The BICA Society Board of Directors, acting according to Bylaws of BICA Society, hereby confer a BICA Society Outstanding Research Award on Dr. Umberto Maniscalco for the work Presented at the Ninth Annual International Conference on Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures (BICA 2018), held on August 22-25 at the Czech Techical University in Prague, Czech Republic, as a part of the Joint Multi-Conference on Human-Level Artficial Intelligence (HLAI-18).