Oscar Castillo holds the Doctor in Science degree (Doctor Habilitatus) in Computer Science from the Polish Academy of Sciences (with the Dissertation “Soft Computing and Fractal Theory for Intelligent Manufacturing”). He is a Professor of Computer Science in the Graduate Division, Tijuana Institute of Technology, Tijuana, Mexico. In addition, he is serving as Research Director of Computer Science and head of the research group on fuzzy logic and genetic algorithms. Currently, he is Vice-President of HAFSA (Hispanic American Fuzzy Systems Association) and President Elect of IFSA (International Fuzzy Systems Association). Prof. Castillo is also Chair of the Mexican Chapter of the Computational Intelligence Society (IEEE). He belongs to the Mexican Research System with level III. He belongs to the Technical Committee on Fuzzy Systems of IEEE, where he is the Chair of the Task Force on Fuzzy Hardware and also belongs to the Task Force on “Extensions to Type-1 Fuzzy Systems”. He is also a member of NAFIPS, IFSA and IEEE. His research interests are in Type-2 Fuzzy Logic, Fuzzy Control, Neuro-Fuzzy and Genetic-Fuzzy hybrid approaches. He has published over 200 journal papers, 5 authored books, 30 edited books, 200 chapters in Edited Books and 300 papers in conference proceedings.

1) Oscar Castillo, Patricia Melin: A review on the design and optimization of interval type-2 fuzzy controllers. Appl. Soft Comput. 12(4): 1267-1278 (2012)

2) Oscar Castillo, Patricia Melin, Eduardo Ramírez, José Soria: Hybrid intelligent system for cardiac arrhythmia classification with Fuzzy K-Nearest Neighbors and neural networks combined with a fuzzy system. Expert Syst. Appl. 39(3): 2947-2955 (2012)

3) Patricia Melin, Olivia Mendoza, Oscar Castillo: Face Recognition With an Improved Interval Type-2 Fuzzy Logic Sugeno Integral and Modular Neural Networks. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part A 41(5): 1001-1012 (2011)

4) Cecilia Leal Ramírez, Oscar Castillo, Patricia Melin, Antonio Rodríguez Díaz: Simulation of the bird age-structured population growth based on an interval type-2 fuzzy cellular structure. Inf. Sci. 181(3): 519-535 (2011)

5) Oscar Castillo, Patricia Melin, Arnulfo Alanis Garza, Oscar Montiel, Roberto Sepúlveda: Optimization of interval type-2 fuzzy logic controllers using evolutionary algorithms. Soft Comput. 15(6): 1145-1160 (2011)

1) Chair of IFSA 2007 in Cancun Mexico

2) Chair of IMECS 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012 in Hong Kong, China

3) Program Chair of NAFIPS 2017 in Cancun, Mexico