Biography: Andries Engelbrecht received the master’s and Ph.D. degrees in computer science from Stellenbosch University, South Africa, in 1994 and 1999, respectively. Prior to 2019, he was with the Department of Computer Science, University of Pretoria, from 1998 to 2018, where he served as the Head of the Department, from 2008 to 2017; the South African Research Chair of artificial intelligence, from 2007 to 2018; and the Director of the Institute for Big Data and Data Science, from 2017 to 2018. He is currently appointed as the Voigt Chair of data science with the Department of Industrial Engineering, with a joint appointment as a Professor with the Computer Science Division, Stellenbosch University. He is the author of two books Computational Intelligence: An Introduction and Fundamentals of Computational Swarm Intelligence. He is the author/co-author of over 370 articles. He currently holds an NRF A-rating. His research interests include swarm intelligence, evolutionary computation, artificial neural networks, artificial immune systems, machine learning, data analytics, and the application of these artificial intelligence paradigms to data mining, games, bioinformatics, finance, and difficult optimization problems.