Professor Plamen Angelov

Professor

Profile

Prof. Angelov (PhD'93, DSc'15) holds a Chair in Intelligent Systems and leads AI group at the School of Computing and Communications. He also served as School's Director of Research (2020-2025) this year being on sabbatical. Prof. Angelov is founding Director of the Lancaster Intelligent, Robotic and Autonomous systems (LIRA) Centre which brings together 70+ academics/faculty across 15 Departments of the University. Prof. Angelov is a Fellow of the IEEE, of the IET, of ELLIS and of AAIA. He has over 400 publications in leading journals (like TPAMI, Information Fusion, IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, on Fuzzy Systems, etc.), peer-reviewed conference proceedings (such as CVPR, ICLR, AAAI, ICCV, ECCV, IEEE), 3 granted US patents, 3 research monographs (by Wiley, 2012 and Springer, 2002 and 2018) cited over 18600 times with an h-index of 66. Prof. Angelov is ranked top 0.2% (731th out of 399064 researchers in AI worldwide in 2024 ) according to theTop 2% Scientists” Stanford University’s list" and has 12 highly cited papers; around half of his publications are in top 10% venues according to SciVal. He has an active research portfolio in the area of interpretable (explainable-by-design) deep learning and internationally recognised results into explainable deep learning, evolving systems for streaming data and computational intelligence. Prof. Angelov leads numerous projects funded by UK research councils, EC, European Space Agency, DSTL, GCHQ, Royal Society, Faraday Institute, industry. He is recipient of the Dennis Gabor award (2020) for "outstanding contributions to engineering applications of neural networks", IEEE awards ‘For outstanding Services’ (2013 and 2017) and other awards. He is Editor-in-Chief of Springer’s journal Evolving Systems (recipient of Editorial Excellence awards for 2020 and 2024)and Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, IEEE Transactions on AI , IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems and other journals. He gave 40 keynote talks and was General co-Chair of a number of high profile IEEE conferences. He is founding Chair of the Technical Committee on Evolving Intelligent Systems, SMC Society of the IEEE and was previously chairing the Standards Committee of the Computational Intelligent Society of the IEEE (2010-2012) where he initiated and chaired the Work Group P2976 on the IEEE standard on explainable AI. He is the founding co-Director of one of the funded programmes by ELLIS (on Human-centred machine learning). He was also a member of International Program Committee of over 150 international conferences (primarily IEEE). More details can be found on his web page

Springer (Publisher)
Publication peer-review

IEEE (Publisher)
Publication peer-review

2014 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence, WCCI-2014
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

IEEE Press (Publisher)
Publication peer-review

IEEE Press (Publisher)
Publication peer-review

IEEE Press (Publisher)
Publication peer-review

IEEE Press (Publisher)
Publication peer-review

Evolving Hierarchical Fuzzy Systems
Types of External academic engagement - Hosting an academic visitor

IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (External organisation)
Membership of committee

Applied Soft Computing Journal (Journal)
Editorial activity

2013 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

2013 IEEE International Conference on Cybernetics, CYBCO-2013
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

Autonomous Learning Machines: Evolving Neuro-Fuzzy Representation of the Dynamic Intelligence
Invited talk

IEEE Press (Publisher)
Publication peer-review

2012 IEEE Conference on Evolving and Adaptive Intelligent Systems
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

Self-evolving Gaussian processes
Types of External academic engagement - Hosting an academic visitor

IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems (Journal)
Editorial activity

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Part B: Cybernetics (Journal)
Editorial activity

Soft Computing (Journal)
Editorial activity

Autonomous Learning - the true intelligence is evolving
Invited talk

Autonomous Learning Machines: Generating Rules from Data Streams
Invited talk

IEEE Press (Publisher)
Publication peer-review

2011 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence
Participation in workshop, seminar, course

Self-evolving fuzzy rule-based controllers
Types of External academic engagement - Hosting an academic visitor

Fuzzy Sets and Systems (Journal)
Editorial activity

IEEE (External organisation)
Membership of committee

Evolving Intelligent Systems: Methods and Applications
Invited talk

AISB (Publisher)
Publication peer-review

University Carlos III Madrid, Spain
Visiting an external academic institution

Journal of Automation, Mobile Robotics and Intelligent Systems (Journal)
Editorial activity

Open Journal on Cybernetics and Systemics (Journal)
Editorial activity

2010 IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Systems
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

UAV Passive Sense, Detect and Avoid Algorithm Development
Consultancy

Evolving Systems (Journal)
Editorial activity

IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence
Participation in workshop, seminar, course

Jose Iglesias
Hosting a Student (PhD)

3rd International Workshop on Genetic and Evolving Fuzzy Systems
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems (Journal)
Editorial activity

IEEE Press (Publisher)
Editorial activity

NTC on Autonomous Systems (External organisation)
Other Membership

Evolving Systems from Data Streams
Invited talk

2007 IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems, FUZZ-IEEE2007
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

Evolving Classifiers Development
Types of External academic engagement - Hosting an academic visitor

International Journal of Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Engineering Systems (Journal)
Editorial activity

University of Wolfenbuettel, Germany
Visiting an external academic institution

2006 IEEE International Symposium on Evolving Fuzzy Systems
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

Evolving Classifiers and Systems
Types of External academic engagement - Hosting an academic visitor

IEEE Press (Publisher)
Publication peer-review

IEEE Press (Publisher)
Editorial activity

Senior Member
Election to learned society

Santander Chair of Excellence
Appointment

Senior Member
Election to learned society

Special Innovation Award
Prize (including medals and awards)

Award for Aerospace and Defence
Prize (including medals and awards)

Founding Chair of the Technical Committee on Evolving Intelligent Systems
Appointment

Member of the Technical Committee on Fuzzy Systems
Appointment

Member
Appointment

Doctor of Sciences
Honorary degree

Fellow of the IEEE
Fellowship awarded competitively

Fellow of the IET
Fellowship awarded competitively

Honorary Professor
Honorary degree

Deniss Gabor award
Prize (including medals and awards)

Best paper award
Prize (including medals and awards)

Lancaster Intelligent, Robotic and Autonomous Systems Centre, LIRA - Fundamentals, LIRA - Security and Defence, Security Lancaster, Security Lancaster (Secure Machine Learning and Intelligence)

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Centre for Technological Futures
  • Cyber Security Research Centre (Data)
  • Digital Health Group
  • DSI - Foundations
  • European Lighthouse on Secure and Safe AI
  • Lancaster Intelligent, Robotic and Autonomous Systems Centre
  • LIRA - Advanced Manufacturing
  • LIRA - Biomedical
  • LIRA - Environmental Modelling
  • LIRA - Extreme Environments
  • LIRA - Fundamentals
  • LIRA - Security and Defence
  • LIRA - Smart Cities and Mobility
  • LIRA - Society and Human Behaviour
  • Network and Systems
  • SCC (Data Science)
  • Security Lancaster
  • Security Lancaster (Academic Centre of Excellence)
  • Security Lancaster (Secure Machine Learning and Intelligence)
  • Security Lancaster (Systems Security)