Francisco Herrera Triguero is a preeminent scholar and internationally recognized leader in computational intelligence and artificial intelligence research. He currently serves as Full Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence at the University of Granada, where he has maintained a distinguished academic career since joining as an associate professor in 1988. Following the completion of his doctoral studies in Information Processing and Artificial Intelligence at the University of Granada in 1991, he progressed through the academic ranks, achieving associate professorship in 1995 and full professorship in 2005. In 2018, he assumed leadership as director of the Andalusian Inter-University Institute in Data Science and Artificial Intelligence, a prestigious excellence institution established through collaboration between the Universities of Granada and Jaén.
Professor Herrera has produced transformative contributions to the field of artificial intelligence through his extensive research on soft computing methodologies, having published over 360 international journal articles that have fundamentally advanced knowledge in computational intelligence. His seminal work on genetic fuzzy systems, documented in the influential 2001 monograph Genetic Fuzzy Systems published by World Scientific, established critical frameworks for interpretable AI that continue to guide contemporary research. He has also pioneered significant theoretical developments in data preprocessing, multilabel classification, and the 2-tuple linguistic model for computing with words in decision making, creating methodologies that have become standard references across academic and industrial applications worldwide. His leadership in developing the KEEL software framework has provided researchers with essential tools for experimental analysis in data mining, significantly amplifying the practical implementation of his theoretical contributions.
Beyond his research accomplishments, Professor Herrera has profoundly shaped the global AI research community through his mentorship and leadership roles, having supervised 44 doctoral theses with nine of his former students now holding full professor positions in Spain and the United Kingdom. He serves on the editorial boards of more than a dozen leading international journals including IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, Information Sciences, and Fuzzy Sets and Systems, helping to steer scholarly discourse in computational intelligence. As head of the SCI2S research group Soft Computing and Intelligent Information Systems, he has established a renowned center of excellence that attracts international collaboration. Currently directing Spain's premier institute for data science and artificial intelligence, Professor Herrera continues to drive innovation at the intersection of computational intelligence and big data analytics, positioning his work at the forefront of developing advanced computational methodologies to address complex real-world challenges.
