Dr. Verónica Bolón-Canedo received her Ph D in Computer Science from the University of A Coruña, where she is currently a postdoctoral researcher. Her research interests include data mining, feature selection and machine learning.  Dr. Noelia Sánchez-Maroño received her Ph D in 2005 from the University of A Coruña, where she is currently a lecturer. Her research interests include agent-based modeling, machine learning and feature selection. Prof. Amparo Alonso-Betanzos received her Ph D in 1988 from the University of Santiago de Compostela, she is a Chair Professor in the Dept. of Computer Science at the University of A Coruña (Spain) and coordinator of the Laboratory for Research and Development in Artificial Intelligence. Her areas of expertise are machine learning, feature selection, knowledge-based systems, and their applications to fields such as predictive maintenance in engineering or predicting gene expression in bioinformatics.