Current PhD Students
Guillem Rodríguez Corominas
Starting date: October 2022
Rocco Ballester Benito
Starting date: October 2023
Ramon Vallés Puig
Starting date: October 2025
Recent Ex PhD Students
Jaume Reixach i Pérez
Defense: January 2026
Camilo Chacón Sartori
Defense: December 2025
Mehmet Anil Akbay
Defense: September 2024
Teddy Nurcahyadi
Defense: September 2022
Current Teaching
Due to my current post as Senior Research Scientist, I am not giving classes on a regular basis. In one of my previous posts as associate professor at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (Barcelona, Spain), I had the normal teaching load of a Spanish university professor.
Courses on Metaheuristics and Hybrids
Occasionally, I give courses of 20-40 hours on metaheuristics and hybrid techniques for optimization (in English or Spanish). The last course in Spanish took place at the University of Cuenca, Ecuador, October 2021. And the last one in English took place at the Vienna Graduate School on Computational Optimization, Austria, March 2022.
Example Course: Vienna Graduate School on Computational Optimization
Below is a description and sample slides from a representative course given in 2022:
- Course Description (Vienna)
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Sample Slides on Swarm Intelligence
The course material comprises about 600 slides. When the course is given in Spanish, slides are also in Spanish.
Award for Student Supervision
In November 2012, I received a student supervision award because my ex-student Sergi Mateo Bellido won the first prize at the Certamen Arquímedes 2012, awarded for the best Master's thesis in Spain.