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Patricia Melin holds the Doctor in Science degree (Doctor Habilitatus D.Sc.) in Computer Science from the Polish Academy of Sciences (with the Dissertation “Hybrid Intelligent Systems for Pattern Recognition using Soft Computing”). She is a Professor of Computer Science in the Graduate Division, Tijuana Institute of Technology, Tijuana, Mexico, since 1998. In addition, she is serving as Director of Graduate Studies in Computer Science and head of the research group on Computational Intelligence (2000-present). Currently, she is President of HAFSA (Hispanic American Fuzzy Systems Association). She was Program Chair of the IFSA 2007 World Congress held in Cancun, Mexico and Chair of HIMA 2009 Workshop held in Nashville, USA. Prof. Melin is the founding Chair of the Mexican Chapter of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society. She belongs to the IEEE Neural Network Technical Committee (since 2007) and also belongs to the IEEE CIS Senior Member Committee (since 2009). She has also served on the IEEE CIS Educational Committee (2007-2009), and the Committee of Women in Computational Intelligence of the IEEE (2007-2009). Prof. Melin is also chair of the Task Force on “Hybrid Intelligent Systems” of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (since 2006). She is member of NAFIPS, IFSA, HAFSA and IEEE. She belongs to the Mexican Research System (SNI) with level II. Her research interests are in Type-2 Fuzzy Logic, Modular Neural Networks, Pattern Recognition, Neuro-Fuzzy and Genetic-Fuzzy hybrid approaches. She has published over 60 journal papers, 6 authored books, 11 edited books, and 200 papers in conference proceedings. She has served as Guest Editor of several Special Issues in the past for important journals in computational intelligence.