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Dra. Patricia Melin

Patricia Melin received the Doctor in Since degree (Doctor habilitatus) in computer science from the Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland. She has
been a Professor of computer science in the Graduate Division, Tijuana Institute of Technology, Tijuana, Mexico, since 1998. She is currently the Director
of the graduate studies in computer science and the Head of the Research Group of Hybrid Neural Intelligent System, since 2000. She belongs to the Mexican
Research System with level III. She has published over 346 papers, 9 authored books, and 16 edited books. Her current research interests are in modular
neural networks, pattern recognition, type-2 neuro-fuzzy, and neuro-genetic fuzzy hybrid approaches. She is currently the Chair of the Task Force on Hybrid
Intelligent Systems of Neural Networks Technical Committee of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society and is the Founding Chair of the Mexican Chapter
of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society. Currently, she is the President of HAFSA (Hispanic American Fuzzy Systems Association) and a Member of the
IEEE Neural Network Technical Committee. She has served as a Guest Editor of several Special Issues in the past, in journals: Applied Soft Computing,
Intelligent Systems, Information Sciences, Non-Linear Studies, JAMRIS, Fuzzy Sets and Systems, and Engineering Letters. She is associate editor of several
journals, such as the IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, Journal of Information Sciences, and belongs to the Editorial Board of
several important journals, like the Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems.
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