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Mikel Galar (Pamplona, 1986) received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science in 2009 and 2012, both from the Public University of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain. His Ph.D. was entitled “Ensembles of classifiers for multi-class classification problems: one-vs-one, imbalanced data-sets and difficult classes”. In 2009 he started working as a predoctoral researcher at the Public University of Navarra. In 2011, he became an assistant teacher (Profesor Ayudante). Afterwards, he obtained a position as assistant professor (Profesor Ayudante Doctor), then another as Associate Professor (Profesor Contratado Doctor) and currently, he is an Associate Professor (Profesor Titular de Universidad) at the Department of Statistics, Computer Science and Mathematics at the Public University of Navarre since 2021. He develops his teaching activities in Computer Science, both in bachelor and master degree. Currently, he is mentoring five PhD students.
Mikel Galar belongs to the research group of artificial intelligence and approximate reasoning (GIARA). His research interests are machine learning, classification, multi-classification, ensemble learning, evolutionary algorithms, fuzzy systems, big data and deep learning. He is the author of 50 published original articles in international journals (JCR) and has more than 80 contributions to conferences. His h-index is 26 with 4132 cites (according to Web of Science) and h-index 33 with almost 7960 cites (according to Google Scholar). He is also a reviewer of more than 40 international journals. He is a member of the IEEE, the European Society for Fuzzy Logic and Technology (EUSFLAT), and the Spanish Association of Artificial Intelligence (AEPIA). He has organized several special sessions about machine learning and fuzzy methods at international conferences and has been a member of the local organizing committee of 3 international conferences. He has also delivered several tutorials on Machine Learning with Big Data at international conferences.
He has received the extraordinary prize for his Ph.D. thesis from the Public University of Navarre and the 2013 IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems Outstanding Paper Award for the paper “A New Approach to Interval-Valued Choquet Integrals and the Problem of Ordering in Interval-Valued Fuzzy Set Applications” (bestowed in 2016).
During the last 10 years, he has taken part in 20 R&D projects funded through competitive calls of public entities (4 as PI) and 32 R&D non-competitive contracts with private entities (13 as PI). He has been actively involved in research transfer to the industry. He has collaborated with several large companies in Navarre for applying machine learning in their business. He is a co-founder of Neuraptic AI (https://www.neuraptic.ai), a Spin-off of the Public University of Navarre founded with Mikel Elkano and Mikel Uriz.