International recognition:
President of the Latin American Center for Computer Studies (CLEI). Period 2021-2024 (https://www.clei.org/).
GOT ENERGY TALENT fellowship programme of the EU for postdoctoral fellows (MSCA fellowships) in the University of Alcalá, October 2020-2022
LAAS Research Fellows, Laboratory for Analysis and Architecture of Systems, CNRS, Francia, 2021- actualmente (http://bit.do/fN9ib)
President IV Latin American Doctoral Thesis Competition, San Pablo Brasil, 2018; Panamá, 2019. (http://bit.do/fPogb)
Executive Secretary of the Latin American Center for Computer Studies (CLEI). Period 2016-2020 (https://www.clei.org/).
PROMETEO Scholarship of the Ecuadorian Government to conduct a research internship at the Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja and Escuela Politécnica Nacional, Ecuador, from October 2014- currently (researcher).
Scholarship Computer Intelligence Society (CIS)-IEEE to participate in the IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (IEEE WCCI) in Beijing, China, July 2014 (international competition among researchers from developing countries).
Chairman of the Scientific Committee of the XXXX Latin American Informatics Conference, CLEI 2014. Montevideo, Uruguay, September 2014
Chairman of the Scientific Committee of the XXXIX Latin American Informatics Conference, CLEI 2013. Caracas, Venezuela, October 2013
Grant as a guest researcher at the Université Paul Sabatier, March 2011-June 2011.
Member of the Technical Committee of the IEEE International Neural Networks (IEEE CIS Technical Committee on Neural Networks). January 2010 - Present (http://www.ieee-cis.org/technical/nntc/)
Award: Outstanding Student conferred by the Language and Culture Center at the University of Houston excellent English level 4 for the Fall semester 99. December 1999.
Scholarships:
-Of Excellence CONICIT-Venezuela, September 1999-December 2000, Post-Doctoral studies Houston, USA.
-Postdoctoral-for internships in France, CNRS-Cooperation Agreement CONICIT: May 1997 May 1998, May 1999.
- For Post-doctoral Internship in Italy, UNESCO-ICTP (International Centre for Theoretical Physics) September 1996.
-Of Excellence CONICIT-Venezuela, July 1991 - January 1995 for doctoral studies in France.
-Of Excellence CONICIT-Venezuela, July 1991 - January 1995 for doctoral studies in France.
Chair of various sessions at conferences, some of them: Session: "Algorithms and Computation II" 10th WSEAS International Conference on Computers, XXXII Conferencia Latinoamericana de Informática; Session "Control, Management and Applications", 11th WSEAS Intl Conf on Computers.
Award: Outstanding Achievement Award conferred by the International Institute of Informatics and Systemics by my participation in the organization of the World Multiconference on Systemic, Cybernetics and Informatics, July 1997.