Javier Andréu Pérez

Javier Andreu-Perez (Senior Member, IEEE) received the Ph.D. degree in intelligent systems from Lancaster University, Lancaster, U.K., in 2012. He is currently a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor, tenured) with the School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, University of Essex, Colchester, U.K., where he chairs the Smart Health Technologies Group. Recognized as an Expert Reviewer and Workshop Chair, his research has received funding from U.K. councils, Welcome Trust, NIHR, and tech giants like Nvidia, Amazon, and Oracle. Javier's industry collaborations have been extensive and fruitful. His scholarly work is widely published and cited, with contributions to major journals and conferences in artificial intelligence and cognitive neuroscience, totaling more than 3600 citations. His research interests include artificial intelligence, fuzzy methodologies for uncertainty modeling in complex data, sensor engineering, bio/neuroengineering, and life sciences. Dr. Andreu-Perez was a Chair of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Task Force on Type-1 fuzzy sets from 2018 to 2022. He is an Associate Editor-in-Chief for Neurocomputing and other journals. He has received accolades, such as the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science fellowship in 2022, Talentia Senior Fellowship in 2020, and an award for best research associate presentation at Imperial College London in 2017.