Patricia Melin holds the Doctor in Science degree (Doctor Habilitatus D.Sc.) in Computer Science from the Polish Academy of Sciences (with the Dissertation “Hybrid Intelligent Systems for Pattern Recognition using Soft Computing”). She is a Professor of Computer Science in the Graduate Division, Tijuana Institute of Technology, Tijuana, Mexico, since 1998. In addition, she is serving as Director of Graduate Studies in Computer Science and head of the research group on Computational Intelligence (2000-present). Currently, she is President of HAFSA (Hispanic American Fuzzy Systems Association and is the founding Chair of the Mexican Chapter of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society. She is Chair of the Task Force on Hybrid Intelligent Systems of Neural Networks Technical Committee of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society. She is member of NAFIPS, IFSA, and IEEE. She belongs to the Mexican Research System with level II. Her research interests are in Type-2 Fuzzy Logic, Modular Neural Networks, Pattern Recognition, Neuro-Fuzzy and Genetic-Fuzzy hybrid approaches. She has published over 70 journal papers, 5 authored books, 15 edited books, and 200 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) Denisse Hidalgo, Patricia Melin, Oscar Castillo: An optimization method for designing type-2 fuzzy inference systems based on the footprint of uncertainty using genetic algorithms. Expert Syst. Appl. 39(4): 4590-4598 (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) Patricia Melin, Olivia Mendoza, Oscar Castillo: An improved method for edge detection based on interval type-2 fuzzy logic. Expert Syst. Appl. 37(12): 8527-8535 (2010)

5) Denisse Hidalgo, Oscar Castillo, Patricia Melin: Type-1 and type-2 fuzzy inference systems as integration methods in modular neural networks for multimodal biometry and its optimization with genetic algorithms. Inf. Sci. 179(13): 2123-2145 (2009)

1) Program Chair of IFSA 2007 in Cancun, Mexico

2) Chair of HIMA 2009 in Nashville, USA

3) Chair of HIMA 2011 in Paris, France