Short CV of Ildar Batyrshin

Ildar Batyrshin graduated from the Moscow Physical-Technical Institute (MIPT), Faculty of Control and Applied Mathematics. He received his PhD from the Moscow Power Engineering Institute (MPEI TU) and Dr.Sc. (Habilitation) from the Higher Attestation Committee of Russian Federation.

After finishing MIPT he joined the Department of Informatics and Applied Mathematics of Kazan State Technological University (currently National Research Technological University), Kazan, Russia, and served as the Department Head in 1997-2003. Since 1999, he was also a leading researcher of the Institute of Problems of Informatics of Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Tatarstan, Russia.

In 2003 he joined the Research Program of Applied Mathematics and Computations of Mexican Petroleum Institute (IMP) as a Distinguished  Invited Researcher and later as a leading researcher, head of project and professor of postgraduate education.

Since 2014 he is the Titular Professor C of the  Center for Computing Research (CIC) of National Polytechnic  Institute (IPN), Mexico.

He is a member of IEEE SMC Board of Governors, Senior Member of IEEE CI and SMC Societies, a member of the Management Committee of IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence, and a member of the award committee of IEEE Lotfi A. Zadeh Award for Emerging Technologies. He is PC Co-Chair of IEEE SMC 2023 Conference, Hawaii, USA.

He is the Past President of the Mexican Society for Artificial Intelligence (SMIA) and the Past President of the Russian Association for Fuzzy Systems and Soft Computing (RAFSSoftCom). He is a member of NAFIPS Board of Directors, and SMIA Board. He served as a Secretary of Society of Mathematical Uncertainty, a member of IFSA council, and a member of the Council of the Russian Association for Artificial Intelligence.

His awards: National Researcher Emeritus of Mexico and SNI level 3 (highest) of the National System of Researchers (SNI) of Mexico; Fellow of IFSA, SMIA, RAFSSoftCom; Honorary Professor of Obuda University, Budapest, Hungary; Honorary Researcher of the Republic of Tatarstan, Russia; 1st Prize for the Best Research of Mexican Petroleum Institute in 2007 for the Development of Expert System in Diagnostics of Water Production, SMART-Agua; State Research Fellowship of the Presidium of Russian Academy of Sciences for Distinguished Researchers (1997-2003).

He is an associate editor or a member of editorial boards of several scientific journals: Journal of Intelligent and Fuzzy Systems, Acta Polytechnica Hungarica, Computacion y Sistemas, Polibits, Computer Engineering and Applications Journal (ComEngApp), Iskusstvennyi Intellekt y Prinyatije Resheniy, Programmnye Produkty i Sistemy, Nechetkie Sistemy i Myagkie Vychisleniya. 

He served as a Co-Chair of Program or Organizing Committees of more than 12 International Conferences on Soft Computing, Artificial Intelligence, Computational Intelligence and Data Mining in USA, China, Brazil, Azerbaijan, Mexico, and Russia. He presented Keynote, Plenary and Invited Talks, and Tutorials on more than 15 International Conferences and Workshops.

He is a co-author and co-editor of more than 20 books and special volumes of journals.