Talks & Presentations

Invited talks, conference presentations, seminars, and lecture slides (2005–2025). Slides are provided in PDF format where available.

2025

2025
Talk at Dagstuhl Seminar 25092: EDAs: Theory and Applications
Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz Center for Informatics, Germany
Slides (PDF)
2025
INHOMOGENEOUS RANDOM SYSTEMS. Institut Henri Poincaré. Paris
France, 2025
Slides (PDF)
2025
Colloquium "Combinatorics and Life Sciences"
Lyon, France, 2025
Slides (PDF)

2024

2024
1st International Workshop on Causality, Agents and Large Models (CALM-2024)
Kyoto, Japan
Slides (PDF)
2024
7th International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Intelligent Systems (CIIS 2024)
Nagoya, Japan
Slides (PDF)
2024
Invited talk – CIMO 2024
2024
Slides (PDF)
2024
10th IEEE International Conference on Sustainable Technology and Engineering (i-COSTE 2024)
Perth, Australia
Slides (PDF)

2023

2023
10th International Conference on Social Networks Analysis, Management and Security (SNAMS 2023)
Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Slides (PDF)
2023
IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI 2023)
Mexico DF, Mexico
Slides (PDF)

2022

2022
GECCO 2022 – Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference
Boston, MA, USA
Slides (PDF)
2022
ESCI Bari – Invited presentation on Epitope prediction
Bari, Italy
Slides (PDF)
2022
IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI 2022)
Singapore
Slides (PDF)

2020

2020
IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC 2020)
Glasgow, UK (online)
Slides (PDF)
2020
IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI 2020)
Online
Slides (PDF)

2019–2014

Presentations from this period cover topics including adversarial machine learning, multi-objective optimization, empathic computing, brain-computer interfaces, and Bayesian optimization.

2019
CIMO 2019 – Optimization Workshop
2019
Slides (PDF)
2019
GECCO 2019 – Travelling Thief Problem
GECCO 2019
Slides (PDF)
2019
ICT 2019 Presentation
ICT 2019
Slides (PDF)
2019
Invited Talk – INRIA
INRIA, France, 2019
Slides (PDF)
2019
OLA 2019 – Open Problems in Learning Algorithms
OLA 2019
Slides (PDF)
2018
Empathic Computing Workshop – Bilbao
Bilbao, Spain, 2018
Slides (PDF)
2018
CIMO 2018 – Multi-objective Problems
2018
Slides (PDF)
2017
Neuroscience Symposium – Bordeaux
Bordeaux, France, 2017
Slides (PDF)
2017
GECCO 2017 – Gray-Box Optimization
GECCO 2017
Slides (PDF)
2017
GECCO 2017 – Survival Analysis in Evolutionary Computation
GECCO 2017
Slides (PDF)
2016
CEC 2016 – Symmetries in Optimization
CEC 2016
Slides (PDF)
2016
GECCO 2016 – Flag Optimization Workshop
GECCO 2016
Slides (PDF)
2016
GECCO 2016 – Chimera Topologies
GECCO 2016
Slides (PDF)
2016
GECCO 2016 – mUBQP Landscape Design
GECCO 2016
Slides (PDF)
2016
Invited Talk – BRACIS 2016
BRACIS 2016, Brazil
Slides (PDF)
2016
META 2016 Tutorial
META 2016
Slides (PDF)
2015
Brain-Computer Interface Talk 2015
2015
Slides (PDF)
2015
CAEPIA 2015 – Vowel Classification
CAEPIA 2015
Slides (PDF)
2015
Invited Presentation – Tbilisi
Tbilisi, Georgia, 2015
Slides (PDF)
2015
Talk on Transfer Learning – Belo Horizonte
Belo Horizonte, Brazil, 2015
Slides (PDF)
2015
Talk on Research Topics – Curitiba
Curitiba, Brazil, 2015
Slides (PDF)
2015
CEC 2015 – MNK Landscape
CEC 2015
Slides (PDF)
2014
Real AI Presentation – London
London, UK, 2014
Slides (PDF)
2014
Talk on Structure Discovery – New Zealand
New Zealand, 2014
Slides (PDF)
2014
Quantum-enhanced Evolutionary Algorithms (QuantumSEAL)
International workshop, 2014
Slides (PDF)

Earlier Years (2005–2013)

Talks and presentations from the early years of the research career, covering estimation of distribution algorithms, brain-computer interfaces, evolutionary computation, and bioinformatics.

2013
Seminar on Surrogate Models
2013
Slides (PDF)
2013
GECCO 2013 – Multi-objective and Permutation Algorithms
GECCO 2013
Slides (PDF)
2013
Presentation – Lille
Lille, France, 2013
Slides (PDF)
2013
SBP Talk 2013
2013
Slides (PDF)
2013
Presentation – Tenerife
Tenerife, Spain, 2013
Slides (PDF)
2012
BioMag 2012 – Brain-Computer Interface Challenge
BioMag 2012
Slides (PDF)
2012
Main Talk on Estimation of Distribution Algorithms
2012
Slides (PDF)
2012
Saccades Competition Talk
2012
Slides (PDF)
2011
GECCO 2011 – Cancer Classification
GECCO 2011
Slides (PDF)
2011
GECCO 2011 – Software Optimization with Markov Networks
GECCO 2011
Slides (PDF)
2011
GECCO 2011 – Software Tools for Evolutionary Computation
GECCO 2011
Slides (PDF)
2011
GECCO 2011 – P300 Brain Signals
GECCO 2011
Slides (PDF)
2011
Invited Talk – Helsinki
Helsinki, Finland, 2011
Slides (PDF)
2011
Seminar – Computational Intelligence Group
2011
Slides (PDF)
2010
MEG Analysis – Machine Learning Approaches
BCI Workshop, Berlin, Germany, 2010
Slides (PDF)
2010
Blue Brain Project – Computational Neuroscience
Europe, 2010
Slides (PDF)
2010
MEG Presentation – Dubrovnik
Dubrovnik, Croatia, 2010
Slides (PDF)
2010
EvoBio 2010 – Evolutionary Bioinformatics
EvoBio 2010
Slides (PDF)
2010
IEA-AIE 2010 – Intelligent Systems Presentation
2010
Slides (PDF)
2010
European Conference Presentation
Europe, 2010
Slides (PDF)
2007
EvoBio 2007 – Evolutionary Bioinformatics
EvoBio 2007
Slides (PDF)
2006
Presentation – San Sebastián
San Sebastián, Spain, 2006
Slides (PDF)
2006
ECML 2006
ECML 2006
Slides (PDF)
2006
PMEC 2006
PMEC 2006
Slides (PDF)
2005
CEDI 2005 – Protein Structure Prediction
CEDI 2005, Spain
Slides (PDF)
2005
Properties of Evolutionary Algorithms
2005
Slides (PDF)

PhD Dissertation & Courses

2006
PhD Dissertation Defense Presentation
University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), Donostia-San Sebastián, 2006
Slides (PDF)
Course
Estimation of Distribution Algorithms (EDAs) – Full Course
Lecture series / Summer school format
Introduction (PDF)  |  Implementations (PDF)  |  Applications (PDF)