Fellowships and Awards
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2021 Dennis Gabor Award "for outstanding contributions to engineering applications of neural networks"
2020 Editorial Excellence Award, Springer Nature (as Editor-in-Chief of the Evolving Systems journal)
2019 European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems (ELLIS)
2017 Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) Outstanding Award
2017 IEEE SMC ALMA Competition winner
2016 Distinguished Lecturer, IEEE (for the period 2017-2019)
2015 Fellow of the IEEE
2015 Fellow of the IET (Institute of Engineering and Technology)
2015 Honorary Professor, Technical University, Sofia, Bulgaria
2015 Santander Chair of Excellence, University Carlos III, Madrid, Spain
2014 Fellow Higher Education Academy, UK
2013 Outstanding Service Recognition Award by IEEE and INNS, Dallas, TX, USA
2013 Best paper, IEEE Conference on Cybernetics, CYBCONF2013, Lausanne, Switzerland
2012 Best international collaboration EU project SVETLANA, Moscow, 5 December 2012
2012 Best paper, IEEE Conference on Intelligent Systems, IS12, Sofia, Bulgaria
2009 Best paper, IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence, Nashville, USA
2008 Engineer 2008 Technology + Innovation Special Award, The Royal Society, 3 Oct 2008
2008 Engineer 2008 Technology + Innovation sector award – Aerospace & Defence
2006 Best paper runner up, 2006 IEEE Symposium EFS’06, Ambleside, UK