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Dr. David Elizondo is a Principal Lecturer in the Department of Computer Technology at 51Âþ»­. After completing his BA in Computer Science from Knox College , Galesbourg, Illinois, USA, he worked as a software engineer/lab manager for a latinoamerican agronomical research and teaching institute based in Costa Rica ( CATIE ). This institute, through a Swiss project, sponsored him to do a MS in Artificial Intelligence at the Department of Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Computing of the University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, USA. After this he obtained a PhD in computer science from the University of Strasbourg , France in cooperation with the Swiss Dalle Molle Institute for Perceptual Artificial Intelligence (IDIAP). He then worked for Neuvoice, formerly Neural Systems, a spin off company of the University of Plymouth , UK. As a senior researcher he worked in the development of an intelligent monitoring system for the petroleum industry. This system was based on neural network techniques. Later, he worked as a software architect for ACTERNA, an international company which supplies software/hardware solutions to telecom companies. He was part of the team developing QMS, a quality of service management system for leased lines. In parallel to this work, he was a part time lecturer at the University of Plymouth where he taught database, and data structures and algorithms.

The 51Âþ»­ Interdisciplinary Group in Intelligent Transport Systems (DIGITS)

I am also an active member of the following research groups:
(1) The Cyber Security Centre
(2) The Centre for Computational Intelligence (CCI).

I am the research leader of the CCI Neural Network subgroup, which is particularly well known internationally for the research work conducted in the area of Constructive Neural Networks and Linear Separability as evidenced by my on-going list of high quality publications in these two fields of research.

My research interests include both work in the theory and application of Neural Networks. Application areas include transport related problems that led to the development of DIGITS (iTRAQ project).

Artificial Neural Networks and Prolog programming.

• French Qualification: University Full Professor Qualification by the Conseille National des Universites (CNU). Artificial Neural Networks, Theory and Applications - 2008. 
• French Qualification: Senior Lecturer/Principal Lecturer (Maitre de Conferences) Qualification by the Conseille National des Universites (CNU) - 2003. 
• PhD in Computer Science from the University Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France and IDIAP, Martigny, Switzerland. The Recursive Deterministic Perceptron and some Strategies for Topology Reduction on Neural Networks -1998. 
• DEA in Computer Science from the University of Montpellier, Montpellier, France, Application of Neural Networks to a control process in a dynamic environment - 1993. 
• Master of Science in Artificial Intelligence from the University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, USA, Neural Network Models to Predict Solar Radiation and Plant Phenology - 1992.
• Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from Knox College, Galesburg, Illinois, USA - 1986.

Artificial Neural Networks and Prolog programming.

• Workshop Organizer for The British Computer Society Specialist Group on Artificial Intelligence (SGAI) International Conference in Artificial Intelligence for 2010.
• UK Computational Intelligence workshop (UKCI).
• IEEE International Conference in Artificial Neural Networks (2004,2005, 2006,2007, 2008, 2009).

IEEE Senior Member.

Organiser and chairman of the following special conference sessions:

• IEEE-WCCI-2012, Brisbane, Australia. Special session on Computational Intelligence for Privacy. (
• IEEE-WCCI-2010, Barcelona, Spain. Special session on Computational Intelligence for Privacy, Security, Forensics. (
• IEEE-ICANN-2008 Prague, Czech Republic. Special session on Constructive Neural Network Algorithms (http://www.icann2008.org/ssession.php). Contacted by Springer to produce a book of extended versions of these papers. The book will be published by January 2009.). Contacted by Springer to produce a book of extended versions of these papers. The book will be published by January 2009.
• IEEE-ICANN-2005 Warsaw, Poland. Special session on Knowledge Extraction (

National Conference Chairman

• Programme Chair Workshop on Computational Intelligence (UKCI), 51Âþ»­, Leicester, Sept 10-12 2008 (.

Large International Banana producer Company. Banana hand cut optimization using Artificial Intelligence Techniques.

2010-2013 John North. Associating Cause and Effect: Applying Computational Intelligence to Post-Incident Security Data. 51Âþ»­, Symantec.

2010-2014 Harold Kimball. Adaptive Security for Mobile Devices.

2013-2016 Simon Witheridge. Integrated Traffic Management and Air Quality Control.

• Associate editor for the IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems Journal (2.95 Impact Factor and in position 12 out of 111 according to the impact factor in the area of Artificial Intelligence)
• Reviewer of European FP7 research projects (2009)
• Referee for the Swiss National Science Foundation (2010)
• Industrial Liaison for the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (CSI), UKRI Chapter
• Workshop Organizer for The British Computer Society Specialist Group on Artificial Intelligence (SGAI)
• International Conference in Artificial Intelligence for 2010
• Senior Member of the IEEE
• Industrial Liaison for the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (CSI), UKRI Chapter.