Enrique Alba

Background

About Enrique Alba

Prof. Enrique Alba had his degree in engineering and PhD in Computer Science in 1992 and respectively, by the University of Málaga (Spain). He works as a Full Professor in this university with different teaching duties: data communications and evolutionary algorithms at graduate and master programs, respectively. Dr. Alba leads a team of 7 doctors and 8 engineers (most of them PhD candidates) in the field of complex optimization. In addition to the organization of international events IPDPS-NIDISC, MSWiM, DS-RT, …) Dr. Alba has offered dozens doctorate courses, multiple seminars in more than 20 international institutions and has directed several research projects (5 with national funds, 5 in Europe and numerous bilateral actions). Also, Dr. Alba has directed 6 contracts for innovation and transference to the industry (OPTIMI, Tartessos, ACERINOX, ARELANCE) and at present he also works as invited professor at INRIA and the Univ. of Luxembourg. He is editor in several international journals and book series of Springer-Verlag and Wiley, as well as he often reviews articles for more than 30 impact journals. He has published 50 articles in journals indexed by Thomson ISI, 17 articles in other journals, 40 papers in LNCS, and more than 200 refereed conferences. Besides that, Dr. Alba has published 11 books, 39 book chapters, and has merited 6 awards to his professional activities. Pr. Alba’s H index is 24, with more than 1500 cites to his works (excluding self-cites). Specialties: Complex problem optimization, search and learning Telecommunications, bioinformatics, software engineering, vehicular networks (VANETs), smart cities, bio-inspired techniques, parallelism (clusters, grid, multicores, GPUs), software testing, discrete and continuous optimization