Julian. F. Miller, BSc (Lond), PhD (City), PGCLTHE (Bham). Dr. Miller’s obtained his first degree in Physics from the University of London in 1980 and obtained his doctorate in Nonlinear Mathematics from the City University in 1988 and a postgraduate certificate in learning and teaching in higher education in 2003 from the University of Birmingham. He worked at Napier University from 1989-1999 and the Natural Computation research group in the School of Computer Science at the University of Birmingham from 1999-2003. He joined the Department of Electronics at the University of York in Oct 2003. He has chaired twelve international workshops and conferences in Genetic Programming (GP) and Evolvable Hardware. He is an associate editor of the Journal of Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines and was an associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation from 2003-2006. He is on the editorial board of the journals: Evolutionary Computation, International Journal of Unconventional Computing, International Journal of Natural Computing Research. He chaired three research workshops at GECCO from 2004-2006 on Developmental Systems at GECCO from 2004 to 2006 and then co-founded and co-chaired the first full track on Generative and Developmental Systems at GECCO in 2007. He has publications in genetic programming, evolutionary computation, quantum computing, artificial life, evolvable hardware, computational developmental systems and nonlinear mathematics. Dr Miller is a highly cited author with over 2,000 citations and over 160 publications in related areas. He has given 37 invited talks to companies, research organizations, conferences and universities. He co-invented a method of genetic programming called Cartesian Genetic Programming in 2000 which is a highly cited technique in the field of genetic programming.

Kenneth O. Stanley is an assistant professor in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Central Florida. He received a B.S.E. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1997 and received a Ph.D. in 2004 from the University of Texas at Austin. He is an inventor of the Neuroevolution of Augmenting Topologies (NEAT) and HyperNEAT algorithms for evolving complex artificial neural networks. His main research contributions are in neuroevolution (i.e. evolving neural networks), generative and developmental systems, coevolution, machine learning for video games, and interactive evolution.  He has won best paper awards for his work on NEAT, NERO, NEAT Drummer, and HyperNEAT.  He is an associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Computational Intelligence and AI in Games, the chair of the IEEE Task Force on Computational Intelligence and Video Games, and has chaired the Generative and Developmental Systems track at GECCO for the last three years.

René Doursat is Director of the Complex Systems Institute, ParisIle-de-France (ISC-PIF) and Full Member of CREA, the research center in cognitive science and self-organization at Ecole Polytechnique, Paris.
Previously, he was a Visiting Assistant Professor in computer science at the University of Nevada, Reno. An alumnus of Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, he completed his Ph.D. at Université Paris VI in 1991, followed by a postdoctoral fellowship at the Institute of Neuroinformatics, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany. After a segue through several startup companies of San Francisco Bay Area’s software industry, Dr. Doursat came back to academia full-time in 2004, in Reno, then Paris. His research activities address the computational modeling and simulation of large multi-agent systems aimed at a new form of engineering inspired by biological, neural and social complexity. He is especially interested in
“self-made puzzles”, i.e., the emergence and self-organization of complex, articulated morphologies from a swarm of heterogeneous agents through dynamical, developmental, and evolutionary processes. For example, these can be innovative structures in multi-cellular organisms, autonomic networks of
computing devices, or “mental representations” and imagery made of correlated spiking neurons. Dr. Doursat is the principal organizer of the French Complex Systems Summer School (Paris, 2008, 2009), the First International Workshop in Morphogenetic Engineering (Paris, June 2009), and other events in complex systems science and engineering. He is an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, and an expert reviewer or advisor for several journals, grant agencies, award juries, and curriculum committees.

Peter J. Bentley is an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the Department of Computer Science, University College London (UCL), Collaborating Professor at the Korean Advanced Institute for Science and Technology (KAIST), a contributing editor for WIRED UK, a consultant and a freelance writer. He achieved a B.Sc. (Hon's) degree in Computer Science (Artificial Intelligence) in 1993 and a Ph.D. in evolutionary computation applied to design in 1996, at the age of 24. Peter runs the Digital Biology Interest Group at UCL. His research investigates evolutionary algorithms, computational development, artificial immune systems, swarming systems and other complex systems, applied to diverse applications including design, control, novel robotics, nanotechnology, fraud detection, security, art, and music composition. Peter was nominated for the $100,000 Edge of Computation Prize in 2005. Through his research and his books he often gives public lectures, takes part in debates, and appears on radio and television; he is also the host of the monthly Royal Institution's Cafe Scientifique, and a Science Media Expert for the RI Science Media Centre. He regularly gives plenary speeches at international scientific conferences and is a consultant, convenor, chair and reviewer for workshops, conferences, journals and books in the field of evolutionary computation and complex systems. He has published over 160 scientific papers and is editor of the books "Evolutionary Design by Computers", "Creative Evolutionary Systems" and "On Growth, Form and Computers", and author of "The PhD Application Handbook" and the popular science books "Digital Biology", "The Book of Numbers" and "The Undercover Scientist: Investigating the Mishaps of Everyday Life".

Josh Bongard received his Bachelors degree in Computer Science from McMaster University, Canada, his Masters degree from the University of Sussex, UK, and his PhD from the University of Zurich, Switzerland. He served as a postdoctoral associate under Hod Lipson in the Computational Synthesis Laboratory at Cornell University from 2003 to 2006. He is the co-author of the popular science book entitled "How the Body Shapes the Way We Think: A New View of Intelligence," MIT Press, November 2006 (with Rolf Pfeifer). Currently, he is an assistant professor in the Computer Science Department at the University of Vermont. His research interests include embodied cognition and evolutionary computation, and he was named both a Microsoft Research New Faculty Fellow in 2006, as well as a member of the TR35: MIT Technology Review’s top 35 innovators under the age of 35.