Over 40 keynote and plenary talks, including:

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• International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, IJCNN-2024 within the 2024 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI-2024), Yokohama, Japan, 1-5 July 2024

• 24th International Conference on Engineering Applications of Neural Networks, EANN-2023, León, Spain, 14 – 17 June, 2023

• 21st International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications, ICMLA 2022, 12-15 December 2022, Nassau, The Bahamas

• First Intern. Workshop on Deep Learning in Pervasive Computing (PerDL) within IEEE Intern. Conf. on Pervasive Computing, PerCom-2021, Kassel, Germany, 22-26 March 2021

• 9th International Conference on Computational Data and Social Networks, Dallas, TX, USA, 11-13 December 2020

• 2020 IEEE Conference on Evolving and Adaptive Intelligent Systems, EAIS 2020, Bari, Italy, 27-29 May 2020

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and others as detailed in the "Keynotes and Talks" web page (to get there go to "More > Keynotes and Talks")  

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IEEE Distinguished Lectures

• "Towards Anthropomorphic Machine Learning: How to get Fast, Interpretable Deep Learning", Santa Clara, CA, USA, 11 December 2019

• “Autonomous Learning for Autonomous Systems”, Ottawa, Canada, 26 September 2018, organised by the joint CIS/SMC chapter of IEEE and Ottawa Machine Learning and AI group

• “Learning Autonomously from Big Data” on 19 October 2017, Cancun, Mexico

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Dozens of invited talks, including 

• European Space Agency, 21 January 2026

• JPL-NASA, 1 December 2025

• University of Helsinki, Finland, 24 October 2025

• Computer Vision Centre (CVC) - Barcelona, Spain, 31 March 2023

• Facebook, virtual/online, 17 May 2021

• Technical University of Munich and German Aerospace Agency, DLR, 24 September 2021

• Facebook, Menlo Park, 12 December 2019

• Ford Motor Co. Research and Innovation, Palo Alto, 10 December 2019

• CEPSA, Madrid, Spain, 30 August 2019

• Nature (Springer journal), London, 1 May 2018

• Ford R&D, Palo Alto, CA, USA, 12 July 2017;

• University of California at Los Angeles, UCLA, CA, USA, 18 July 2017;

• University of Central Florida , Tallahassee, FL, USA, 12 May 2017;

• University of Florida , Gainesville, FL, 21 April 2016;

• Chair of Excellence talk, Carlos III University , Madrid, 3 June 2015;

• University of Oxford, UK, 4 May 2009

• Honeywell R&D, Advanced Control Applications Team, Phoenix, AZ, USA, 30 March, 2009

• Evolving Systems - a short course presented at the University of Applied Sciences, Wolfenbuettel-Braunschweig, Germany, 11-17 March 2007

• University of Campinas, UNICAMP, Campinas, SP, Brazil, 27 September 2005

• Ford R&D, Dearborn, MI, USA, 2005

• Dow Chemicals R&D, Midland, MI, USA, 2005

• University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA, 2005

• Department of Engineering Science, Oxford University, 2000

• Control Laboratory, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands, 1997

• Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium, 1997

• Hans-Knoell Institute, Jena, Germany, 1995

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and others as detailed in the "Keynotes and Talks" web page (to get there go to "More > Keynotes and Talks")