Mike Preuss is associate professor at LIACS, the Computer Science department of Leiden University. He is a member of the interdisciplinary research programme Society, Artificial Intelligence and Life Sciences (SAILS). He works in AI, namely game AI, natural computing, and social media computing.

His research interests focus on the field of evolutionary algorithms for real-valued problems, namely on multi-modal and multi-objective optimization, and on computational intelligence and machine learning methods for computer games. He is also involved in Social Media Computing, and he was publications chair of the multi-disciplinary MISDOOM conference 2019. He is associate editor of the IEEE ToG journal and has been member of the organizational team of several conferences in the last years, in various functions, as general co-chair, proceedings chair, competition chair, workshops chair.