Honors and Awards

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During his academic career, Prof. Coello has received a number of honors and awards, which are classified in several categories below.

Awards

  1. Arturo Rosenblueth PhD Thesis Award 2009 granted to Dr. Luis Vicente Santana-Quintero (Dr. Coello was his thesis advisor) in the area of Technology and Engineering Sciences in November, 2009. This is an award granted by CINVESTAV-IPN to the best PhD thesis from this institution. The award is granted each year in four areas and consists of a diploma (for both, the PhD student and his/her thesis advisor) and a check (only for the PhD student). Luis is the first PhD graduate of the Computer Science Department at CINVESTAV-IPN in receiving this important award.

  2. Best Paper Award at the international conference Artificial Evolution 2009 (EA' 2009), held in Strasbourg, France, in October, 2009.

  3. Best Paper Award from the Evolutionary Multiobjective Optimization track at the 2008 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO'2008), held in Atlanta, Georgia, USA, in July, 2008.

  4. 2007 National Research Award in the area of exact sciences. This award is granted by the Mexican Academy of Science to researchers under the age of 40 who have shown an outstanding performance, and is the second most prestigious scientific award granted in Mexico. The award was delivered to Dr. Carlos A. Coello Coello by the President of Mexico in October 22nd, 2007. Some pictures of the event as well as some press notes (in Spanish) can be found here.

  5. Best Paper Award from the Evolutionary Multiobjective Optimization track at the 2007 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO'2007), held in London, UK, in July, 2007.

  6. Diario de México medal (presidential award) for being one of the best undergraduate students in México, 1990.

  7. First Runner-Up in the category Theoretical Developments in Computational Intelligence Award at the international conference Artificial Neural Networks in Engineering (ANNIE'2005), St Louis Missouri, USA, November 2005.

  8. First Runner-Up in the category Theoretical Developments in Computational Intelligence Award at the international conference Artificial Neural Networks in Engineering (ANNIE'2003), St Louis Missouri, USA, November 2003.

  9. Best Paper Award in the category Novel Smart Engineering System Design Award at the Artificial Neural Networks in Engineering Conference (ANNIE'2001), St Louis Missouri, USA, November 2001.

  10. Diploma granted by the Association of Civil Engineers of Chiapas for being the best undergraduate of the class 1985-1990.

Memberships to Societies and Boards

  1. Member of the Scientific Advisory Board for SolveIT Software (Australia), since 2005.

  2. Senior Member of the IEEE (Computational Intelligence Society) since 2004.

  3. Member of Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society, since 2004.

  4. Member of the Council of the Hispanic-American Fuzzy Systems Association (HAFSA), since 2004.

  5. Member of the Council of Authors of the International Society for Genetic and Evolutionary Computation, since 2003.

  6. Member of the Mexican Academy of Science (since 2002).

  7. Member of the Advisory Board of the Mexican Council of Science and Technology, 2000-2002.

  8. Member of the National System of Researchers (as a Level 3 Researcher) (since 2005).

  9. Member of Upsilon Pi Epsilon(UPE) for academic merit, 1991-1995.

Keynote and Invited Speeches

  1. Keynote speaker at the International Conference on Computer Science, Communication & Information Technology, Nanded, India, 9--11 January, 2010.

  2. Plenary speaker at the 9th International Conference on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications (ISDA'09), Pisa, Italy, December 2009.

  3. Invited speaker at the Multiobjective Optimisation Workshop, organized by CSIRO Energy Technology, Newcastle, Australia, September 2009.

  4. Invited speaker at the 2nd International Seminar on New Issues in Artificial Intelligence, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Colmenarejo, Spain, February 2009.

  5. Plenary speaker at the VI IEEE Latin-American Summer School on Computational Intelligence, Santiago, Chile, December 2008.

  6. Plenary speaker at the International Conference on Neural Network and Genetic Algorithm in Materials Science and Engineering (NGMS'2008), Kolkata, India, January 9--11, 2008.

  7. Keynote speaker at the 7th Encuentro Internacional de Ciencias de la Computación (ENC'2006), San Luis Potosí, México, 18--22 September, 2006.

  8. Invited speaker at the 2006 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC'2006), Vancouver, Canada, 16--21 July, 2006.

  9. Keynote speaker at the Seventh International Conference on Adaptive Computing in Design and Manufacture (ACDM'2006), Bristol, UK, 25--27 April, 2006.

  10. Invited speaker at the Microsoft Research Academic Summit Guadalajara 2006, Guadalajara, México, 17--19 May, 2006.

  11. Invited speaker at the Seminar on New Trends on Intelligent Systems and Soft Computing, Granada, Spain, 16--17 February, 2006.

  12. Keynote speaker at the Fifth International Conference on Hybrid Intelligent Systems (HIS'2005), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 6--9 November, 2005.

  13. Invited speaker at the International Seminar on Computational Intelligence 2005, Mexico City, México, 17--18 October, 2005.

  14. Keynote speaker at the XI ELAVIO (XI Latin American Summer Workshop on Operations Research), Villa de Leyva, Colombia, 25--29 July, 2005.

  15. Keynote speaker at the 8th Joint Conference on Information Sciences (JCIS'2005), Salt Lake, Utah, USA, 21--26 July, 2005.

  16. Keynote speaker at the International Workshop on Biometric Technologies: Forum on Modeling and Simulation in Biometric Technology--BT 2004, Calgary, Canada, June 22-23, 2004.

  17. Keynote speaker at the Seventh Online World Conference on Soft Computing in Industrial Applications, September 23rd to October 4th, 2002.

  18. Keynote speaker at the Primer Congreso Español de Algoritmos Evolutivos y Bioinspirados (AEB'02), Mérida, España, 8--10 February, 2002.

  19. Invited speaker at the University of Valparaíso (Chile), 2002.

Tutorial Speaker

  1. Tutorial speaker at The Pyrenees International Workshop and Summer School on Statistics, Probability and Operations Research (SPO 2009) (Jaca, Spain).

  2. Tutorial speaker at GECCO'2009 (Montreal, Canada).

  3. Tutorial speaker at GECCO'2008 (Atlanta, Georgia, USA).

  4. Tutorial speaker at GECCO'2007 (London, UK).

  5. Tutorial speaker at GECCO'2006 (Seattle, Washington, USA).

  6. Tutorial speaker at ISSADS'2005 (Guadalajara, México).

  7. Tutorial speaker at HIS'2005 (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil).

  8. Tutorial speaker at GECCO'2005 (Washington DC, USA).

  9. Tutorial speaker at CEC'2005 (Edinburgh, Scotland, UK).

  10. Tutorial speaker at CEC'2004 (Portland, Oregon, USA).

  11. Tutorial speaker at GECCO'2002 (New York, New York, USA).

  12. Tutorial speaker at GECCO'2003 (Chicago, Illinois, USA).

  13. Tutorial speaker at SIS'2003 (Indianapolis, USA).

  14. Tutorial speaker at PPSN'2002 (Granada, Spain).

  15. Tutorial speaker at the First International Conference on Evolutionary Multi-Criterion Optimization (EMO'2001), Zurich, Switzerland, 2001.


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