Highly Cited Researcher in the years 2018, 2019, and 2020.
He was born in Jódar (Jaén) in 1983. He has been an Associate Professor in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence since 2017 and has been teaching since 2016 at the School of Civil Engineering and at the School of Computer Science and Telecommunications Engineering at the University of Granada. He is a member of the research group Soft Computing and Intelligent Information Systems.
He has received the University of Granada–Caja Rural de Granada Award for Excellence in Research 2017 for the best publication in the area of Technical Sciences, the Andrew P. Sage Award 2016 for the best article published in IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems, and the Herbert Simon Award 2014 for the best article published in the Journal of Information Technology and Decision Making. His research focuses on topics related to computational intelligence, digital libraries, web quality evaluation, fuzzy logic, computing with words, group and multi-criteria decision making, and bibliometrics. In these areas, he has published more than 40 papers in international journals and more than 70 papers in national and international conferences.
He is an Associate Editor of the international journal Journal of Intelligent and Fuzzy Systems, a member of the Editorial Board of the international journal Journal of Universal Computer Science, and a reviewer for several international journals such as Fuzzy Sets and Systems, IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, and Information Sciences.
According to Clarivate Analytics’ Web of Science, his scientific output has received more than 2,700 citations, with an h-index of 24. In 2018 and 2019, he was identified by Clarivate Analytics as one of the Highly Cited and most influential researchers in his field, currently having 15 highly cited papers according to the Essential Science Indicators of Clarivate Analytics.