Curriculum Vitae - Alexander Gelbukh

National and International
Awards
National and International
1. Member of Mexican Academy of Sciences since 2000.
In the Engineering section. This Academy includes 2040 regular members and 80
correspondent members; of those, 200 in the Engineering section (data 2008).
2. National Researcher of Mexico (member of SNI) since 1998, currently at the
excellence level 2.
The highest level is 3. There are 3,927 National Researchers of Mexico with levels
2 or 3; in total, 12,092 National Researchers of Mexico (data 2008). This title,
subject to re-evaluation every 4 years, includes a monetary prize of more than
$520,000 MXN (paid during the 4 years).
3. Best student paper award at the 2012 Mexican International Conference on
Artificial Intelligence, MICAI-2012, for the paper Fuzzy Clustering for Semi-
Supervised Learning—Case study: Construction of an Emotion Lexicon.
This conference received 224 submissions from 28 countries.
4. Best MSc thesis in Artificial Intelligence, third place (as advisor), at the 2012
national competition of MSc theses in Artificial Intelligence organized by the
Mexican Society of Artificial Intelligence (SMIA), for the thesis: Genración de
musica con gramaticas formales (Music generation with formal grammars);
student: Rodrigo Gabino Ramírez Moreno.
5. Best paper award (1 st place) at the 2011 Mexican International Conference on
Artificial Intelligence, MICAI-2011, for the paper SC spectra: A linear-time soft
cardinality approximation for text comparison.
This conference received 348 submissions from 40 countries.
6. Best PhD thesis in Artificial Intelligence, first place (as advisor), at the 2011
national competition of PhD theses in Artificial Intelligence organized by the
Mexican Society of Artificial Intelligence (SMIA), for the thesis: Automatic
extraction of lexical functions; student: Olga Kolesnikova (Russia).
7. Sabbatical stay grant from the CONACYT (Mexican Ministry of Science and
Technology) during 2010–2011 for a stay at Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan.
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