network on spiking neural networks at the host university, and a member in the management committee of the European project COST Action 19111 (NEWFOCUS).

#### **Marius Gavrilescu**

Marius Gavrilescu, Ph.D., is a Lecturer at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering of the "Gheorghe Asachi" Technical University of Iasi, Romania. His research activity and interests involve the following: machine learning—classification and regression models, object recognition, deep learning neural network architectures applied mainly for the processing of medical images and data originating from natural sciences; computer graphics and data visualization: visual representations and rendering of multidimensional data from medical imaging; volume graphics; GPU programming and parallel algorithms; filtering, enhancement and analysis of images from the automotive field, natural sciences, climatology and meteorology; modelling and simulation of physical phenomena: fluid dynamics, collisions, optical models based on ray tracing or path tracing, real-time graphics and physics engines.
