Laura Garcia-Hernandez

LAURA GARCÍA-HERNÁNDEZ received the M.Sc. degree in computer science from the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain, in 2007, and the European Ph.D. degree in Engineering from the University of Córdoba, Spain, and also from the Institut Français de Mécanique Avancée, Clermont-Ferrand, France, in 2011. She has been an Invited Professor during a semester in the Institut Français de Mécanique Avancée, Clermont-Ferrand. She is currently an Associate Professor in the Area of Project Engineering at...See more

LAURA GARCÍA-HERNÁNDEZ received the M.Sc. degree in computer science from the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain, in 2007, and the European Ph.D. degree in Engineering from the University of Córdoba, Spain, and also from the Institut Français de Mécanique Avancée, Clermont-Ferrand, France, in 2011. She has been an Invited Professor during a semester in the Institut Français de Mécanique Avancée, Clermont-Ferrand. She is currently an Associate Professor in the Area of Project Engineering at the University of Córdoba, Spain. Her primary areas of research are engineering design optimization, intelligent systems, machine learning, user adaptive systems, interactive evolutionary computation, project management, risk prevention in automatic systems, and educational technology. In these fields, she has authored or co-authored more than 70 international research publications. She has given several invited talks in different countries. She has realized several postdoctoral internships in different countries with a total duration of more than two years. She received the prestigious National Government Research Grant ''José Castillejo'' for supporting their post-doc research during six months in the University of Algarve, Portugal. She has been an Investigator Principal in two Spanish research projects and has also been an Investigator Collaborator in some research contracts and projects. She is an Expert Member of ISO/TC 184/SC working team and the National Standards Institute of Spain (UNE). Moreover, she is a member of the Spanish Association of Engineering Projects (IPMA Spain). Considering her research, she received the Young Researcher Award granted by the Spanish Association of Engineering Projects (IPMA), Spain, in 2015. Additionally, she received two times the General Council of Official Colleges Award at prestigious International Conference on Project Management and Engineering both 2017 and 2018 editions. She is the Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Information Assurance and Security. Also, she is an Associate Editor in the following ISI Journals: Applied Soft Computing, Complex & Intelligent Systems, and Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing. See less