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