Jorge Casillas

  • 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
  • Pre-doctoral Researcher, Ministry of Science and Technology, September 2000 - October 2001
  • 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 - October 2019
  • Full Professor (Catedrático de Universidad) with the Department of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence (DECSAI) of the University of Granada, October 2019 - present

  • Since 2000, J. Casillas teaches at the University of Granada:
    • Computer Engineering School:
      • Metaheuristics (4th year of Computer Science) 2000-2005: local search, simulated annealing, tabu search, GRASP, iterative local search, multistart search, genetic algorithms, memetic algorithms, scatter search...
      • Bio-inspired algorithms (5th year of Computer Science) 2000-2007: evolutionary computation, ant colony optimization algorithms, swarm intelligence...
      • Fuzzy rule-based systems (Master on Soft Computing and Intelligent Systems) 2006-2014: fuzzy modeling, genetic fuzzy systems, interpretability-accuracy trade-off...
      • Algorithmics (2nd year of Computer Science) 2002-2011: greedy, divide and conquer, dynamic programming, backtracking, branch-and-bound...
      • Data Structure (2nd year of Computer Science) 2011-2013: lists, queues, stacks, trees, hash tables, graphs
      • Intelligent Systems for Business (Master on Computer Engineering) 2014-2016: business intelligence.
      • Business Analytics (4th year of Computer Science) 2013-2020: resolution of real-world business problems by data mining including classification, clustering, association rules, data visualization, big data, data stream...
      • Artificial Intelligence (2th year of Computer Science) 2020-: AI fundamentals, knowledge representation, search, learning, AI applications.
    • Faculty of Sciences:
      • Programming (5th year of Mathematics) 2001-2002: introduction to language C
      • Computer Networks (4th year of Statistics) 2001-2002: introduction to computer networks
      • Programming (1st year of Mathematics) 2002-2003: introduction to language C
      • Fuzzy Control (5th year of Electronic Engineering) 2002-2014: study and design of fuzzy logic controllers, genetic fuzzy systems, neuro-fuzzy systems, application to robot navigation...
      • Intelligent Control (4th year of Industrial Electronic Engineering) 2014-: fuzzy logic controllers, genetic fuzzy systems, neuro-fuzzy systems, autonomous robotics, localization, mapping, planning...
  • 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 yBioinspirados (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 (ref. 02-02-35), Vicerrectorado de Planificación, Calidad y Evaluación Docente, University of Granada, November 2002 - February 2006. Coordinator: J. Casillas.
    3. Teaching project: Plataforma web multidisciplinar para la gestión de asignaturas de informática en múltiples titulaciones (ref. 06-03-01), Vicerrectorado de Planificación, Calidad y Evaluación Docente, University of Granada, December 2006 - April 2009. Coordinator: S. Alonso
    4. Teaching project: Un ITS para teoría de algoritmos (ref. 08-215), Vicerrectorado de Planificación, Calidad y Evaluación Docente, University of Granada, November 2008 - May 2010. Coordinator: J. M. Benítez
  • International Teaching Grants:
    • Developing Curricula for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics (DeCAIR), Erasmus+: KA2 - Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices, EAC-A02-2019-CBHE. Partners: University of Jordan, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Tafila Technical University, Université Libanaise, Beirut Arab University, Università di Pisa, Università Degli Studi di Genova, Universidad de Granada, Unviersität Stuttgart, Creative Thinking Development. Period: January 15, 2021 - January 14, 2024

Publications

Advised PhDs

  1. Francisco J. Martínez-López (June 27, 2005)
    Title: "Knowledge Discovery Methodology for Consumer Behaviour Modelling by Genetic Fuzzy Systems and its Application to Internet-based Electronic Markets"
    Co-advisors: Jorge Casillas and Francisco J. Martínez (University of Huelva)
    "European Doctor" Mention
    Faculty of Business and Economic Sciences, University of Granada, Granada, Spain
  2. Andreu Sancho-Asensio (May 19, 2014)
    Title: "Facing Online Challenges Using Learning Classifier Systems"
    Co-advisors: Jorge Casillas and Elisabet Golobardes (Ramon Llull University)
    "European Doctor" Mention
    School of Computer and Electronic Engineering, Ramon Llull University, Barcelona, Spain
  3. Mohamed Habib Kammoun (April 16, 2015)
    Title: "Hybrid MultiAgent Road Traffic Management System: Assets of Ant-Hierarchical Fuzzy Behavior in System Adaptativity"
    Co-advisors: Ilhem Kallel (University of Sfax), Jorge Casillas, and Adel M. Alimi (University of Sfax)
    National Engineering School of Sfax, University of Sfax, Tunisia
  4. Alicia D. Benítez Yáñez (October 26, 2015)
    Title: "Multiobjective Evolutionary Learning of Hierarchical Fuzzy Systems and their Application in Astrophysics"
    Advisor: Jorge Casillas
    School of Computer Science and Telecommunications, University of Granada, Granada, Spain
  5. Héctor R. Velarde Bedregal (February 21, 2017)
    Title: "Model for Development Effort Estimation on Engineering Tasks of Software Projects by Using Machine Learning"
    Advisor: Jorge Casillas
    School of Computer Science and Telecommunications, University of Granada, Granada, Spain
  6. Elena Ruiz Sánchez (May 7, 2021)
    Title: "Learning Rules in Data Stream Mining: Algorithms and Applications"
    Advisor: Jorge Casillas
    School of Computer Science and Telecommunications, University of Granada, Granada, Spain

Awards

  1. 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"
  2. Best paper award in the 3rd International Workshop on Genetic and Evolving Fuzzy Systems (IWGEFS 2008), Witten-Bommerholz, Germany, 2008: J. Casillas, A. Orriols-Puig, E. Bernadó-Mansilla, Toward evolving consistent, complete, and compact fuzzy rule sets for classification problems, pp. 89-94
  3. 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
  4. Award of the University of Granada to Excellent Research Works (call 2012) for "Mining uncertain data with multiobjective genetic fuzzy systems to be applied in consumer behaviour modelling"
  5. Best paper award in IX Simposio Teoría y Aplicaciones de Minería de Datos (TAMIDA 2018), Granada, Spain, 2018: E. Ruiz, J. Casillas, Reglas de asociación en flujos de datos para monitorizar actividad de teléfonos móviles.

Invited Keynote Talks

  1. Modelado Causal mediante Extracción de Conocimiento con Sistemas Difusos Genéticos Multiobjetivo. Aplicación en Modelado del Comportamiento del Consumidor, Facultad de CC. Económicas y Empresariales, Universidad de León, Spain (May, 2005)
  2. Aprendizaje a partir de Estímulos con Sistemas Clasificadores Difusos para Robótica, Escuela de Ingeniería Industrial e Informática, Universidad de León, Spain (May, 2005)
  3. Sistemas Clasificadores Difusos estilo Michigan. Aplicaciones en Robótica y Data Mining, Universidad Autónoma de Aguascalientes, Aguascalientes, Ags., Mexico (May, 2005)
  4. Algoritmos Bioinspirados: Técnicas de Computación que Imitan la Naturaleza, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, Spain (March, 2007)
  5. New Genetic Fuzzy Systems: Interpretable, Scalable, Hierarchical, and Incremental. Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka Prefecture University, Osaka, Japan (August, 2009)
  6. Inteligencia Empresarial, XX Jornada Internacional de Ingeniería de Sistemas (JINIS), Universidad Católica de Santa María, Arequipa, Peru (October, 2013)
  7. Toward association rules in data streams: new approaches with potential real-world applications, IEEE SSCI 2014, IEEE Symposium on Evolving and Autonomous Learning Systems, Orlando, FL (December 11, 2014)
  8. Association Stream Mining and Its Use in the Analysis of Physiologic Signals, 2nd International Conference on Signal Processing & Integrated Networks, Noida, India (February 20, 2015)
  9. Big data: ¿manipulación y/o predicción del comportamiento social?, Centro Mediterráneo, Universidad de Granada (May 16, 2018)
  10. La cara oculta del big data: cuando la predicción da paso a la manipulación social, Instituto de la Paz y los Conflictos, Universidad de Granada (October 3, 2018). See video here
  11. Dándole vueltas al big data, Ayuntamiento de Otura, Otura, Granada (October 18, 2018). See video here
  12. La cara oculta del big data: de la predicción a la manipulación social, ISDI (Instituto Superior para el Desarrollo de Internet), Madrid (January 10, 2019)
  13. Juego sucio y malas prácticas en inteligencia artificial, Centro Mediterráneo, Universidad de Granada (March 6, 2019)
  14. Miedos y esperanzas para el sector sociosanitario en la era del big data, Centro de Estudios de Postgrado, Universidad de Jaén (March 14, 2019). See video here
  15. All that glitters is not gold in Artificial Intelligence; welcome to its dark side, 29th Conference of the European Association for Research on Services (RESER), Ceuta, Spain (September 13, 2019). See video here
  16. Desmontando mitos de la inteligencia artificial, Instituto de la Paz y los Conflictos, Universidad de Granada (February 5, 2020). See video here

R&D Grants

  1. Title: GENESYS: Fuzzy Controllers and Smart Tuning Techniques for Energy Efficiency andOverall 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
    UGR node coordinator: A. González
  2. Title: Intelligent Data Analysisusing 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. P10-TIC-6858
    Period: March 2011 - April 2016
    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
  13. Title: Support Tool for Energy Efficiency pRogrammes in medical centres (STEER)
    Finance provider: European Commission H2020-MSCA-RISE-2014, grant no. 645694
    Period: December 2014 - November 2018
    UGR node coordinator: J. Casillas
  14. Title: Tools and Models of Data Science by Computational Intelligence. Big Data
    Finance provider: Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (MINECO), grant no. TIN2014-57251-P
    Period: January 2015 - December 2017
    Coordinator: F. Herrera
  15. Title: Big data preprocessing: tools to improve the quality of data (BigDaPTOOLS)
    Finance provider: Fundación BBVA
    Period: July 2016 - June 2018
    Coordinator: F. Herrera
  16. Title: SMART-DASCI: Models of data science and computational intelligence. Building bridges between big data and smart data
    Finance provider: Spanish Ministry of Economy, Industry and Competitiveness (MINECO), grant no. TIN2017-89517-P
    Period: January 2018 - December 2020
    Coordinator: F. Herrera
  17. Title: Virtual tongue to predIct the organoleptic profile of mediterranean ingredients and their effect on human homeostasis by means of an integrated computational multiphysics platform (VIRTUOUS)
    Finance provider: European Commission H2020-MSCA-RISE-2019, grant no. 872181
    Period: December 2019 - November 2023
    UGR node coordinator: V. Martos
  18. Title: Assessment of healthcare needs of people with chronic diseases according to social and environmental determinants using advanced data science methodologies
    Finance provider: Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation, Institute of Health Carlos III Research Projects on Health, grant no. PI20/01435
    Period: November 2020 - October 2023
    Coordinator: J. Casillas

Journal Editorial Representation

  • Evolutionary Intelligence, Springer, ISSN 1864-5909 (print version), 1864-5917 (electronic version). Member of the Editorial Board since January, 2008
  • Evolving Systems, Springer, ISSN 1868-6478 (print version), 1868-6486 (electronic version). Member of the Editorial Board since April, 2015

Organizing Activities

Research Fellowships

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