Oscar Cordón
Oscar Cordón
Former Vice-President for Digital University (Universidad de Granada)
Oscar Cordón received his Ph.D. (1997) in Computer Science from the University of Granada, Spain, where he is a Full Professor (2011-) and was Founding Director of the Virtual Learning Center (2001-05) and Vice-President for Digital University (2015-2019).
He was a founding researcher of the European Centre for Soft Computing (2006-2015). He was awarded with the IEEE CIS Outstanding Early Career Award (2011), the Spanish National Award on Computer Science ARITMEL (2014), the IEEE Fellow grade (2018) and the IFSA Fellow (2019), among other recognitions. He was a member of the High-Level Expert Group that elaborated the Spanish R&D Strategy on AI (2019). He has published ~370 scientific publications (including 105 JCR-SCI-indexed journal papers), advised 19 Ph.D. dissertations, coordinated 38 research projects and contracts (with an overall amount of >9M€), and has a granted international patent under exploitation on an intelligent system for forensic identification. He is included in the 1% of most-cited researchers in the world (source: Web of Knowledge).
