Professor Oscar Cordón from European Centre for Soft Computing, Mieres, Asturias, Spain gave a series of invited lectures on Genetic Fuzzy Systems and Fuzzy Knowledge Extraction by Evolutionary Algorithms to the students and research workers of our Faculty. The lectures were funded by Wrocław Information Technology Initiative (WITI) is a program sponsored by Wroclaw Council and Wroclaw University of Technology. The aim of the program was to promote information technologies in Wrocław. The initiator of the visit was Dr. Bogdan Trawiński.


Prof. Cordon’s short bio

Oscar Cordón received his M.S. degree (1994) and his Ph.D. (1997) both in Computer Science from the University of Granada, Spain, where he has been professor at the Dept. of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence. Since April 2006, he is the Principal Researcher of the "Applications of Fuzzy Logic and Evolutionary Algorithms" research unit at the European Centre for Soft Computing, located in Mieres, Asturias. Last December, 2008, he received the Full Professor accreditation from the Spain’s National Quality Evaluation Agency.

Prof. Cordón has a wide international experience in the area of soft computing, specifically in the fundamentals and applications of evolutionary algorithms and other metaheuristics, as well as in fuzzy systems. He has published more than 210 peer-reviewed scientific publications, including a co-authored book on genetic fuzzy systems and 47 SCI-JCR-indexed journal papers. In February, 5, 2009, his publications had received 917 citations, carrying an h-index of 17, and being included in the 1% of most cited researchers in the world (source: Thomson’s Web of Knowledge; h-index=27 in Google Scholar). He has participated in 24 national and European research projects and contracts, coordinating 9 of them. Dr. Cordón is associate editor and editorial board member of six scientific journals. He also created the Genetic Fuzzy Systems Task Force, Fuzzy Systems Technical Committee, IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, in 2004 and chaired it till 2007. Moreover, he is a member of the IPC of more than 80 conferences and frequently acts as a reviewer for more than 20 international journals.

His current main research interests are in the fields of soft computing for forensic anthropology and medical imaging; genetic fuzzy systems; soft computing and visual science maps; and evolutionary computation, ant colony optimization and other metaheuristics.