She is the author of four books and more than 400 scientific papers in the area of soft computing and machine learning. She has supervised more than 35 PhD Thesis and 85 MSc Dissertations. Her research interests are related to Computational Intelligence methods and applications, including Neural Networks, Fuzzy Logic, Hybrid Intelligent Systems (Neuro-Fuzzy, Neuro-Evolutionary and Fuzzy-Evolutionary models), Robotics and Intelligent Agents applied to decision support systems, pattern classification, time-series forecasting, control, optimization and Data Mining.