The Board of Directors of the North American Fuzzy Information
Processing Society (NAFIPS) is happy to announce that this year, two
researchers will receive the Early Career Award:
Dr. Luciana Takata Gomes, Department of Physics, Chemistry and
Mathematics, Federal University of Sao Carlos – UFSCar, Sorocaba,
Sao Paulo, Brazil, and
Dr. Francisco Zapata, Instructor, Department of Computer Science,
University of Texas at El Paso, and Service Information Developer,
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Services.
This award is given to researchers within 5 years of their PhD
defense. Each awardee is expected to give a highlighted
presentation of his/her research at the next year's NAFIPS
conference — in this case, at NAFIPS'2017.
Dr. Gomes defended her PhD dissertation in 2014 on Fuzzy
Differential Equations. Her list of publications includes a
Springer book and 10 papers in academic journals and in the
proceedings of peer-refereed conferences, including 3 published
after her PhD defense.
Dr. Zapata defended his PhD dissertation in 2013 on Partial Orders
for Representing Uncertainty, Causality, and Decision Making:
General Properties, Operations, and Algorithms. His list of
publications includes a research monograph and 26 papers in
academic journals and in the proceedings of peer-refereed
conferences, including 15 published after his PhD defense.
Both received the Outstanding Paper Awards at the NAFIPS'2015
conference.
Congratulations to Dr. Gomes and Dr. Zapata!
On behalf of Board of Directors
Vladik Kreinovich
Chair, NAFIPS Early Career Award Committee