Jose Lisandro Aguilar Castro

​Professor Jose Aguilar received the B. S. degree in 1987 (Universidad de Los Andes-Venezuela), the M. Sc. degree in 1991 (Universite Paul Sabatier-France), and the Ph.D degree in 1995 (Universite Rene Descartes-France). He was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Computer Sciences at the University of Houston (1999-2000). He is full Professor at the Universidad de Los Andes, Venezuela; member of the Mérida Science Academy and of the IEEE CIS Technical Committee on Neural Networks. Also, currently he is Prometeo Researcher at the Escuela Politécnica Nacional (EPN) and Yachay-EP, Quito, Ecuador. He has published more than 500 papers and 9 books, in the field of parallel and distributed systems, computational intelligence, science and technology management, etc. Dr. Aguilar has been a visiting research/professor in different universities/laboratories, coordinator or inviting research in more than 20 research/industrial projects, and supervised more than 40 M. S. and Doctoral thesis.