Prof. Hisao Ishibuchi received the BS and MS degrees from Kyoto University in 1985 and 1987, respectively. In 1992, he received the Ph. D. degree from Osaka Prefecture University where he has been a professor since 1999. From April 2017, he is with Department of Computer Science and Engineering, SUSTech, Shenzhen, China as a Chair Professor. He received a Best Paper Award from GECCO 2004, HIS-NCEI 2006, FUZZ-IEEE 2009, WAC 2010, SCIS & ISIS 2010, FUZZ-IEEE 2011, ACIIDS 2015 and GECCO 2017. He also received a 2007 JSPS (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science) Prize. He was the IEEE CIS Vice-President for Technical Activities (2010-2013) and an IEEE CIS Distinguished Lecturer (2015-2017). Currently, he is the President of the Japan EC Society (2016-2018), the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE CI Magazine (2014-2019) and Journal of Japan EC Society (2014-2018), an IEEE CIS AdCom member (2014-2019). He is also an Associate Editor of IEEE TEVC (2007-2018), IEEE Access (2013-2018) and IEEE TCyb (2013-2018). He is an IEEE Fellow.