His research interests mix the whole spectrum of bio-inspired metaheuristics with electronic CAD, and selected topics in computational intelligence, games, and multi-agent systems. His activities focus on developing techniques able to achieve “good” solutions while requiring an “acceptable” amount of resources, with main applications in real, industrial problems. Squillero is a member of the “IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Games Technical Committee”. He organized the “EvoHOT” workshops on evolutionary hardware optimization techniques, and he is currently a member of the editorial board of “Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines”. He is the coordinator of “EvoApplications” for 2015. Since 1997, he published 3 books (one didactic); about 20 journal articles, 10 book chapters, and more than 100 papers in conference proceedings. He also edited a dozen books.