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INSTITUTO TECNOLOGICO DE TIJUANA

Professor Patricia Melin

She holds the Doctor in Science degree (Doctor Habilitatus D.Sc.) in Computer Science from the Polish Academy of Sciences (with the Dissertation “Hybrid Intelligent Systems for Pattern Recognition using Soft Computing”). She is a Professor of Computer Science in the Graduate Division, Tijuana Institute of Technology, Tijuana, Mexico, since 1998. In addition, she is serving as Director of Graduate Studies in Computer Science and head of the research group on Computational Intelligence (2000-present). Currently, she is Vice President of HAFSA (Hispanic American Fuzzy Systems Association) and Program Chair of International Conference FNG’05. She is also Program Chair of the IFSA 2007 World Congress to held in Cancun, Mexico. Prof. Melin is the founding Chair of the Mexican Chapter of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society. She is Vice Chair of the IEEE Neural Network Technical Committee (2007), she also belongs to the IEEE CIS Educational Committee, the Committee of Women in Computational Intelligence of the IEEE and to the New York Academy of Sciences. She is member of NAFIPS, IFSA, and IEEE. She belongs to the Mexican Research System with level II. Her research interests are in Type-2 Fuzzy Logic, Modular Neural Networks, Pattern Recognition, Fuzzy Control, Neuro-Fuzzy and Genetic-Fuzzy hybrid approaches. She has published over 50 journal papers, 5 authored books, 6 edited books, and 160 papers in conference proceedings. She has served as Guest Editor of several Special Issues in the past, like “Soft Computing for Control of Non-Linear Dynamical Systems” in the Journal of Applied Soft Computing, 2003 (Elsevier), “Hybrid Intelligent Systems” in the Journal of Non-Linear Studies, 2004 (I&S Publishers), and “Soft Computing for Modeling, Simulation, and “Control of Non-Linear Dynamical Systems” in the Journal of Intelligent Systems, 2005 (Wiley).

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