About The Speaker
Javier Andreu-Perez
Javier Andreu-Pérez (SMIEEE, FHEA, MEPRC) received the Ph.D. degree in 2012 at Lancaster University (UK). He is currently a Reader (Associate Professor, tenured) in Human-Centred Artificial Intelligence at the School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE) and group chair of the Smart Health Technologies Group at the University of Essex (UK). His expertise focuses on human-centred artificial intelligence, interpretable, continuous AI learning and uncertainty modelling in highly noisy, non-stationary, high-dimensional data. Javier’s other interests are in sensor engineering, bio/neuro-engineering, and life science research.
Javier has published in journals edited by Elsevier, Springer-Nature, IEEE (TFS, TSMC, TBMI, JBHI, TDCS, etc.), and other venues in artificial intelligence and cognitive neuroscience. Javier’s work in artificial intelligence and biomedical engineering has attracted 5000+ citations.
Javier was chair of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (CIS) task force on Extensions of Type-1 fuzzy sets (2018-2022). Javier acts as the Editor-in-chief (EiC) and associate EiC of the journals of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing (Springer-Nature Q1) and Neurocomputing (Elsevier, Q1), respectively. He’s been invited as an expert reviewer for significant publishers such as Science, The Lancet and BMC. He has served on the technical committee for IEEE WCCI on several occasions and as workshop chair for FUZZ-IEEE. UK research councils have funded Javier’s research, and other funding schemes are supported by UKRI, Royal Society, Welcome Trust, NIHR, and big IT corporations such as Nvidia, Amazon, and Oracle. Javier has an extensive portfolio of completed successful knowledge transfer and collaboration with the industry.
Javier has won personal fellowship awards for his research career from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (2022), Talentia Senior Fellowship from the Andalusia Scientific Council (2020), and the best research associate research presentation at Imperial College London (2017). Javier’s other passions are practicing sports and catching up with family and friends.