Ulises Cortés

He holds a PhD from the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education (1982) and a PhD from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC, 1984). In 1988 he founded the Knowledge, Engineering and Machine Learning Group at the UPC, which since then has been applying artificial intelligence to environmental challenges such as wastewater management. He is co-founder of SISLTECH (a company that offers advanced control solutions for treatment plants), of whose board of directors he was a member from 2011 to 2016. Since 2006 he has been Professor of Artificial Intelligence at the UPC and since 2017 he has led the High-Performance Artificial Intelligence group at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC). He focuses his research on the formation of concepts in knowledge-based systems, as well as in machine learning and autonomous intelligent agents. Throughout his long academic career, he has published more than 70 scientific articles in international journals and has supervised numerous doctoral theses. He is a founding member of the Catalan Association of Artificial Intelligence (ACIA) and of the Ethics Committee of the Polytechnic University of Catalonia. He is also a member of the Advisory Council on Artificial Intelligence, Ethics and Digital Rights of the city of Barcelona, the Observatory of Ethics in Artificial Intelligence of Catalonia (IAEAC), the executive board of the Spanish Association for Artificial Intelligence (AEPIA), the council of the European Association in Artificial Intelligence (EurAi), and the Global Alliance for Artificial Intelligence (GPAI). In 2023, the University of Girona awarded him the title of doctor honoris causa.