Steering and local committee
| François Blayo | Ipseite (CH) |
| Gianluca Bontempi | Univ.Libre Bruxelles (B) |
| Marie Cottrell | Univ. Paris I (F) |
| Mia Loccufier | Univ. Gent (B) |
| Gilles Louppe | Liège Univ.(B) |
| Bernard Manderick | Vrije Univ. Brussel (B) |
| Jean-Pierre Peters | Univ. Namur (B) |
| Johan Suykens | KUL Leuven (B) |
| Joos Vandewalle | KUL Leuven (B) |
| Michel Verleysen | UCL Louvain-la-Neuve (B) |
| Louis Wehenkel | Liège Univ.(B) |
Scientific committee
| Fabio Aiolli | University of Padova (I) |
| Amparo Alonso-Betanzos | Univ. of A Coruña (E) |
| Plamen Angelov | Lancaster Univ. (UK) |
| Davide Anguita | University of Genoa (I) |
| Cecilio Angulo | Univ. Polit. de Catalunya (E) |
| Aluizio Araújo | Univ. Federal de Pernambuco (Brazil) |
| Cédric Archambeau | Amazon Development Center (D) |
| Miguel Atencia | Univ. Malaga (E) |
| Michael Aupetit | Qatar Computing Res. Inst. (Qatar) |
| Davide Bacciu | Università di Pisa (I) |
| Andreas Backhaus | Fraunhofer-Institut (D) |
| Lluís Belanche | Univ. Polit. de Catalunya (E) |
| Younès Bennani | Université Paris 13 (F) |
| Gyan Bhanot | Rutgers Univ. (USA) |
| Michael Biehl | University of Groningen (NL) |
| Martin Bogdan | Univ. Leipzig (D) |
| Verónica Bolón-Canedo | University of A Coruña (E) |
| Pierre Borgnat | ENS Lyon (F) |
| Charles Bouveyron | Université Côte d’Azur (F) |
| Antonio Braga | Federal University of Minas Gerais (Brazil) |
| Kerstin Bunte | University of Groningen (NL) |
| Joan Cabestany | Univ. Polit. de Catalunya (E) |
| Aurélio Campilho | Univ. Porto (P) |
| Stéphane Canu | INSA Rouen Normandie (F) |
| Andreu Català | Univ. Polit. de Catalunya (E) |
| Sylvain Chevallier | University of Versailles (F) |
| Valentina Colla | Scuola Sup. Sant'Anna (I) |
| Etienne Côme | IFSTTAR (F) |
| Nigel Crook | Oxford Brookes University (UK) |
| Holk Cruse | Universität Bielefeld (D) |
| Giovanni Da San Martino | Qatar Computing Res. Inst. (Qatar) |
| Bernard de Baets | Univ. Gent (B) |
| Kris De Brabanter | Iowa State Univ. (USA) |
| Massimo De Gregorio | Ist. di Sci. Appl. e Sistemi Intelligenti (I) |
| Wilson de Oliveira | Univ. Fed. Rural Pernambuco (Brazil) |
| Gilles Delmaire | Univ. Littoral Côte d'Opale (F) |
| Michele Donini | Amazon (USA) |
| Wlodek Duch | Nicolaus Copernicus Univ. (PL) |
| Bruno Dumas | Univ. Namur (B) |
| Marc Duranton | CEA Saclay (F) |
| Richard Duro | Univ. Coruna (E) |
| Mark Embrechts | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (USA) |
| Anibal Figueiras-Vidal | Univ. Carlos III Madrid (E) |
| Felipe M. G. França | Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) |
| Leonardo Franco | Univ. Malaga (E) |
| Damien François | Université catholique de Louvain (B) |
| Benoît Frénay | Univ. Namur (B) |
| Claudio Gallicchio | University of Pisa (I) |
| Manjunath Gandhi | University of Pretoria (South Africa) |
| Alexander Gepperth | HAW Fulda (D) |
| Alessandro Ghio | Big Data Analytics Consult. (I) |
| Maurizio Giordano | Istituto di Calcolo e Reti ad Alte Prestazioni (I) |
| Luis Gonzalez Abril | University of Sevilla (E) |
| Marco Gori | Univ. Siena (I) |
| Bernard Gosselin | Univ. Mons (B) |
| Anne Guérin-Dugué | University Grenoble Alpes (F) |
| Barbara Hammer | Bielefeld Univ. (D) |
| Verena Heidrich-Meisner | CAU Kiel (D) |
| Katerina Hlavackova-Schindler | Univ. Vienna (A) |
| Guang-Bin Huang | Nanyang Tech. Univ. (Singapore) |
| Gonzalo Joya | Univ. Malaga (E) |
| Christian Jutten | INPG Grenoble (F) |
| Ata Kaban | Univ. Birmingham (UK) |
| Marika Kaden | Univ. Apllied Sciences Mittweida (D) |
| DaeEun Kim | Yonsei Univ. (South Korea) |
| Stefanos Kollias | University of Lincoln (UK) |
| Lubomir Kostal | Institute of Physiology CAS (CZ) |
| Jouko Lampinen | Aalto Univ. (FIN) |
| Beatrice Lazzerini | Univ. Pisa (I) |
| John Lee | Univ. cat Louvain (B) |
| Minho Lee | Kyungpook National University (KR) |
| Amaury Lendasse | University of Houston (USA) |
| Priscila M. V. Lima | Univ. Federal do Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) |
| Paulo Lisboa | Liverpool John Moores University (UK) |
| Thomas Martinetz | Univ. Lübeck (D) |
| David Martinez Rego | Univ. A Coruna (E) |
| José D. Martín-Guerrero | Univ. of Valencia (E) |
| Siamak Mehrkanoon | Maastricht University (NL) |
| Erzsebet Merenyi | Rice Univ. (USA) |
| David Meunier | Aix-Marseille Université (F) |
| Anke Meyer-Bäse | Florida State Univ. (USA) |
| Yoan Miche | Nokia Bell Labs (FIN) |
| Alessio Micheli | University of Pisa (I) |
| Nicola Navarin | Univ. of Padova (I) |
| Ann Nowe | Vrije Univ. Brussel (B) |
| Tjeerd olde Scheper | Oxford Brookes University (UK) |
| Madalina Olteanu | Université Paris 1 (F) |
| Luca Oneto | Univ. Genova (I) |
| Latifa Oukhellou | IFSTTAR (F) |
| Gilles Pagès | Sorbonne Université (F) |
| Konstantinos Papangelou | Univ. Manchester (UK) |
| German Parisi | Univ. Hamburg (D) |
| Kristiaan Pelckmans | Uppsala University (SE) |
| Jaakko Peltonen | University of Tampere (FIN) |
| David Picard | ENSEA (F) |
| Francesco Pistolesi | Universita di Pisa (I) |
| Matthieu Puigt | Univ. Littoral Côte d'Opale (F) |
| Didier Puzenat | Université Lumière Lyon 2 (F) |
| Beatriz Remeseiro | University of Oviedo (E) |
| Jean-Pierre Rospars | INRA Versailles (F) |
| Fabrice Rossi | University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (F) |
| Gilles Roussel | Univ. Littoral Côte d'Opale (F) |
| Ulrich Rückert | Bielefeld University (D) |
| David Saad | Aston Univ. (UK) |
| Francisco Sandoval | Univ. Malaga (E) |
| Jose Santos Reyes | Univ. Coruna (E) |
| Frank-Michael Schleif | Univ. Applied Sciences Würzburg (D) |
| Udo Seiffert | Fraunhofer-Institute IFF Magdeburg (D) |
| Emilio Soria | Univ. Valencia (E) |
| Alessandro Sperduti | Università degli Studi di Padova (I) |
| Jochen Steil | Technische Universität Braunschweig (D) |
| Ruxandra Stoean | University of Craiova (RO) |
| Peter Tino | University of Birmingham (UK) |
| Claude Touzet | Aix-Marseille University (F) |
| Marc Van Hulle | KUL Leuven (B) |
| Alfredo Vellido | Univ. Polit. Catalunya (E) |
| Nathalie Vialaneix | INRA (F) |
| Thomas Villmann | Univ. Applied Sciences Mittweida (D) |
| Heiko Wersing | Honda Research Institute Europe (D) |
| Axel Wismüller | University of Rochester (USA) |
| Dietlind Zühlke | Horn & Company Data Analytics (D) |