Visiting Positions:

 

• 2021-2022                        Visiting Fellow, Institute of Advanced Studies, University of Loughborough, UK

• July 2019                          Visiting Professor, University of Balearic Islands, Spain

• Jan 2019                           Visiting Professor, University of Paderborn, Germany

• July 2017                          Visiting Professor, University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) , USA

• April 2016; May 2017       Visiting Professor, University of Florida , USA

• March-Sept 2015              Santander Chair of Excellence, University Carlos III , Madrid, Spain

• May 2014                          Visiting Professor, Ecole de Mines, Douai, France

• April 2014                         Visiting Professor, IFRN - Campus Natal/Zona Norte , Brazil

• Feb 2012-now                   Visiting Professor, Sofia Technical University , Bulgaria (on Erasmus+)

• Feb 2010                           Visiting Professor, University Carlos III, Madrid , Spain (invited short course)

• April 2007                         Visiting Professor, University of Braunschweig, Germany (ditto)

• Dec 2006                           Visiting Fellowship, Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria

• Sept 2005                          Visiting Fellowship, UNICAMP, University of Campinas , SP, Brazil

• Jan-Dec 1997                     Visiting Research Fellow, Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium

• June-July 1996                   Visiting Research Fellow, Hans Knoell Institute , Jena, Germany

• June 1995                          Visiting Research Associate, University of Hannover , Germany

 

Hosting visiting Researchers (for stays between 3 and 12 months)

• Prof. Cristiano Castro, 2023-2024, 6 months from University of Minas Gerais, Brazil  

• Dr Goran Andonovski, 2024, 6 months from Univerity of Ljubljana, Slovenia

• Ivica Obadic, Explainable Earth Observation deep learning models, 2023 from TU Munich and DLR

• Dr Bruno Costa, ‘Evolving Hierarchical Multistage Fuzzy Inference Systems and Its Applications in Industry’, 2013 from Brazil (moved to Ford's Greenfield Lab at Palo Alto, then Facebook, Menlo Park and now Google, LA, all in CA, USA)

• Dr. Zhaoxu Yang, Assistant Prof. at Xian Jiaotong University, China, 2019-2020 (12 months)

• Prof. Rodrigo Siqueira, from Natal, Brazil, 2017-2018  (4 months)

• Prof. Rong Haijun, Learning based on correntropy, 2016-2017 (12 months), from China

• Dr. Xiaofeng Wang, Deep Learning, 2016, from China

• Dr Dejan Petelin, ‘Gaussian Processes’, 2012 from Slovenia

• Dr Ana Cara Belen, ‘Self-organising Controllers’, 2011 from Spain

• Dr. Jose Antonio Iglesias, ‘Evolving Classification of Users Behaviour’, 2011 from Spain

• Dr Jose Antonio Iglesias, ‘Evolving Classification of Users Behaviour’, 2008 from Spain

​

Grants for visits or hosting visitors:

• Distinguished Visitor Programme grant, £4200, 2019 (hosting the ACM Fellow Prof. D. Dasgupta, University of Memphis)

• Visiting Researcher at CESAME, Catholic University of Leuvain, Louvain-la-neuve, Belgium, in the EU funded project ERB-FAIR-CT96-1099, €129 000, 1997-1999

• BEF670K from the Belgian Office for Technical, Scientific and Cultural Affairs to the Prime Minister of Belgium, for joint research, 1997

• DEM8000 from DAAD to visit Hans-Knoell Institute, Germany for collaboration, 1996

• DEM2100 from DFG to visit Hannover University, Germany for collaboration programme set-up, 1995

• £795 grant from the Royal Society to give invited talks at Ford R&D, Dearborn, MI, USA, Dow Chemicals R&D, Saginaw, MI, USA, and University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

• £1140 grant from the Royal Society to give a Tutorial and present a paper at the World Congress on Computational Intelligence , Vancouver, BC, Canada, July 16-21, 2006

• £2.5K grant from the Royal Society  to host Prof. Frank Klawonn, 2006

• £1 grant from the Royal Society to host Dr. Edwin Lughofer

 

Hosting visiting Researchers for shorter stays (weeks)

• Prof. Frank Klawonn , University of Applied Sciences, Braunschweig, GERMANY for an incoming visit working on Evolving Probabilistic Classifiers with applications to bio-medical data, April-May 2006

• Dr. Edwin Lughofer Fuzzy Logic Laboratory, Johan Kepler University, Linz, AUSTRIA, for a short incoming visit working on evolving fuzzy classifiers and systems, £1K, May 2007

• Dr. Dimitar Filev , Senior Technical Leader, Intelligent Control and Information Systems, Ford Research and Advanced Engineering, Dearborn, MI, USA, 30 May 2012

• Dr. James Llinas , Emeritus Professor, Director Centre for Multisource Infomration Fusion, State University of New York, Buffalo, USA, 2010 (press here here to go to the PPT of the talk) 

• Dr. Jose Antonio Iglesias  , Carlos III University of Madrid, SPAIN, 2008

• Dr Edwin Lughofer Fuzzy Logic Laboratory, Johan Kepler University, Linz, AUSTRIA, September 2006 and May 2007

• Prof. Frank Klawonn , University of Applied Sciences, Braunschweig, GERMANY, April-May 2006 

• Prof. Hisao Ishibuchi , University of Osaka , Osaka, JAPAN, September 2005 click here for the Abstract of his talk

• Prof. Nik Kasabov KEDRI, Auckland, NEW ZEALAND, September 2005

• Mr. Jose Victor Ramos Centre of Information Systems, University of Coimbra, PORTUGAL, July 2004

• Prof. Gancho Vachkov Kagawa University , Kagawa, JAPAN, December 2002

• Prof. Ivan Kalaykov , AASS, Orebro University, SWEDEN, September 2001

• Prof. Trevor Martin , BT and University of Bristol, UK 

• Prof. Bogdan Gabrys, University of Bournemouth, UK