Extraordinary Doctorate Award (Engineering)
Doctoral Dissertation: A bayesian approach to fatigue damage assessment in composite material
Google Research Scholar Programme, Google
Exploring new ways to support faculty research (Proyecto: SignNet: Towards democratizing content accessibility for the deaf by aligning multi-modal sign representations)
2020 ISFRI Prize, Annual Congress of the International Society of Forensic Radiology and Imaging (ISFRI’20)
Gómez, O., Mesejo, P., Ibáñez, O., Valsecchi, A., Cerezo, A., Pérez, J.M., Alemań, I. and Cordón, O. “Automatic segmentation of skeletal structures in X-ray images using deep learning for comparative radiography”
First Prize CAEPIA 2018 in Artificial Intelligence App Competition
Francisco Herrera, Álvaro Martínez-Sevilla, Siham Tabik, Rosana Montes, Alberto Castillo Lamas, Teresa Cruz Sánchez, José Policarpo Cruz. “MonuMAI: una app para incrementar el valor social del patrimonio-arquitectónico andaluz”
“Best paper award” 6th Workshop on Engineering Applications – Applied Computer Sciences in Engineering (WEA2019)
Juan Julián Merelo Guervós, Juan Luis Jiménez Laredo, Pedro A. Castillo, José Mario García Valdez, Sergio Rojas Galeano. “Scaling in Concurrent Evolutionary Algorithms”
3rd prize for the best student paper, presented at the CAEPIA 2021 general session
Rafael Barbudo, Sebastián Ventura, José Raúl Romero. “AutoML para la composición de workflows diversos mediante programación genética gramatical”
Best student paper, presented at the CAEPIA 2018 general session
Rafael Barbudo, José Raúl Romero, Sebastián Ventura. “Aprendizaje automático con programación genética gramatical para la detección de patrones de diseño”
Best Paper Award. 9th Annual Congress of the International Society of Forensic Radiology and Imaging (ISFRI’20)
O. Gómez, P. Mesejo, O. Ibáñez, A. Valsecchi, A. Cerezo, J.M. Pérez, I. Alemán, O. Cordón. “Automatic segmentation of skeletal structures in X-ray images using deep learning for comparative radiography”
Frances Allen “Best PhD Thesis Award” Accesit. CAEPIA 2016.
Doctoral Dissertation: “New developments in craniofacial superimposition based on Soft Computing and Computer Vision”
Conferencia de la Asociación Española para la Inteligencia Artificial (CAEPIA 2016)
Andrew P. Sage Best Transactions Paper Award
A New Consensus Model for Group Decision Making Problems with Non Homogeneous Experts. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems 44:4 (2014) 494-498.
(IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society)
15th SEPLN Prize for the Best Thesis in Natural Language Processing
Doctoral Dissertation:”Sentiment Analysis in Spanish”
Sociedad Española para el Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural
Extraordinary Doctorate Award
Doctoral Dissertation: “Sentimental analysis in Spanish”
University of Jaen
Extraordinary Doctorate Award (engineering area)
Doctoral Dissertation: “Metaheuristic models for decision support in the software construction process”
University of Cordoba
Primer premio Frances Allen
For the doctoral dissertation: “Metaheuristic models for decision support in the software construction process”Asociación Española para la Inteligencia Artificial
Hojjat Adeli Award for Outstanding Contribution in Neural Systems
Ensemble deep learning on large, mixed-site fMRI datasets in autism and other tasks. M Leming, JM Górriz, J. Suckling. International journal of neural systems 30 (07), 2050012.
World Scientific
Extraordinary Doctoral Thesis Award, academic year 2016/2017
University of Granada
Best Project for the Promotion of Entrepreneurial Culture 2020/2021 (Accesit)
“Generation of new spaces for active entrepreneurship in the field of industrial design, digital communication and the development of a personal brand”
Best Project for the Promotion of Entrepreneurial Culture 2018/2019.
“Application to the Projects for the Promotion of Entrepreneurial Culture 2018/2019”
Best Teaching Innovation Project 2016-2019.
“Accessible and International Multimedia for ALFIN courses (PID53_201617)”
University of Jaén
Extraordinary End-of-Degree Award for the Degree in Computer Engineering
IFSA fellow
International Fuzzy Systems Association
IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation Outstanding Associate Editor Award
IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation. IEEE Computational Intelligence Society
Acknowledgement for 25 years of Research in Fuzzy Logic and Fuzzy System.
Spanish Society of Technologies and Fuzzy Logic (ESTYLF)
Fellow Member of the “International fuzzy Systems Association” (IFSA), 2019
Best Paper Award, 12th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing and Ambient Intelligence (UCAml 2018)
“Real-time Recognition of Interleaved Activities Based on Ensemble Classifier of Long Short-Term Memory with Fuzzy Temporal Windows”
CAEPIA 2018 Best Student Article Award in II Workshop on Big data and Scalable Data Analysis (BigDADE 2018)
“Smart Data: Filtrado de Ruido para Big Data”
CAEPIA 2018 Award for the Best Paper in III Workshop of Metaheuristics, Evolutionary and Bioinspired Algorithms (MAEB 2018)
“Metaheurísticas constructivas para Car Sequencing Problem con Flotas de vehículos especiales”
Outstanding Doctoral Award in Technical Sciences (2010-2011). University of Granada, for the thesis:
“Optimización Evolutiva Multi-Objetivo de Medidas de Complejidad e Interpretabilidad Semántica para Sistemas Basados en Reglas Lingüísticas”. Advisors: Rafael Alcalá and Francisco Herrera.
Outstanding Doctoral Award in Technical Sciences (2011-2012). University of Granada, for the thesis
“Metaheurísticas Multi-Objetivo para el equilibrado de líneas de montaje en automoción: optimización conjunta de tiempo y espacio”. Advisors: Rafael Alcalá and Francisco Herrera.
IFSA Outstanding Applications of Fuzzy Technology Award
O Cordón, s. Damas, O. Ibáñez, J. Santamaría, I. Alemán, M. Botella, F. Navarro “Forensic Identification System Using Craniofacial Superimposition Based on Guzzy Sets and Evolutionary Algorithms”.
2nd Prize “Frances Allen” for the Thesis:
“Forensic Identification by Craniofacial Superimposition using Soft Computing”. Author: PhD. Blanca Rosario Campomanes-Álvarez. Advisors: O. Cordón, S. Damas and O. Ibáñez
EUSFLAT Best PhD Award
“Forensic Identification by Craniofacial Superimposition using Soft Computing”. Author: PhD Oscar Ibáñez. Advisors: O. Cordón y S. Damas.
5th Medical Advances of the Year, St. Louis Post Dispatch, St Louis, MO, US.
Fellow Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
For his contributions to the area of “Genetic and Evolutionary Fuzzy Systems”
Best Paper Award at the International Conference in “Intelligent Systems Design and Applications” (ISDA)
“Consensus with linguistic preferences in web 2.0 communities”.
CAEPIA 2013 Award for de Best Methodological Paper in Workshop of Metaheuristics, Evolutionary and Bioinspired Algorithms (MAEB 2013)
“MOPNAR: Algoritmo Evolutivo Multi-Objetivo para Extraer Reglas de Asociación Cuantitativas Positivas y Negativas”
Best Paper Award in “IEEE International Conference on System Science and Engineering”
“A web information system to improve the digital library service quality”.
Best Paper Award at FMAM 2011 IEEE Computational Intelligence Society 5th IEEE International Workshop on Genetic and Evolutionary Fuzzy Systems
“Body Posture Recognition by means of a Genetic Fuzzy Finite State Machine”.
Best Application Paper Award at the VIII Spanish Congress on Metaheuristics, Evolutionary and Bioinspired Algorithms (MAEB 2012)
“Análisis del NSGA-II para el TSALBP-1/3 cuando existe variación de demanda en una producción mixta”.
Best Paper Award at the International Ibero-American Conference IADIS
“Sr-Reja. Sistema de Recomendación Híbrido Georreferenciado”.
Best Contribution Awards in the 16th International Conference on Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning (IDEAL-2015)
“Addressing Overlapping in Classification with Imbalanced Datasets: A First Multi-Objective Approach for Feature and Instance Selection”.
First prize of the CAEPIA 2018 Competition of Apps based on Artificial Intelligence by the App MonuMAI
MonuMAI: an app to increase the social value of Andalusian architectural heritage
Best Student Paper Award in the International Conference on Machine Learning and Cybernetics.
Tianjin (China) el 14-17 Julio 2013: “Managing Hesitant Heterogeneous Information in Decision Making”.
Best Paper Award at the International Conference on Hybrid Intelligent Systems HIS’08
“Classification of Gene Expression Profiles: Comparison of K-Means and Expectation Maximization Algorithms”.
Premio “Top Cited Article 2005-2010” de la revista Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence por el artículo: A genetic rule weighting and selection process for fuzzy control of heating, ventilating and air conditioning systems Copia
Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence 18:3 (2005) 279-296
Herbert Simon Award 2014:
F.J. Cabrerizo, S. Alonso, E. Herrera-Viedma. “A consensus model for group decision making problems with unbalanced fuzzy linguistic information” International Journal of Information Technology & Decision Making 8(1), pp. 109-131 (2009).
IEEE Computational Intelligence Society: Award for Outstanding Article
N. Bova, O. Ibañez, O. Cordón. “Image segmentation using Extended Topological Active Nets optimized by Scatter Search”. IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine 8:1 (2013) 16-32.
“Lofti A. Zadeh” International Prize by the “International Fuzzy Systems Association (IFSA)”:
Alberto Fernández, M.J. del Jesús, F. Herrera . “Hierarchical Fuzzy Rule Based Classification System with Genetic Rule Selection for Imbalanced Datasets”. International Journal of Approximate Reasoning, Vol. 50, Issue 3 (2009), 561-577.
Best Article Award published in ‘IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems (2008):
F. Herrera, E. Herrera-Viedma, Luis Martinez. “A fuzzy linguistic methodology to deal with unbalanced linguistic term sets” Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, vol. 16, n.2 (2008) 354-370
Best Article Award published in ‘IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems’
Rosa M. Rodríguez, L. Martínez, F. Herrera. “Hesitant Fuzzy Linguistic Term Sets for Decision Making”. IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, Volume: 20 , Issue: 1 (Feb. 2012 ) 109-119.
IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Early Career Award
Diploma in recognition of scientific merit
Faculty of Information and Documentation, University of Granada.
Granada: City of Science and Innovation 2018, in the category: Scientific Trajectory.
Granada City Council Award.
IDEAL Award, Jaén
Research Category
First prize in the “University” phase of the international dissemination competition Three-Minute Thesis.
Organized by the Coimbra Group of Universities
AEPIA Prize 2013
Recognition by the Spanish Association of Artificial Intelligence of a scientific career in Artificial Intelligence.
International Mamdani Prize for Soft Computing.
Spanish Society of Computer Science (SCIE)
Da Ruan Award. In FLINS 2016
Howard Hughes Medical Institute Award in Recognition of Dedicated Service and Successful Research in Microbiology
2º Premio Frances Allen
Título de la tesis: “Forensic Identification by Craniofacial Superimposition using Soft Computing”. Autora: Dr. Blanca Rosario Campomanes-Álvarez. Directores: O. Cordón, O. Ibáñez y S. Damas.
5th Avances médicos del año, St. Louis Post Dispatch, St Louis, MO, US.
