El Paraninfo de las Escuelas Mayores de la Universidad acogió ayer el acto del nombramiento de Juan Manuel Corchado, director del Grupo BISITE de la Universidad de Salamanca y presidente de AIR Institute, como miembro de la Real Academia de Medicina de Salamanca.

El acto fue presidido por Santiago Lozano Sánchez, presidente de la Real Academia de Medicina de Salamanca; y contó con la asistencia de David Díez, vicerrector de Ordenación Académica y Profesorado de la USAL; Cándido Martín Luengo, vicepresidente de la Real Academia de Medicina de Salamanca; y Juan Fernando Masa Jiménez, secretario general de la Real Academia de Medicina de Salamanca.

Real Academia de Medicina

Juan Manuel Corchado durante el acto de imcorporación a la Real Academia de Medicina

Salamanca es de las primeras academias en incorporar un miembro especializado en inteligencia artificial, tecnología que está y seguirá revolucionando tanto este como otros ámbitos. Durante la sesión y tras la lectura del acta, Corchado presentó la charla titulada “El despertar de una inteligencia global”, una gran oportunidad para acercar a los asistentes al estado actual de la IA a nivel mundial.

La anexión de Corchado abrirá las puertas a nuevos proyectos relacionados con la incorporación de las nuevas tecnologías en la medicina. El Grupo de Investigación BISITE ha desarrollado varios proyectos, sobre todo en el ámbito de la biomedicina y esperamos que este sea el inicio de grandes iniciativas para promover una mayor presencia de la inteligencia artificial y otras tecnologías en este sector.

Escrito por Juan M. Corchado

Juan Manuel Corchado (15 May 1971, Salamanca, Spain) is Professor at the University of Salamanca. He has been Vice-Rector for Research from 2013 to 2017 and Director of the Science Park of the University of Salamanca. Elected as Dean of the Faculty of Science twice, he holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Salamanca and a PhD in Artificial Intelligence from the University of the West of Scotland. He leads the renowned BISITE (Bioinformatics, Intelligent Systems and Educational Technology) Research Group, created in 2000. Director of the IoT Digital Innovation Hub and President of the AIR Institute, J. M. Corchado is also Visiting Professor at the Osaka Institute of Technology since January 2015, Visiting Professor at the Universiti Malaysia Kelantan and Member of the Advisory Group on Online Terrorist Propaganda of the European Counter Terrorism Centre (EUROPOL). J. M. Corchado has been president of the IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics Society, and academic coordinator of the University Institute for Research in Art and Animation Technology at the University of Salamanca, as well as researcher at the Universities of Paisley (UK), Vigo (Spain) and the Plymouth Marine Laboratory (UK). He currently combines all his activity with the direction of Master programmes in Security, Digital Animation, Mobile Telephony, Information Systems Management, Internet of Things, Social Media, 3D Design and Printing, Blockchain, Z System, Industry 4.0, Agile Project Management, and Smart Cities & Intelligent Buildings, at the University of Salamanca and his work as editor-in-chief of the journals ADCAIJ (Advances in Distributed Computing and Artificial Intelligence Journal), OJCST (Oriental Journal of Computer Science and Technology) or Electronics MDPI (Computer Science & Engineering section). J. M. Corchado mainly works on projects related to Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Blockchain, IoT, Fog Computing, Edge Computing, Smart Cities, Smart Grids and Sentiment Analysis. He has recently been included in the board of trustees of the AstraZeneca Foundation, along with other health professionals and researchers recognised for bringing scientific knowledge closer to society.