Riccardo Poli is a Professor in CSEE. His main research interests include brain-computer interfaces, human cognitive augmentation, neural engineering, genetic programming, particle swarm optimisation and the theory of evolutionary algorithms. He has published more than 300 refereed papers on evolutionary algorithms, biomedical engineering, neural networks and image/signal processing. He was a co-founder of the Essex BCI-NE group in 2004. He has co-authored the books Foundations of Genetic Programming, Springer, 2002 and A Field Guide to Genetic Programing, Lulu, 2008. He has been chair of numerous international conferences. He is an advisory board member of the Evolutionary Computation journal and was an associate editor of the Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines journal and a member of the editorial board of Swarm Intelligence. According to Google Scholar he has presently an H-index of 59, meaning that he has 59 publications which have been cited at least 59 times each.