Hani Hagras is a

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and

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from the

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, Colchester, UK was named

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(IEEE) in 2013 ''for contributions to fuzzy systems'' in particular for his work on Type-2 fuzzy sets and systems. He is also a Fellow of the IET and a Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (PFHEA), an award issued by

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. Prof. Hagras is Chair of the Centre for Computational Intelligence (C4CI), and co-chair of the Artificial Intelligence Research Group at the University of Essex. He is also Chief Scientific Officer at

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. Prof. Hagras research on Type-2 fuzzy sets and systems and

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has been funded by Innovate UK, European Commission, the UK Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), UK Technology Strategy Board (TSB), UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), UK Economics and Social Sciences Research Council (ESRC), the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE), the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (IB-BMBF), the Taiwan National Science Foundation, Korea-UK Science and Technology fund and industrial corporations. He has also served as Program Chair for international conferences such as IEEE Conference on Fuzzy Systems and serves as associate editor on top journals on the Area of Fuzzy Systems, Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, and Ambient Computing. He has published over 300 peer-review articles and has an

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of 52.

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