Curriculum Vitae

Qualifications

• BSc graduate degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering School, University of Granada, July 1996.
• MSc graduate degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering School, University of Granada, October 6, 1998.
• PhD graduate degree in Computer Science, Department of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence (DECSAI), University of Granada, July 13, 2001.
  Dissertation title: "Cooperative Learning for Flexible Linguistic Modeling Based on Fuzzy Rules: Interpretability and Accuracy"
  Advisors: Dr. Oscar Cordón and Dr. Francisco Herrera
  Full manuscript (in Spanish): (2523KB)

Employment

• Contracted Researcher in the European Project entitled "GENESYS: Fuzzy Controllers and Smart Tuning Techniques for Energy Efficiency and Overall Performance of HVAC Systems in Buildings," February 1999 - August 2000
• Assistant Professor (Profesor Asociado Tipo III) with the Department of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence (DECSAI) of the University of Granada, October 2001 - June 2005
• Untenured Associate Professor (Profesor Contratado Doctor) with the Department of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence (DECSAI) of the University of Granada, July 2005 - January 2007
• Associate Professor (Profesor Titular de Universidad) with the Department of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence (DECSAI) of the University of Granada, January 2007 - Present

Teaching Experience

• Since 2000, J. Casillas teaches at the University of Granada:
  
  
  • Computer Engineering School:
  
  
  • Algorithmics (Second Year of Computer Science): greedy, divide and conquer, dynamic programming, backtracking, branch-and-bound...
  • Metaheuristics (Fourth Year of Computer Science): local search, simulated annealing, tabu search, GRASP, iterative local search, multistart search, genetic algorithms, memetic algorithms, scatter search...
  • Bio-inspired algorithms (Fifth Year of Computer Science): evolutionary computation, ant colony optimization algorithms, swarm intelligence...
  • Fuzzy rule-based systems (Master on Soft Computing and Intelligent Systems): fuzzy modeling, genetic fuzzy systems, interpretability-accuracy trade-off...
  • Faculty of Sciences:
  
  
  • Fuzzy Control (Fifth Course of Electronic Engineering): study and design of fuzzy logic controllers, application to robot navigation

• Teaching publications:
  
  
  1. J. Casillas, F. Herrera, Experiencias docentes sobre la enseñanza de metaheurísticas en ingeniería informática en la Universidad de Granada, Proceedings of the III Congreso Español de Metaheurísticas, Algoritmos Evolutivos y Bioinspirados (MAEB 2004), Córdoba, Spain (2004) 329-335.
  
  
  2. J. Casillas, Enseñanza de control difuso en Ingeniería Electrónica en la Universidad de Granada: un enfoque práctico, Proceedings of the XII Congreso Español sobre Tecnología y Lógica Fuzzy (ESTYLF 2004), special session "Sesión especial: La enseñanza de la lógica difusa: motivaciones y acciones," Jaén, Spain (2004) 63-71.
• Other Teaching Activities:
  
  
  1. Special session: J. Casillas, F. Herrera, Innovación Docente en Metaheurísticas, XII Congreso Español sobre Tecnología y Lógica Fuzzy (ESTYLF 2004), Córdoba, Spain
  2. Teaching project: Desarrollo de Herramientas Docentes para la Comprensión de Algoritmos de Optimización y Búsqueda, Vicerrectorado de Planificación, Calidad y Evaluación Docente, University of Granada, grant no. JMJ/DGQ-1846, November, 2002 - September, 2003. Coordinator: J. Casillas.
  3. Teaching project: Plataforma web multidisciplinar para la gestión de asignaturas de informática en múltiples titulaciones, Vicerrectorado de Planificación, Calidad y Evaluación Docente, University of Granada, December, 2006 - December 2007. Coordinator: S. Alonso

Research Experience

• Publications
• ResearcherID
• Google Citations
• List of publications
• Awards
• 2001 Extraordinary Prize of the University of Granada to the PhD thesis entitled "Cooperative Learning for Flexible Linguistic Modeling Based on Fuzzy Rules: Interpretability and Accuracy"
• Best paper award in the 3rd International Workshop on Genetic and Evolving Fuzzy Systems: J. Casillas, A. Orriols-Puig, E. Bernadó-Mansilla, Toward evolving consistent, complete, and compact fuzzy rule sets for classification problems, 3rd International Workshop on Genetic and Evolving Fuzzy Systems (IWGEFS 2008), pp. 89-94, Witten-Bommerholz, Germany, 2008.
• Top Cited Article 2005-2010 of the Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence journal to the paper R. Alcalá, J. Casillas, O. Cordón, A. González, F. Herrera, A genetic rule weighting and selection process for fuzzy control of heating, ventilating and air conditioning systems, Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence 18:3 (2005) 279-296. ISSN 0952-1976. doi:10.1016/j.engappai.2004.09.007
• Advised PhD
• Francisco J. Martínez-López (June, 2005)
  Title: "Knowledge Discovery Methodology for Consumer Behaviour Modelling by Genetic Fuzzy Systems and its Application to Internet-based Electronic Markets"
  Co-advisor: Francisco J. Martínez (University of Huelva)
  University of Granada
• Research Projects
1. Title: GENESYS: Fuzzy Controllers and Smart Tuning Techniques for Energy Efficiency and Overall Performance of HVAC Systems in Buildings
   Finance provider: European Commission JOULE-THERMIE Programme, Fourth Framework Programme, grant no. JOE-CT98-0090
   Period: October 1998 - September 2000
   Spanish partner coordinator: A. González
2. Title: Intelligent Data Analysis using Fuzzy Rule Based Systems and Genetic Learning Processes
   Finance provider: Spanish Interministerial Commission of Science and Technology (CICYT), grant no. PB98-1319
   Period: January 2000 - December 2002
   Coordinator: F. Herrera
3. Title: KEEL: Knowledge Extraction based on Evolutionary Learning
   Finance provider: Spanish Ministry of Science and Technology (MCyT), grant no. TIC2002-04036-C05-01
   Period: November 2002 - October 2005
   Coordinator: F. Herrera
4. Title: Improvement of Metaheuristics by Hybridation and their Applications
   Finance provider: University of Granada, reference ISB 2325
   Period: November 2002 - October 2003
   Coordinator: O. Cordón
5. Title: Hybridizing Evolutionary Algorithms and Ant Colony Optimization. Application to Fuzzy Rule Set Learning and Bioinformatics
   Finance provider: Spanish Ministry of Science and Technology (MCyT), grant no. TIC2003-00877
   Period: January 2004 - December 2006
   Coordinator: O. Cordón
6. Title: Remote Control of Adaptive and Self-governing Mobile Robot Systems to Perform Joint Task by Beta-type Genetic Fuzzy Systems
   Finance provider: Spanish Agency of International Cooperation (AECI), grant no. 26/04/P/T
   Period: January 2005 - December 2005
   Spanish partner coordinator: J. Casillas
7. Title: KEEL II: Evolutionary Algorithms for Data Reduction and Extraction of Fuzzy Rule-Based Systems. Diversity and Convergence in Evolutionary Algorithms. Interpretability vs Accuracy in Fuzzy Modeling
   Finance provider: Spanish Ministry of Education and Science (MEC), grant no. TIN2005-08386-C05-01
   Period: December 2005 - December 2008
   Coordinator: F. Herrera
8. Title: MINDAT-PLUS: Data mining for users in different application areas
   Finance provider: Andalusian Government, grant no. P05-TIC-00531
   Period: January 2006 - December 2008
   Coordinator: F. Herrera
9. Title: Mk-AprenDif: Learning Fuzzy Rule-Based Systems to Interpretability Improvement and Management of High Dimensionality and Uncertainty. Application in Marketing.
   Finance provider: Andalusian Government, grant no. P07-TIC-3185
   Period: January 2008 - December 2012
   Coordinator: J. Casillas
10. Title: KEEL-CTNC: Evolutionary Learning of Fuzzy Rule Based Systems, Imbalanced Data Sets, Frequent and Interesting Pattern Mining. Data Preprocessing and Algorithm Scalability in Data Mining. Web Mining
    Finance provider: Spanish Ministry of Education and Science (MEC), grant no. TIN2008-06681-C06-01
    Period: January 2009 - December 2011
    Coordinator: F. Herrera
11. Title: New Challenges on the Use of Soft Computing Techniques for Data Mining
    Finance provider: Andalusian Government, grant no. TIC-2010-6858
    Period: March 2011 - February 2015
    Coordinator: F. Herrera
12. Title: Applications of Soft Computing Techniques to Data Mining. New Approaches
    Finance provider: Spanish Ministry of Education and Science (MEC), grant no. TIN2011-28488
    Period: January 2012 - December 2014
    Coordinator: F. Herrera
• Journal Editorial Representation

• Evolutionary Intelligence, Springer, ISSN 1864-5909 (print version), 1864-5917 (electronic version). Member of the Editorial Board since January, 2008
• Organizing Activities

• Conferences, Workshops, Seminars, ...
  1. 7th Online World Conference on Soft Computing in Industrial Applications (WSC7), Web
  2. I Seminar on New Trends on Intelligent Systems and Soft Computing (2004), Granada, Spain
  3. II Seminar on New Trends on Intelligent Systems and Soft Computing (2005), Granada, Spain
  4. I International Workshop on Genetic Fuzzy System (GFS 2005), Granada, Spain
  5. Simposio sobre Lógica Fuzzy y Soft Computing (LFSC 2005), Granada, Spain
  6. 2nd International Conference on Machine Intelligence (ACIDCA-ICMI 2005), Tozeur, Tunisia
  7. III Seminar on New Trends on Intelligent Systems and Soft Computing (2006), Granada, Spain
  8. IV Seminar on New Trends on Intelligent Systems and Soft Computing (2007), Granada, Spain
  9. II Simposio sobre Lógica Fuzzy y Soft Computing (LFSC 2007), Zaragoza, Spain
  10. V Seminar on New Trends on Intelligent Systems and Soft Computing (2008), Granada, Spain
  11. VI Seminar on New Trends on Intelligent Systems and Soft Computing (2009), Granada, Spain
  12. VII Seminar on New Trends on Intelligent Systems and Soft Computing (2010), Granada, Spain
  13. VIII Seminar on New Trends on Intelligent Systems and Soft Computing (2011), Granada, Spain
  14. International Symposium on Management Intelligent Systems (2012), Salamanca, Spain
• Special Issues in JCR Journals
  1. J. Casillas, F. Herrera, R. Pérez, M.J. del Jesus, P. Villar (Eds.), Genetic Fuzzy Systems and the Interpretability-Accuracy Trade-off, International Journal of Approximate Reasoning 44:1 (2007). ISSN 0888-613X.
  2. J. Casillas, B. Carse (Eds.), Genetic Fuzzy Systems: Recent Developments and Future Directions, Soft Computing 13:5 (2009). ISSN 1432-7643.
  3. F.J. Martínez-López, J. Casillas (Eds.), Applied Intelligent Systems in Business-to-Business Marketing, Industrial Marketing Management. ISSN 0019-8501. In preparation. See the Call for Papers
• Special Sessions in Conferences
  1. B. Carse, J. Casillas, A. Pipe, Evolutionary Fuzzy Systems, 4th International Conference of the European Society for Fuzzy Logic and Technology (EUSFLAT-LFA 2005), Barcelona, Spain
  2. J. Casillas, Computational Intelligence and Robotics, 2nd International Conference on Machine Intelligence (ACIDCA-ICMI 2005), Tozeur, Tunisa
  3. B. Carse, J. Casillas, F. Gomide, Fifteen Years of Genetic Fuzzy Systems: Lessons Learnt, New Approaches, and Real-World Applications, 2006 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence, IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ-IEEE 2006), Vancouver, Canada
  4. B. Carse, J. Casillas, Recent Developments and Future Directions in Genetic Fuzzy Systems, IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ-IEEE 2007), London, UK
  5. M. Mucientes, J. Casillas, D. Pelta, Aplicaciones del Soft Computing, XIV Congreso Español sobre Tecnologías y Lógica Fuzzy (ESTYLF'08), Langreo-Mieres, Spain
  6. M. Mucientes, J. Casillas, Aplicaciones del Soft Computing, XV Congreso Español sobre Tecnologías y Lógica Fuzzy (ESTYLF'10), Huelva, Spain
  7. J. Bacardit, J. Casillas, Evolutionary Computation for Knowledge Discovery, 2010 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI 2010), Barcelona, Spain
• Research Fellowships
• Research fellowship granted by the University of Granada, April 1997 - September 1997
• Research fellowship granted by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Technology, September 2000 - October 2001
• Visiting Research Fellow at the University of the West of England (Bristol, UK), February 2004 - February 2005
• Membership to Research Networks, Research Groups, and Associations
• Red Andaluza de Investigación en Algoritmos Evolutivos y Bioinspirados (RADI-AEB)
• Red Española de Procedimientos Metaheurísticos (HEUR)
• Red Española de Minería de Datos y Aprendizaje (MINDATOS)
• Research Group on Soft Computing and Intelligent Information Systems (SCI2S)
• European Society for Fuzzy Logic and Technologies (EUSFLAT). Treasurer of EUSFLAT from September 2007 to July 2011, member of the board since July 2011, and coordinator of the working group on Genetic Fuzzy Systems since September 2007