Aldeida is an Associate Professor and Associate Dean of Engagement and Impact at the Faculty of Information Technology, Monash University in Australia. Aldeida’s research is in the area of search-based software engineering (SBSE), with a particular focus on what makes software engineering problems (design, testing, program repair) hard to optimise and designing approaches that make it easier to apply SBSE techniques to new problems. Aldeida has published more than 70 papers at top AI, optimisation and software engineering venues, served as PC member and organising committee at both SE and optimisation/AI conferences, such as ASE, ICSE, GECCO, SSBSE, ISSTA, IJCAI, etc., is in the editorial board of JSS and EMSE, and a reviewer for journals such as JSS, IEEE TSE, IEEE TEC, etc. Aldeida has attracted more than $2.5 Million in competitive research funding and was awarded the prestigious Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA fellowship) from the Australian Research Council.