Rafael Esteban Bello P闁瀍z received his Bachelor degree in Mathematics and Computer Science (1982) at Universidad Central de Las Villas (UCLV), Santa Clara, Cuba and his PhD in Mathematics at UCLV in 1988. He has been a visiting scholar at some universities in Spain, Germany and Belgium. He is a Full Professor at Computer Science Department, UCLV, Cuba, and exhibits a long record of academic exchange with many universities in Latin America and Europe. He has taught more than 45 undergraduate and graduate courses in those academic centers.
He has developed over 90 papers in national and international scientific conferences and has published 6 books and 96 papers in proceedings and scientific journals. His research interests comprise heuristics methods, machine learning techniques and Soft Computing. He is the Director of the Center of Studies on Informatics at UCLV. He became a Member of AAAI in 2004. He leads the Computer Science project between the Flemish Interuniversity Council (VLIR) and UCLV and has deserved prestigious awards from the Cuban Academy of Sciences and other renowned scientific societies. |
