Dr. Slim Bechikh

Short Biography

Slim Bechikh (SMIEEE'21) received the BSc, MSc, PhD, and Habilitation degrees in Computer Science with Business from the University of Tunis, ISG-Tunis, Tunisia, in 2006, 2008, 2013, and 2015, respectively. He is currently an Associate Professor in Artificial Intelligence and Data Science at the School of Computer Science, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom. He is also a member of the COL laboratory within the same institution. Prior to that, he was Full Professor with the University of Carthage, FSEG-Nabeul, Tunisia. He also served as a researcher within the SMART laboratory at the University of Tunis for more than 15 years. He published over 110 papers in peer-reviewed journals and refereed conferences. His current research interests include evolutionary machine learning, evolutionary optimization, neural architecture search, data analytics, SBSE, and GenAI. Dr. Bechikh was a recipient of the Best Paper Award of the ACM SAC-2010 in Switzerland. He supervised the Tunisian best national Doctoral thesis in ICT for the year 2019, which earned a presidential prize in scientific research and technology. He was elevated to the grade of IEEE Senior Member in August 2021. He is Associate Editor for IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION, IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON SMC-SYSTEMS, and SWARM AND EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION. He serves as a reviewer for over 80 international journals in artificial intelligence and its applications. He has been named the University of Nottingham's Turing Academic Liaison, effective September 2025.