On July 21st, 2022, Dr. Carlos A. Coello Coello received the prestigious 2021 IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Evolutionary Computation Pioneer Award in Padova, ITaly, during the 2022 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI'2022).

The award was delivered by Prof. Jim Keller, who was the President of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society at the time. Below, you can see some photos of the ceremony.