Dr. Eduardo Vega-Alvarado received his B.Sc. degree in Communications
and Electronics Engineering from the Escuela Superior de Ingeniería Mecánica y Eléctrica
(México, 1992), an M.Sc. degree in Digital Systems from the Centro de Investigación
Tecnológica en Computación (México, 1996), and a Ph.D. degree on Computational and
Electronic Systems from the Universidad Autónoma de Tlaxcala (México, 2017). He
is a full-time researcher and professor in the Centro de Innovación y Desarrollo
Tecnológico en Cómputo (CIDETEC) of the Instituto Politécnico Nacional, in México City. His areas of interest include optimization with metaheuristics,
the development of hybrid algorithms, and
their application to engineering problems.