Prof. Patricia Melin has been a professor of computer science in the graduate division of the Tijuana Institute of Technology, Tijuana, Mexico, since 1998. In addition, she serves as the director of graduate studies in computer science and is head of the research group on Hybrid Neural Intelligent Systems (2000–present). She holds a Doctor of Science degree (Doctor Habilitatus D.Sc.) in computer science from the Polish Academy of Sciences. Prof. Melin has published nearly 900 publications in indexed journals, book chapters, and conference proceedings and nearly 50 books.  In addition, she was awarded the Highly Cited Researcher recognition in the area of computer science in 2017 and 2018 by Clarivate Analytics because she is in the top 1% of cited authors in this area. She has also been the advisor of more than 80 graduate students in Computer Science at the Ph.D. and master's degree levels. She is a past president of the North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society (NAFIPS), 2019–2020. Prof. Melin is the founding chair of the Mexican chapter of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society. She is a member of the IEEE Neural Network Technical Committee (2007 to present) and the IEEE Fuzzy System Technical Committee (2014 to present), chair of the Task Force on Hybrid Intelligent Systems (2007 to present), and she is currently associate editor of the Information Sciences Journal.