Francisco Herrera (Senior Member, IEEE) received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in mathematics from the University of Granada, Granada, Spain, in 1988 and 1991, respectively.,He is currently a Professor with the Department of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, University of Granada, and the Director of the Andalusian Research Institute in Data Science and Computational Intelligence (DaSCI), and also with the Faculty of Computing and Information Technology, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

He is an Academician of the Spanish Royal Academy of Engineering. He has been the supervisor of 46 Ph.D. students. He has published more than 450 journal articles, receiving more than 115 000 citations (Scholar Google, H-index 163).

His current research interests include among others, computational intelligence (including fuzzy modeling, computing with words, evolutionary algorithms, and deep learning), information fusion and decision making, and data science (including data preprocessing, prediction, singular problems, and big data).

Dr. Herrera has been selected as a Highly Cited Researcher (in the fields of computer science and engineering, respectively, since 2014, Clarivate Analytics).

He also acts as the Editor-in-Chief of the international journal Information Fusion (Elsevier).

He acts as an Editorial Member of a dozen of journals. He received the several honors and awards, among others: the European Coordinating Committee for Artificial Intelligence (ECCAI) Fellow 2009, an International Fuzzy Systems Association (IFSA) Fellow 2013, 2010 Spanish National Award on Computer Science ARITMEL to the “Spanish Engineer on Computer Science,” International Cajastur “Mamdani” Prize for Soft Computing (Fourth Edition, 2010), IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy System Outstanding 2008 and 2012 Paper, the 2011 Lotfi A. Zadeh Prize Best Paper Award (IFSA Association), the 2013 Asociación Española para Ia Inteligencia Artificial (AEPIA) Award to a scientific career in Artificial Intelligence, the 2014 XV Andalucía Research Prize Maimónides, the 2017 Andalucía Medal (by the regional government of Andalucía), and the 2018 “Granada: Science and Innovation City” award.

In 2022, he was elected as member of the European Academy of Engineering.