General Director

e-mail: luis.magdalena@softcomputing.es

Luis Magdalena was born in Madrid in 1964. He received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Telecommunication Engineering, both from the Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain, in 1988 and 1994, respectively.

He has been an Associate Professor in Computer Science at the Department of Applied Mathematics of the Universidad Politecnica de Madrid since 1995, where he was previously Assistant Professor since 1990. In 1998 he Co-founded the Company Daedalus: Data, Decisions and Language (spin-off of UPM) being member of the Council from 1998 to 2001. From 2003 to 2005 he was Deputy Director (and promoter) of the Centro de Domótica Integral (Smart House Research Center), a Research Center of the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. In 2006 he joined the Foundation for the Advancement of Soft Computing/European Center for Soft Computing as Director General.

His research interests include Soft Computing and its application, particularly in the field of robotics and automation. He has been actively involved in research projects funded by National and European programs, as well as by private companies, being project leader in more than ten of those projects.

He is co-author of the book "Genetic Fuzzy Systems: Evolutionary Tuning and Learning of Fuzzy Knowledge Bases" (World Scientific, 2001). He is co-editor of the books "Technologies for Constructing Intelligent Systems" (two volumes, Phisica Verlag, 2002), "Interpretability Issues in Fuzzy Modeling" (Springer, Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing, 2003), and "Accuracy Improvements in Linguistic Fuzzy Modeling" (Springer, Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing, 2003). Hi has also authored over one hundred papers in books, journals and conferences, receiving the Best paper award of the V Congreso Español de Tecnologías y Lógica Fuzzy. He has edited special issues of different journals, being Co-editor-in-chief of "Mathware and Soft Computing", Area Editor for Engineering applications of the "International Journal of Uncertainty, Fuzziness and Knowledge Based Systems", and member of the Editorial Board or regular reviewer for over ten international journals.

From 2001 to 2005 he has been the President of the "European Society for Fuzzy Logic and Technologies". From 2007 he is Vice-president of the International Fuzzy Systems Association. Since 2009 he is member of the Scientific Advisory Committee of the Spanish Research Council. He served as co-chair of the "Eighth international Conference on Information Processing and Management of Uncertainty in Knowledge-Based Systems" (Madrid, 2000), Program co-chair of the "Fourth Conference of the European Society for Fuzzy Logic and Technology" (Barcelona, 2005) and "Twelfth international Conference on Information Processing and Management of Uncertainty in Knowledge-Based Systems" (Malaga, 2008), and Publicity Chair of the "World Conference on Computational Intelligence" (Barcelona 2010). He has been also member of the Program Committee of more than thirty National and International Conferences.