UCLM professor José Ángel Olivas is appointed 'honoris causa' by the National University of La Plata in Argentina
The National University of La Plata in Argentina has named José Ángel Olivas Varela a professor at the Higher School of Computer Science of the University of Castilla-La Mancha (UCLM) as doctor 'honoris causa'. The director of the SMILe research group will receive the institution's highest academic distinction in September if the COVID-19 pandemic allows.
The professor at the Higher School of Computer Science of the University of Castilla-La Mancha (UCLM) at the Ciudad Real Campus José Ángel Olivas Varela has been appointed doctor Honorary by the Superior Council of the National University of La Plata (Argentina), at the proposal of the directive council of the Faculty of Informatics of said academic institution. The investiture ceremony for Professor Olivas is scheduled to take place in September if the health conditions caused by the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic allow it.
José Ángel Olivas Varela (Lugo, 1964) has a degree in Philosophy (Logic specialty) from the University of Santiago de Compostela, a master's degree in Knowledge Engineering from the Polytechnic University of Madrid and a doctorate in Computer Engineering from UCLM. Professor of the Department of Technologies and Information Systems of the UCLM, Professor Olivas Varela is director of the research group Soft Management os Internet and Learning (SMILe). His main current lines of research are the use of soft computing techniques for information retrieval, intelligent data analysis and applications in artificial intelligence and knowledge engineering.
In 2001 he was postdoc visiting scholar at the Berkeley Initiative in Soft Computing (BISC) with Lotfi A. Zadeh -creator of Fuzzy Logic-, at the University of California-Berkeley, USA. Since then she continues to actively collaborate with the BISC and with the Artificial Intelligence Center of the International SRI at Stanford University. In addition, Olivas has been a collaborating professor in the Department of Information Systems at ICAI – Comillas Pontifical University of Madrid and coordinator of the Department of Artificial Intelligence at the Antonio de Nebrija Madrid University. Since 1995 he collaborates with INSA (Aerospace Engineering and Services, NASA) in the processing of satellite data on forest fires. Likewise, between 1992 and 1996 he was director of the Information Technology Department of PPM (Tres Cantos, Madrid): Intelligent Systems Consulting for companies such as SOUTHCO, DANONE or ATT.
Professor Juan José Olivas has received, among others, the prize in the category of Research and/or Development of Scientific Products in the XI Competition on the Environment of the Madrid City Council (2002) for his doctoral thesis, the recognition at 25 years of research in Fuzzy logic, or the award for the best scientific article from the Spanish Association for Artificial Intelligence (AEPIA) in 2015 and from the FUZZIEEE-WCCI 2010 congress. He is also the author of the book Effective search for information on the Web and of more than 250 scientific publications.
The National University of La Plata is a public university in the Argentine Republic and is considered one of the two main educational and representative institutions in the country, together with the University of Buenos Aires, as well as one of the most outstanding in Latin America. It has more than 13.500 teachers and 120.000 students. It is in the same section as UCLM in the 'Shanghai ranking' of universities. doctor's degree Honorary It is the highest academic distinction conferred by the National University of La Plata. There are already 120 personalities who have received it, including the physicist Robert Oppenheimer, the writer Jorge Luis Borges or the architect Oscar Niemeyer.
