Dr. Laura García-Hernández
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Universidad de Córdoba, Spain
Dr. Laura García-Hernández is Assistant Professor in the Area of Project Management at the University of Córdoba (Spain). She received M.Sc. in Computer Science in 2007 from Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (Spain) and European Ph.D. in the field of Engineering in 2011 from the University of Córdoba (Spain) and Institut Français de Mécanique Avancée (Clermont-Ferrand, France). Dr. García-Hernández 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/co-authored more than 50 research publications. She has given several invited talks in different countries. Considering her research, she has won the Young Researcher Award granted by the Spanish Association of Engineering Projects (IPMA Spain) in 2015. Additionally, she has won two times the General Council of Official Colleges Award at prestigious International Conference on Project Management and Engineering both 2017 and 2018 editions. She has realized several post-doc internships in different countries with a total duration of more than 2 years. She has been invited Prof. during a semester in the Institut Français de Mécanique Avancée (Clermont-Ferrand, France). She won the prestigious National Government Research Grant “José Castillejo” for supporting their post-doc research during 6 moths in the University of Algarve (Portugal) in 2018. Dr. García-Hernández has been investigator principal in two Spanish research projects and she has been investigator collaborator in some research contracts and projects. She is an expert member of ISO/TC 184/SC working team and National Standards Institute of Spain (UNE). Moreover, she is a member of the Spanish Association of Engineering Projects (IPMA Spain). She is the Co-editor-in-Chief of Journal of Information Assurance and Security and is the Program Chair of 19th International Conference on Hybrid Intelligent Systems (HIS 2019) and the 11th World Congress on Nature and Biologically Inspired Computing (NaBIC 2019). Dr. García-Hernández is a regular reviewer for more that 18 International Journals indexed by Thomson ISI and is actively involved in the committee program of several international conferences.