IEEE Distinguished Lectures

• "Towards Anthropomorphic Machine Learning: How to get Fast, Interpretable Deep Learning", Intel, 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

 

Keynote talks 

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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

• 19th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence: Methodology, Systems, and Applications, AIMSA 2022, 8-10 September 2022, Varna, Bulgaria

• 29th Intern. Conf. on Syst., Signals and Image Proc., IWSSIP'22, 1-3 June 2022, Sofia, Bulgaria

• 13th Intern. Conf. on Comp. Collective Intel., ICCCI 2021, Rhodes, Greece, 29 Sept–1 Oct 2021

• 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

• 2020 IEEE Conf. on Evolving and Adaptive Intel. Syst., EAIS 2020, Bari, Italy, 27-29 May 2020

• Joint Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers, 14-16 Dec. 2020, Bangkok, Thailand

• 19th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence: Methodology, Systems, and Applications, AIMSA-2020, 7-9 Sept. 2020, Varna, Bulgaria

• ICAR-CNR Workshop, Taormina, Sicily, Italy, 17-19 June 2019

• IEEE Intern. Conf. on Innovations in Intel. Syst & Applic., INISTA, Sofia, Bulgaria, 3-5 July 2019

• 15th Intern. Conference on AI Applications and Innovations, AIAI and 20th Intern. Conference on Engineering Applications of Neural Networks, EANN 2019, Crete, Greece, 24-26 May 2019

• Intern. Conf on Advances in Neural Nets & Applic, ANNA’18, Varna, Bulgaria,15-17 Sept 2018

• 18th Annual Workshop on Comput. Intelligence, UKCI2018, Nottingham, UK, 5-7 Sept 2018

• The 12th Intern. Workshop on Fuzzy Logic and Applic., WILF2018, Genoa, Italy, 6-8 Sept 2018

• 19th Intern. Confer. on Eng. Applic of Neural Networks, EANN 2018, Bristol, UK, 3-5 Sept 2018

• 17th Intern. Conf. on AI and Soft Computing, ICAISC 2018, Zakopane, Poland, 3-7 June, 2018

• 14th Intern. Conf. on AI Applications and Innovations, AIAI, Rhodes, Greece, 25-27 May 2018

• 20th Intern. Conf. on Enterprise Info Syst., ICEIS2018, Madeira, Portugal, 21-24 March 2018

• 36th North American Fuzzy Info Proc. Society’s Annual Conf., Cancun, Mexico, 16-18 Oct 2017

• 18th Intern. Conf. on Eng. Applic of Neural Nets, EANN 2017, Athens, Greece, 25-27 Aug 2017

• 2017 International Conf. on Intelligent Computing, ICICI2017, Liverpool, UK, 7-10 Aug. 2017

• The 3rd International Conference on Cybernetics, CYBCONF2017, Exeter, UK, 21-23 June 2017

• 2017 IEEE Conf. on Evolving and Adaptive Intel. Syst., EAIS2017, Slovenia, 1-2 June, 2017

• 8th Intern. Conf. on Comp. Collective Intel., ICCCI 2016, Khalkidhiki, Greece, 28-30 Sept 2016

• 17th Intern. Conf. on Eng. Applic. of Neural Nets, EANN 2016, Aberdeen, UK, 2-5 Sept. 2016

• 7th IEEE Intelligent Systems Conference, IS’14, Warsaw, Poland, 24-26 September 2014

• 10th Intern. Conf. on AI Applic. and Innovations, AIAI, Rhodes, Greece, 19-22 Sept. 2014

• 12th Conf. on NeuroComputing and Evolving Intel., NCEI, Auckland, New Zealand, 8 June 2012

• International Joint Conference on Computational Intelligence, Paris, France, 24-26 Oct. 2011

• Intern. Conf. on Automatics and Informatics John Atanassoff, Sofia, Bulgaria, 3 - 7 Oct., 2010

• IFAC Conf. on Energy Saving Control in Plants and Buildings, Bansko, Bulgaria, 2-5 Oct. 2006

• 7th Symposium on Intelligent Automation, Sao Luis, Brazil, 18-23 September 2005

• 10th International Workshop Bioprocess Systems'97, Sofia, Bulgaria, 14-16 October, 1997

• 8th International Workshop Bioprocess Engineering'95, Sofia, Bulgaria, 2-5 October, 1995

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Invited talks presented at

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• Chalmers University, Goteborg, Sweden, 22 January 2024

• 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

• University of Balearic Islands, Spain, 23 July 2019

• University of Paderborn, Germany, 10 January 2019

• CEPSA, Madrid, Spain, 30 August 2019

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

• DARPA, Washington DC, USA, 3 March 2018

• North Carolina A&T University, USA, 26 February 2018

• Exeter University , UK, 4 December 2017;

• 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;

• 2012 IEEE Conf. on Evolving and Adaptive Intelligent Systems, EAIS-2012, 16-17 May 2012, Madrid, Spain

• Towards Autonomous Learning Systems: Joint Model Structure and Parameter Identification based on Recursive Density Estimation, Moscow State University - MGU, Moscow, Russia, 10-12 July 2011

• Special International Conference on Complex Systems, COSY-2011, 16-19 September 2011, Ohrid, FYROM

• The First UK Symposium on Cognitive Robotics and Learning, Manchester, UK, 20 October 2010

• The University of Birmingham, 27 September 2010 on 'Towards Dynamic Cognitive Systems and Evolving Intelligence'

• Sense and Avoid in UAS - state of the art and new solutions, 8th Unmanned Combat Aerial Vehicles 2009, UCAV, London, 22-23 June, 2009

• New approaches to the Sense and Avoid problem for UAS, Location and Tracking Network meeting on Air Traffic Management, Farnborough, UK, 4 June, 2009

• On-line Identification of Non-linear Systems with Evolving Structure, Control Engineering Series, Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK, 4 May 2009

• Self-calibrating and self-maintaining Intelligent/soft sensors for the Advanced process industries, Honeywell R&D, Advanced Control Applications Team, Phoenix, AZ, USA, 30 March, 2009

• Evolving Intelligent Systems: Concepts, Applications and Opportunities for Security Systems of the Future, Annual Christmas Conf. of the Faculty of Science and Technology, Lancaster University, 16 Dec. 2008

• UAV collision avoidance - state of the art and possible solutions, VTOL UAV, Helitech, Imperial War Museum, Duxford, near Cambridge, 4 October 2007, an invited talk

• Extracting knowledge from data streams, Department of Computer Systems, University of Birmingham, 25 June 2007

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

• Analysing Streaming Data, Royal Statistical Society, 2 May, 2007

• Adaptive Routeing and Collision Avoidance, BAE Systems, 18 October, 2006

• Cooperative Autonomous Systems with Evolvable Intelligence, QinetiQ, 28 February, 2006

• Computational Intelligence Research Group, Bournemouth University (2006)

• 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

• Evolvable Intelligent Systems, University of Essex, Colchester, UK, 2005

• Royal Military College of Science, Cranfield University, Srivenham, UK, 2004

• Goldsmith College, University of London, 2002

• Centre of Information Systems, Coimbra, Portugal, 2002

• 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