Awards

IFSA fellow

International Fuzzy Systems Association

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)

The Prof. Ram Kumar Educational Data Mining Test of Time Award

International EDM Society

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

National Prize “Young Computer Researchers”

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

IDEAL Award, Jaén

Research Category

Prize for Research Excellence UGR-Caja Rural

Engineering Area, University of Granada.

Medal of Andalusia

Awarded by the Junta de Andalucía.

Da Ruan Award. In FLINS 2016

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

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

Extraordinary Doctorate Award (Engineering)

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

Primer premio Frances Allen

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

Extraordinary Doctorate Award (engineering area)

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

University of Cordoba

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

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.

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

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

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)

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)

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.

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).

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.

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.

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

“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.

EUSFLAT Best PhD Award

“Forensic Identification by Craniofacial Superimposition using Soft Computing”. Author: PhD Oscar Ibáñez. Advisors: O. Cordón y S. Damas.

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.

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”

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”

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”

IEEE WCCI 2018 Large-scale global optimization competition

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, July 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

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”

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”

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”

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”

IEEE WCCI 2018 Competición: Optimización global a gran escala

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”

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”

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”

Prize for the best paper presented at II Workshop on Big Data and Scalable Data Analytics (BigDADE 2018)

A.M. García-Vico, C.J. Carmona, P. González, M.J. del Jesus. “Una primera aproximación para la extracción de patrones emergentes en flujos continuos de datos”