Alberto José Bugarín Diz

Alberto José Bugarín Diz is a Full Professor of Artificial Intelligence at the University of Santiago de Compostela (USC), where he serves as coordinator of the Intelligent Systems Group (GSI), founded in 1990 and recognized as a competitive reference group by the Xunta de Galicia since 2006. He previously served as Deputy Director of the School of Engineering of the University of Santiago de Compostela (ETSE) and currently acts as the USC coordinator of the Degree in Artificial Intelligence taught across the three universities in Galicia.

His research focuses on various areas of artificial intelligence and its applications, including natural language generation (Data-To-Text systems), soft computing, automatic learning, and approximate knowledge and reasoning representation. He has co-authored nearly 230 scientific papers and participated in over 63 R&D projects and innovation contracts, serving as principal researcher in 25 of them. His work spans healthcare applications, manufacturing processes, conversational agents, and linguistic descriptions of data, with particular emphasis on making AI systems more transparent and understandable to users.

Prof. Bugarín Diz is actively involved in the AI community, currently serving as a Board Member of the Spanish Society for Artificial Intelligence (AEPIA), Secretary of the Spanish Society for Natural Language Processing (SEPLN), and as a member of the Organizing Committee of the 27th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI), which took place in Santiago de Compostela in October 2024. He also participates in the TELSEC4TAI network about 'Trustworthy AI: technical, ethical, legal, cultural and socio-economic challenges.'

His recent publications reveal a strong focus on explainable AI, trustworthy systems, and the application of fuzzy logic to complex reasoning problems, particularly in medical diagnosis, automotive manufacturing, and conversational systems. His work consistently bridges theoretical AI concepts with practical applications that address real-world challenges in healthcare, industry, and human-computer interaction.

• Board Member, Spanish Society for Artificial Intelligence (AEPIA)
• Secretary, Spanish Society for Natural Language Processing (SEPLN)
• Organizing Committee Member, 27th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2024)
• Coordinator, Intelligent Systems Group (GSI)
• USC Coordinator, Degree in Artificial Intelligence (Galicia)