Held at Victoria University of Wellington’s Kelburn Campus, Prof. Carlos A. Coello Coello gave a presentation discussing the Lessons Learned after 25 Years Designing Multi-Objective Evolutionary Algorithms on September 23 in CO350

In this talk, Prof. Carlos described his origins as a researcher working in a field which is now known as “evolutionary multi-objective optimization” (EMOO), 25 years ago. Then, he described the inception of his research group at Cinvestav (in Mexico City, Mexico) in 2001, including some of the issues (good and bad) that researchers had to face at that time in Mexico. Prof. Carlos also mentioned some of the main differences between the way in which research on EMOO was conducted 25 years ago with respect to current research practices including, among other things, topics and methodological issues. In the last part of the talk, Prof. Carlos briefly mentioned some of the pioneering contributions developed at his research group, but not without mentioning some of the biggest failures, too. Prof. Carolos finalized the talk with his personal (and a bit critical) view of the way in which research on EMOO is being conducted today, including some advice for young researchers working in this exciting field.