Jose Luis Verdegay is Full Professor of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence at the University of Granada (Spain) since 1990. He holds the degrees of Bachelor of Mathematics (1975) and Doctor of Science (1981)
He has been Principal Investigator in numerous regional, national and international research projects subsidized with public funds. He is an Advisory Editor of the International Journal Fuzzy Sets and Systems and member of the Editorial Committees of the International Journal of Uncertainty, Fuzziness and Knowledge-Based Systems (IJUFKS), Fuzzy Optimization and Decision Making, Iranian Journal of Fuzzy Systems and Control and Cybernetics. He also is member of the Program Committee of congresses in his area of specialization (IEEE, IPMU, IFSA…). As far as publications is concerned, by the present time he has been advisor of 21 doctoral theses. He is editor, co-editor or author of 29 books on topics of his specialty and has published more than 375 scientific papers in journals, conferences proceedings and books of his field of interest.
Jose Luis Verdegay has the special teaching category of Guest Professor of the Jose Antonio Echeverria Polytechnic Higher Institute of Havana and the Marta Abreu de las Villas Central University, both of Cuba. He is a “fellow” of the International Fuzzy Systems Association (IFSA), “IEEE Senior Member”, and an Honorary Member of the Academy of Mathematics and Computing of Cuba.
