The VII Brazilian Congress on Fuzzy Systems (CBSF) was held from October 20 to 22, 2025 at the Brazilian Center for Research in Energy and Materials (CNPEM) in Campinas, São Paulo. The event brought together over 100 researchers, students and professionals from the fields of control, artificial intelligence, applied mathematics and related sciences. The event marked six decades since Lotfi Zadeh proposed the theory of fuzzy sets and systems in 1965, and highlighted the growing role of this approach in various areas of science and technology.
Participants of the Fuzzy Congress 2025 (CNPEM Outreach)
“The participants, who came from all over the country, raved about the event and were already looking forward to the next edition, which will take place at UESC in Ilhéus [Bahia] in 2027. Notably, several Ilum students served as volunteers and two were also awarded prizes,” said Vinícius Francisco Wasques, a professor at Ilum and organizer of the event.
The awards in question went to Yasmin Shimizu, who won best poster in the student category, and Matheus Zaia, who received an honorable mention for his oral presentation, also in the student category.
Held at the Ilum School of Science’s Learning Center, the congress featured 6 lectures, 2 mini-courses, 18 technical sessions and over 90 panels and presentations, providing an environment for exchanging experiences and refreshing scientific knowledge. This edition focused on reviewing the theoretical foundations of logic and fuzzy systems as well as their applications in artificial intelligence, robotics, biomedicine, signal processing and pattern recognition.
The 2025 edition consolidated the Brazilian Congress on Fuzzy Systems as South America’s largest scientific event dedicated to fuzzy systems and their applications, reaffirming the importance of Brazil among the international community dedicated to this subject.
About the Ilum School of Science
Ilum offers a free undergraduate degree program that utilizes an interdisciplinary approach to train scientists and professionals in science and technology. With an innovative educational model, the three-year full-time bachelor program offers courses that connect life sciences, materials science, data science, artificial intelligence, and the humanities in order to prepare researchers to work in an ethical and collaborative manner in the search for solutions to the global challenges of the twenty-first century. The Ilum School of Science is funded by the Brazilian Ministry of Education (MEC) and is part of the Brazilian Center for Research in Energy and Materials (CNPEM) in Campinas, São Paulo, a social organization overseen by the Ministry of Science, Technology, and Innovation (MCTI). Ilum's educational mission offers early contact with experimental activities, in teaching labs at the school as well as at CNPEM, in projects carried out together with researchers.
About CNPEM
The Brazilian Center for Research in Energy and Materials (CNPEM) is home to a state-of-the-art, multi-user and multidisciplinary scientific environment and works on different fronts within the Brazilian National System for Science, Technology and Innovation. A social organization overseen by the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (MCTI), CNPEM is driven by research that impacts the areas of health, energy, renewable materials, and sustainability. It is responsible for Sirius, the largest assembly of scientific equipment constructed in the country, and is currently constructing Project Orion, a laboratory complex for advanced pathogen research. Highly specialized science and engineering teams, sophisticated infrastructure open to the scientific community, strategic lines of investigation, innovative projects involving the productive sector, and training for researchers and students are the pillars of this institution that is unique in Brazil and able to serve as a bridge between knowledge and innovation. CNPEM’s research and development activities are carried out through its four National Laboratories: Synchrotron Light (LNLS), Biosciences (LNBio), Nanotechnology (LNNano), Biorenewables (LNBR), as well as its Technology Unit (DAT) and the Ilum School of Science — an undergraduate program in Science and Technology supported by the Ministry of Education (MEC).
