Francisco José Vico Vela is a scientist and engineer who is a full professor of artificial intelligence at the University of Málaga.

Vico graduated from the University of Málaga with a BA in computer science in 1991 and was the recipient of a doctoral grant, receiving his PhD in 1995.

[8][9] He has advised or co-advised eight PhD theses, led more than 40 research projects as principal investigator,[10] mostly with public funding, and has two patents.

[14] A decade later, Vico led the Melomics project, which was a milestone in the application of artificial intelligence[15][16] to computer music.

ToolboX is a programming environment developed by Vico that adapts modern computer technology to coding education.