Biography

Javier Andreu-Perez (PhD, MSc, BSc, HEA, EPSRC ACM, SMIEEE) is for the present holder of a Senior Talentia Fellow (award) at the Intelligent Systems Based Fuzzy Decision Analysis, University of Jaen (Spain). He is also (tenured) Senior Lecturer (Assoc. Professor) and Chair of the Smart Health Technologies Group within the Centre for Computational Intelligence, University of Essex (UK). He was postdoc researcher at Imperial College London (UK), where he was awarded best post-doc research in Computer Sciences (2017). He as also been awarded grants at national and international level, including support from IT corporations such as Amazon, Oracle, Nvidia.

His research is within the field of Human-Centred AI, that focus on the research and development problem-driven disruptive AI to be used for and to enhance humans. Most of his research applications have had major impact in the fields of digital health, neuro-engineering, and industrial informatics. His scientific backgrounds are in the field of bio-inspired AI from Neural Networks and Evolutionary systems from a soft-computing treatment. Beyond problem-solving and performance, and great deal of his research focus on addressing questions of transparency, autonomy, bias and responsibility for the foreseen intelligent system. As a result of his large experience collaborating with the industry, he is also acquainted of DevOps and full-stack developer skills, and how to transform theoretical research to tangible goods/services.