Speaker

Senén BARRO

Full Professor –Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence- - University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain

He graduated in Physics in 1985. In 1988 he obtained his PhD with distinction.

He was the rector of the University of Santiago de Compostela from 2002 to 2010.

Since May 2008 Senén Barro is the president of RedEmprendia, which is a university network made up of 24 universities from Spain, Portugal and Latin America. This network is focused on knowledge transfer, innovation and entrepreneurship.

He is the head of the Intelligent Systems Group, one of the most important spanish research groups in Artificial Intelligence. He is author or coordinator of seven books and author of close to 300 scientific articles in this field, and he has been a member of several scientific committees of international conferences and journals. He is one of the founders of SITUM Technologies, a spin-off of the University of Santiago de Compostela.

Publications :

• “Direct Parallel Perceptrons (DPPs): Fast Analytical Calculation of the Parallel Perceptrons Weights with Margin Control for Classification Tasks”, IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON NEURAL NETWORKS, Vol. 22, pp. 1837-1848, 2011, M. Fernandez-Delgado, J. Ribeiro, E. Cernadas, S. Barro
• “Linguistic Descriptions for Automatic Generation of Textual Short-Term Weather Forecasts on Real Prediction”, IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON FUZZY SYSTEMS, Vol. 23, pp. 44-57, 2015, A Ramos-Soto, A .Bugarin, S. Barro, J. Taboada
• “Polytope ARTMAP: Pattern Classification Without Vigilance Based on General Geometry Categories”, IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON NEURAL NETWORKS, Vol. 18, pp. 1306-1325, 2007, D. Gomes, M. Fernandez-Delgado, S. Barro
•  “Do we need hundreds of classifiers to solve real world classification problems?”, Journal of Machine Learning Research, Vol. 15, pp. 3133-3181, 2014, M. Fernandez-Delgado, E. Cernadas, S. Barro, D. Amorim
• “The Learning Cube”, Journal of Innovation Management JIM 3, 1, pp. 9-13, 2015, S. Barro