Prof. José R. VILLAR FLECHA (b. Dominican Republic, October 11, 1967) is Professor of the University of Oviedo, Spain. In 1992 he received the Electronics and Control Engineering degree from University of Oviedo. In 2012, he received his PhD in Computer Science from University of León (Spain). He has worked for several companies, dealing with control and instrumentation projects. From 1998 to 2004 he was with the Electric and Electronic Department of University of León. Since then, he is a member of the Computer Science Department at University of Oviedo. His research has been published in more than 25 papers on international peer reviewed and indexed journals and in more than 80 contributions to international conferences. 

He has organized several international conferences, as well as numerous special sessions within international conferences with special focus on real world applications of soft-computing and hybrid systems. Moreover, he is currently a guest editor in a special issue of Sensors. In apart, he is a current reviewer of some Q1 indexed journals and belongs to the programme committee of several international conferences. His current research topics include hybrid techniques for learning fuzzy systems and IoT, with application to the fields of energy efficiency and bio-computation.

• Silvia González, José R. Villar, Javier Sedano, Joaquín Terán, María Luz Alonso Álvarez and Jerónimo González, Enhancing the Apnea Episodes Detection based on Dictionaries, in accepted for publication in the International Journal of Multi Valuated Logic.
• José R Villar, Paula Vergara, Manuel Menéndez, Enrique A de la Cal, Víctor M González and Javier Sedano, Generalized models for the classification of abnormal movements in daily life and its applicability to epilepsy convulsion recognition, International Journal of Neural Systems (2016), doi 10.1142/S0129065716500386.
• José R. Villar, Silvia González, Javier Sedano, Camelia Chira, José M. Trejo, Human Activity Recognition for the early stroke diagnosis, International Journal of Neural Systems 25:4 (2015), 1450036-1450055.
• José R. Villar, Silvia González, Javier Sedano, Camelia Chira, José M. Trejo, Stroke onset detection by means of Hybrid Artificial Intelligent Systems, Integrated Computer Aided Engineering 22 (2015), 215-227.
• Silvia González, Javier Sedano, José R. Villar, Emilio Corchado, Álvaro Herrero, Bruno Baruque, Features and Models for Human Activity Recognition, Neurocomputing 167 (2015), 52-60.

• Internet of Things and Big Data Special Session; International Conference on Communications, Management and Information Technology ICCMIT 2017
• Computational intelligence methods for solving complex optimization problems Special Session; International Conference on Computational and Mathematical Methods in Science and Engineering CMMSE 2017
• Soft Computing Methods in Bioinformatics Special Session; International Conference on Soft Computing Models in Industrial and Environmental Applications SOCO2017
• Metaheuristics For Combinatorial Optimization And Modelling Complex Systems Special Session; International Conference Hybrid Artificial Intelligent Systems HAIS2012
• Emerging Technologies: IoT, BigData, and CPS with Sensory Systems, Special Issue in Sensors (Hindawi)
• AI and ML applied to Health Sciences (MLHS), Special Issue in Neural Computing and Applications