Main Fellowships and Awards

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2021      Dennis Gabor Award "for outstanding contributions to engineering applications of neural networks"

2019      Fellow of the European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems (ELLIS)

2017      Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) Outstanding Award

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

2013      Outstanding Service Recognition Award by IEEE and INNS, Dallas, TX, USA

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Full list of Fellowships and awards can be found if you click here

Chairing International Conferences and IEEE Technical Committees​​

​General (co-) Chair of over 30 International Conferences including the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, IJCNN-2013 , Dallas, TX, USA, 23rd International Conference on Machine Learning Applications (ICMLA–2024), Miami, USA, 32nd International Conf. on Artificial Neural Networks (ICANN-2023), Crete, Greece, 26-29 Sept. 2023, a series of IEEE Conferences on Evolving and Adaptive Intelligent Systems (EAIS) starting in 2006 in the Lake District, UK; IEEE Symposium on Deep Learning (within the Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence, SSCI) starting 2017 in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA and IEEE Symposium on Evolving and Adaptive Learning Systems (EALS) within SSCI starting 2014 in Orlando, FL, USA. Co-chair of workshops at leading conferences such as NeurIPS (2019, 2021, 2022 and 2023) on Human-Centred AI, ICML 2020, ICCV-2023 on Deep Fake Analysis and Detection (with a Challenge on the same topic), PerCom 2022 - 2025 on Pervasive and Resource constrained AI - PerConAI, at DALI2019, ELLIS-HCML 2021 and 2023.​

Chair of the Program/Technical Committee of over a dozen prestigious international conferences, including IJCNN 2016, IJCNN2019, IEEE-SMC 2024 and 2017, FUZZ-IEEE 2014, 2018, 2022 - all within the World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI) bringing together several thousand attendees as well as of several other conferences such as ICANN2022, CYBCONF 2013, Switzerland; INNS-Big Data and Deep Learning 2015, San Francisco and 2018 Bali, Indonesia, IEEE Conference on Intelligent Systems 2014 Warsaw, Poland and 2020, Sofia, Bulgaria and others as detailed in the web page "Conferences and Affiliations"​​​

• Vice President 2017-2020 (elected for two consecutive terms) and Member of the Board of Governors (BoG), International Neural Network Society (INNS), 2014-2023 (elected for three consecutive terms)

• BoG member, Systems, Man and Cybernetics Committee, IEEE, elected twice (2015-2017 and 2022-2024)

• Programme co-Director of Human-Centred Machine Learning - one of the 16 funded programs of ELLIS, since 2019

• Chaired the Standards Committee of the Computational Intelligent Society, IEEE (2010-2011), now - member of it; initiated and chaired the Working Group (WG) on the IEEE Standard on Explainable AI (XAI), P2976

• Founding Chair of Technical Committee on Evolving Intelligent Systems, SMC Society (SMCS) , IEEE, since 2011

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