April 25 – Enrique H., TOP AI researcher, visits us

Enrique Herrera Viedma is one of the most outstanding researchers in the field of Artificial Intelligence worldwide. He will be at the Escuela Superior de Informática de Ciudad Real on Monday, April 25, 2022 and will give a conference entitled: the day to day of an expert in artificial intelligence, starting at 12 noon in the Assembly Hall.

I will introduce some aspects of the history of AI, its definition, examples of the use of AI, some analysis of its social and economic impact, the fears it provokes, and the challenges in the field of AI and its applications. 

He was born in Jódar (Jaén) in 1969. He has been a professor of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence since 2007 and teaches at the Faculty of Communication and Documentation and at the ETS of Computer and Telecommunications Engineering of the University of Granada 1994 since.

He has been Vice Dean of Research at the Faculty of Communication and Documentation, is a member of the "Soft Computing and Intelligent Systems" research group, director of the multidisciplinary research group SECABA Lab, and has recently been elected a member of the governing team of the International Society IEEE System Man and Cybernetics.

He has received the Extraordinary Prize for Doctoral Thesis 1996, on two occasions the Prize for Works of Excellence from the University of Granada, and the Social Council Award for Young Researchers 2005. His research focuses on topics such as Computational Intelligence, digital libraries, web quality assessment, Web 2.0, Internet information retrieval, recommendation systems, fuzzy logic, computing with words, group and multi-criteria decision making, bibliometrics, and data analysis in social networks, in which he has published more than 130 papers in international ISI journals, directed more than 20 projects research and 15 doctoral theses.

He is Associate Editor in a good number of international ISI journals such as Information Sciences, Knowledge-Based Systems, Applied Soft Computing, Soft Computing, Fuzzy Optimization and Decision Making, Technological and Economic Development of Economy, Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, and IEEE Transactions. on System Man and Cybernetics: Systems, and member of the "referees" committee of many other ISI journals such as Fuzzy Sets and Systems or Int. Journal of Information Technology and Decision Making.

According to Thomson Reuters Web of Science, his scientific production has received more than 8000 citations, presenting an H index of 47, making him the second most cited Spanish researcher in the area of ​​Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence. In 2013 he published an analysis in the prestigious journal Science on the new role of libraries in the Information Society; and in 2014 he was identified by Thomson Reuters as one of the most influential and Highly Cited Scientists in his field, currently presenting more than 20 highly cited papers according to Thomson Reuters.