Awards

  • Honours and Awards in Papers, Thesis and Projects
    • Juan Manuel Górriz Sáez, Matt Leming, J. Suckling. (2021)

      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 Doctorate Award (Engineering)

      Doctoral Dissertation: A bayesian approach to fatigue damage assessment in composite material

    • Aurora Ramírez Quesada. (2018)

      Primer premio Frances Allen

      For the doctoral dissertation: “Metaheuristic models for decision support in the software construction process”
      Asociación Española para la Inteligencia Artificial

    • Aurora Ramírez Quesada. (2018)

      Extraordinary Doctorate Award (engineering area)

      Doctoral Dissertation: “Metaheuristic models for decision support in the software construction process”

      University of Cordoba

    • V. López, A. Fernandez, S. García, V. Palade, F. Herrera. (2016)

      University of Granada Best Paper Award in the area of Engineering

      V. López, A. Fernández, S. García, V. Palade, F. Herrera. “An Insight into Classification with Imbalanced Data: Empirical Results and Current Trends on Using Data Intrinsic Characteristics”. Information Sciences 250 (2013) 113-141

    • Óscar Cordón, Óscar Ibáñez (2016)

      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.

    • 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

    • Rosa María Campomanes-Álvarez. (2016)

      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)

    • Rosa M. Rodríguez, L. Martínez, F. Herrera (2015)

      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.

    • F.J. Cabrerizo, S. Alonso, E. Herrera-Viedma (2014)

      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).

    • D. Salas, J.M. Górriz, J. Ramírez, F. Segovia (2012)

      University of Granada Best Paper Award in the area of Engineering

      D. Salas, J.M. Górriz, J. Ramírez, F. Segovia. “Feature selection using factor analysis for Alzheimer’s diagnosis using 18F-FDG PET images”. Medical Physics, Vol. 37, No. 11, pp. 6084-6095, 2010.

    • Jorge Casillas (2012)

      University of Granada Best Paper Award in the area of Social Sciences

      J. Casillas, F.J. Martínez-López. “Mining uncertain data with multiobjective genetic fuzzy systems to be applied in consumer behaviour modelling”. Expert Systems with Applications 36:2 (2009) 1645-1659. ISSN 0957-4174. doi:10.1016/j.eswa.2007.11.035.

    • F. Herrera, E. Herrera-Viedma, Luis Martínez (2011)

      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

    • Alberto Fernández, M.J. del Jesus, F. Herrera (2011)

      “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.

    • 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”.

    • 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.

  • Honours and Awards to best paper in conferences
    • Primer premio del Comité de Nuevas Tecnologías (LXXIII Reunión Anual de la Sociedad Española de Neurología)

      Meritxell Valentí Soler; Carmen Jiménez Mesa; Belén Frades Payo; Juan Eloy Arco Martín; María Ascensión Zea Sevilla; Andrés Ortiz García ; Marina Ávila Villanueva; Javier Ramírez Pérez de Inestrosa; Teodoro del Ser Quijano; Juan Manuel Gorriz Saez; Cristóbal Carnero Pardo. “Estudio piloto sobre la valoración automatizada del test del reloj con métodos de aprendizaje profundo”

    • Second prize for the best paper in the General Category at the TAMIDA Symposium 20/21

      Eva Gibaja, Amelia Zafra. “Estudio de estrategias basadas en vecinos para clasificación multi-instancia multi-etiqueta

    • Third prize for the best paper in the General Category at the TAMIDA Symposium 20/21

      Francisco Aragón Royón, Elia Mercado Palomino, Aurelio Ureña Espa, José Manuel Benítez Sánchez. “Aplicación de técnicas de aprendizaje automático para el análisis de datos de acciones de juego en voleibol”

    • International Planning Competition (IPC2020) Winner of the Hierarchical Planning – Partial-Order Track

      Juan Fernández-Olivares, Ignacio Vellido-Expósito, Luis Castillo. “Addressing HTN with Blind Depth First Search

    • 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”

    • 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”

    • “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”

    • Daniel Molina Cabrera (2018)

      IEEE WCCI 2018 Large-scale global optimization competition

      Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, July 2018

    • Francisco Herrera, Álvaro Martínez-Sevilla, Siham Tabik, Rosana Montes, Alberto Castillo Lamas, Teresa Cruz Sánchez, José Policarpo Cruz (2018)

      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

    • Miguel Angel Ortiz Barrios, Antanas Verikas, Chris Nugent, Mark Donnelly, Leo Galway, Macarena Espinilla Estévez, Ian Cleland. (2018)

      Recognition of the most innovative idea at the International Symposium on the Analytic Hierarchy Process.

      “A multi-criteria model for selecting the most suitable classifier for supporting assistive technology adoption in people with dementia”

    • Macarena Espinilla Estévez, Javier Medina, Claire Orr, Shuai Zhang, Chris Nugent, Alberto Salguero (2018)

      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”

    • Best Paper Award, 12th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing and Ambient Intelligence (UCAml 2018)

      Por el trabajo:

      Javier Medina, Claire Orr, Shuai Zhang, Chris Nugent, Alberto Salguero, Macarena Espinilla. “Real-time Recognition of Interleaved Activities Based on Ensemble Classifier of Long Short-Term Memory with Fuzzy Temporal Windows”

    • Daniel Molina Cabrera (2018)

      IEEE WCCI 2018 Competición: Optimización global a gran escala

    • Miguel Angel Ortiz Barrios, Antanas Verikas, Chris Nugent, Mark Donnelly, Leo Galway, Macarena Espinilla Estévez, Ian Cleland. (2018)

      Reconocimiento al trabajo de mejor idea innovadorea en el International Symposium on the Analytic Hierarchy Process 2018

      Por el trabajo:

      Miguel Ángel Ortiz Barrios, Antanas Veikas, Chris Nugent, Mark Donnelly, Leo Galway, Macarena Espinilla, Ian Cleland. “A multi-criteria model for selecting the most suitable classifier for supporting assistive technology adoption in people with dementia”

  • Personal Honours and Awards
    • 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”

      University of Jaen

    • 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)

    • Recognition of the Spanish Association for Artificial Intelligence (AEPIA) for Scientific Career and Promotion of AI

      Asociación Española Para la Inteligencia Artificial (AEPIA)

    • Carlos Nuñez Molina. (2020)

      Extraordinary End-of-Degree Award for the Degree in Computer Engineering

      University of Granada

    • Best Teaching Innovation Project 2016-2019.

      “Accessible and International Multimedia for ALFIN courses (PID53_201617)”

      University of Jaén

    • Fellow Member of the “International fuzzy Systems Association” (IFSA), 2019

    • IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation Outstanding Associate Editor Award

      IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation. IEEE Computational Intelligence Society

    • Best Project for the Promotion of Entrepreneurial Culture 2018/2019.

      “Application to the Projects for the Promotion of Entrepreneurial Culture 2018/2019”

      University of Jaen

    • Granada: City of Science and Innovation 2018, in the category: Scientific Trajectory.

      Granada City Council Award.

    • Fellow Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

      For his contributions to the area of “Genetic and Evolutionary Fuzzy Systems”

    • Acknowledgement for 25 years of Research in Fuzzy Logic and Fuzzy System.

      Spanish Society of Technologies and Fuzzy Logic (ESTYLF)

    • First prize in the “University” phase of the international dissemination competition Three-Minute Thesis.

      Organized by the Coimbra Group of Universities

    • Igor Zwir (2015)

      5th Medical Advances of the Year, St. Louis Post Dispatch, St Louis, MO, US.