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Distinguished Lecturers Program

This program aims to serve communities interested in computational intelligence and, specifically, the CIS members who like to stay update on the latest research and practical applications by offering lectures from distinguished experts. Particular attention is given to the needs of professionals in industry and government.

Requests for lectures given by one of the CIS Distinguished Lecturers must be submitted by CIS Chapter Chairs to the Chair of the Distinguished Lecturer Program Sub-Committee, according to the procedure described below. Lecturers will tailor their presentations to the specific envisioned audience. This program is not intended to provide speakers for conferences, workshops or symposia.

Distinguished Lecturers Program Sub-Committee

Lectures Calendar

Requiring Distinguished Lectures

Distinguished Lecturers

Nominating and Appointing Distinguished Lecturers

Distinguished Lecturers Program Sub-Committee

Robert Kozma, Chair (2010) CLION, FedEx Institute of Technology Department of Mathematical Sciences University of Memphis 373 Dunn Hall Memphis, TN 38152, USA phone: (+1 901)-678-2497 fax: (+1 901)-678-2480 email: rkozma .a_t. memphis.edu www: cnd.memphis.edu

Piero P. Bonissone Chief Scientist, Coolidge Fellow General Electric Global Research,Computing and Decision Sciences Building K1- Room 5C32A, One Research Rd. Niskayuna, NY 12309, USA phone: (+1 518) 387 5155 fax: (+1 518) 387 5817 email: bonissone .a_t. crd.ge.com www: www.rpi.edu/~bonisp/

Gary (Gang) Feng Mechatronic Engineering Manufacturing Engineering and Engineering City University of Hong Kong 83 Tat Chee Avenue Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong phone: (852) 2788 8420 fax: (852) 2788 8423 email: megfeng .a_t. cityu.edu.hk www: www.cityu.edu.hk/me/staff/megfeng.htm

Emilio Del Moral Hernandez Department of Electronic Systems Engineering Polytechnic School, University of São Paulo Sao Paulo, Brazil email: emilio_del_moral .a_t. ieee.org www: www.lsi.usp.br/~emilio/

Bernadette Bouchon-Meunier LIP6, Université Pierre et Marie Curie 104 avenue du Président Kennedy 75016 Paris, France phone: (+33 1) 4427 7003 fax: (+33 1) 4427 7000 email: Bernadette.Bouchon-Meunier .a_t. lip6.fr www: webia.lip6.fr/~bouchon/indexeng.htm

Nikhil R. Pal Electronics and Communications Sciences Unit Indian Statistical Institute 203 BT Road Calcutta 700 108, India phone: (+91 33) 2575 2906 fax: (+91 33) 2577 3035 email: nikhil .a_t. isical.ac.in

Leszek Rutkowski Department of Computer Engineering Technical University of Czestochowa Armii Krajowej 36 Czestochowa 42-200, Poland phone: (+48 34) 325 0546 fax: (+48 34) 325 0546 email: lrutko .a_t. kik.pcz.czest.pl www: www.kik.pcz.czest.pl/~rutkowski

Kay C. Wiese School of Computing Science Simon Fraser University 250-13450 102nd Ave Surrey, BC V3T 0A3, Canada phone: 778-782-7436 fax: 778-782-8116 email: wiese .a_t. cs.sfu.ca www: www.cs.sfu.ca

Lectures Calendar

Requiring Distinguished Lectures

To organize a distinguished lecture, a CIS Chapter Chair should perform the following steps:

1. Based on the interests of the members, the Chapter Chair chooses a topic and lecture from the list of current DLP lecturers and topics. The chair should contact the lecturer directly, copying the DLP Chair (address above), and work out preliminary details of the visit (chapter event, date, location, etc.).
2. This preliminary information, including an estimate of the cost, should be sent to the DLP Chair for approval. In general, the Lecturer's travel expenses, incurred by the Lecturer, will be reimbursed up to a maximum of $1500. In principle local expenses (such as hotel, food, transport) should be provided by the local chapter.
3. After the visit is approved by the DLP chair, the Chapter Chair should contact the Lecturer to finalize arrangements. The lecture should be open to all members of IEEE. The chair is expected to publicize the event in the chapter or section newsletter and/or by special mailings to all members of the section. The event must be announced as "Sponsored by the Computational Intelligence Society under its Distinguished Lecturer Program", and the lecturer should be mentioned as a CIS Distinguished Lecturer. If other IEEE societies or other organizations have offered to support this chapter activity, then proper acknowledgment should also be made.
4. Immediately following the event, the Chapter Chair should send a summary report to the DLP chair including information on the date and title of the lecture, a copy of the announcement, etc.
5. The lecturer should retain receipts of all travel expenses, (See 6.2 above.) Following the event, the lecturer should complete the IEEE travel reimbursement form and send it by email or fax to the VP of Finances with copy to the DLP chair. Hardcopy of the spreadsheet and original receipts should be mailed to the IEEE CIS Executive Administrator. If travel expenses are incurred by the Chapter then the reimbursement procedure is the same.

Distinguished Lecturers

James C. Bezdek Milton, FL 32583, USA phone: (850) 995-1807 email: jcbezdek .a_t. gmail.com

Research Field: Pattern recognition, optimization, neural networks, fuzzy sets.
Lecture Topic 1: Introduction to fuzzy models. (for undergraduate audiences)
Lecture Topic 2: Introduction to clustering and classification. (for undergraduate audiences)
Lecture Topic 3: A variety of research talks (at the graduate level), covering topics such as: alternating optimization, clustering in very large data sets, clustering in incomplete data, cluster validity, visual cluster validity, system identification with fuzzy rule based systems, feature analysis, prototype classifiers, relational clustering, edge detection, self-organizing feature maps and image segmentation.
 

Piero P. Bonissone Chief Scientist, Coolidge Fellow General Electric Global Research,Computing and Decision Sciences Building K1- Room 5C32A, One Research Rd. Niskayuna, NY 12309, USA phone: (+1 518) 387 5155 fax: (+1 518) 387 5817 email: bonissone .a_t. crd.ge.com www: www.rpi.edu/~bonisp/

Research Field: Industrial and financial applications of computational intelligence.
Lecture Topic 1: Evolutionary algorithms + domain knowledge = real-world evolutionary computation.
Lecture Topic 2: From insurance underwriting to remaining-life forecasting in industrial processes: case studies in classification and predictions using soft computing methodologies.
Lecture Topic 3: The development and maintenance of fuzzy rule-based and case-based systems: life cycle issues.
 

Russell C. Eberhart Electrical and Computer Engineering Department Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) 723 West Michigan Street, SL-160 Indianapolis, IN 46206-5132, USA phone: (+1 317) 274 9721 fax: (+1 317) 274 4493 email: reberhar .a_t. iupui.edu www: www.engr.iupui.edu/~eberhart

Research Field: Computational intelligence.
Lecture Topic 1: Particle swarm optimization.
Lecture Topic 2: Evolving neural networks.
Lecture Topic 3: Biomedical applications of computational intelligence.
 

Pablo A. Estevez (Region 9) Department of Electrical Engineering Universidad de Chile Av Tupper 2007 Santiago, Chile 8370451, Chile phone: (+56 2) 978 4207 fax: (+56 2) 672 0162 email: pestevez .a_t. cec.uchile.cl www: www.cec.uchile.cl/~pestevez/

Research Field: Self-organizing neural networks, fuzzy min-max neural networks, evolutionary computation.
Lecture Topic 1: Data projection and visualization using self-organizing neural networks.
Lecture Topic 2: Fuzzy min-max neural networks for image segmentation.
Lecture Topic 3: Evolutionary computation: application to feature selection and nonlinear mappings.
 

David B. Fogel Lincoln Vale CA LP Natural Selection Inc. 9330 Scranton Rd., Suite 150 San Diego, CA 92121, USA phone: (+1 858) 455 6449 fax: (+1 858) 455 1560 email: dfogel .a_t. natural-selection.com www: www.natural-selection.com/people_dfogel.html

Lecture Topic 1: Evolutionary computation.
Lecture Topic 2: Neural networks.
Lecture Topic 3: Complex adaptive systems.
 

James M. Keller Electrical and Computer Engineering Department University of Missouri-Columbia 217 Engineering Building West Columbia, MO 65211-2060, USA phone: (+1 573) 882 7339 fax: (+1 573) 882 0397 email: KellerJ .a_t. missouri.edu www: www.missouri.edu/~kellerj

Research Field: Pattern recognition and computer vision.
Lecture Topic 1: Introduction to fuzzy set theory and fuzzy logic.
Lecture Topic 2: Computational models for linguistic spatial reasoning and human/machine interaction.
Lecture Topic 3: Soft computing for senor and algorithm fusion.
 

Robert J. Marks II Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Baylor University 1311 S. 5th Street, ECS 304B Waco, TX 76798-7356, USA phone: (+1 254) 710 7302 fax: (+1 254) 710 3839 email: r.marks .a_t. ieee.org www: www.RobertMarks.org

Research Field: Computational intelligence.
Lecture Topic 1: Swarm Intelligence: How Can We Learn From Stupid Bugs Doing Smart Things.
Lecture Topic 2: Conservation of Information in Search: Measuring the Cost of Success.
Lecture Topic 3: Algorithmic Information Theory Lessons from Godel, Turing and Chaitin: Some Things Computational Intelligence Will Never Do.
 

Jerry Mendel Department of Electrical Engineering University of Southern California 3740 McClintock Ave Los Angeles, CA 90089-2564, USA phone: (+1 213) 740 4445 fax: (+1 213) 740 4651 email: mendel .a_t. sipi.usc.edu www: sipi.usc.edu/~mendel

Research Field: Rule-based fuzzy logic systems, type-2 fuzzy sets and fuzzy logic systems, rule-based classification of ground vehicles, fuzzistics.
Lecture Topic 1: New directions in fuzzy logic systems.
Lecture Topic 2: Fuzzy sets for words: why type-2 fuzzy sets must be used.
Lecture Topic 3: Type-2 fuzzy sets: some questions and answers.
Lecture Topic 4: Perceptual Computing: One Implementation of Zadeh's Computing With Words Paradigm..
 

Nikhil R. Pal (2012) Electronics and Communications Sciences Unit Indian Statistical Institute 203 BT Road Calcutta 700 108, India phone: (+91 33) 2575 2906 fax: (+91 33) 2577 3035 email: nikhil .a_t. isical.ac.in

Research field: fuzzy systems, bioinformatics, data mining
 

Witold Pedrycz Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Alberta Alberta T6G 2G6 Edmonton, Canada phone: (+1 780) 492 4661 fax: (+1 780) 492 1811 email: pedrycz .a_t. ee.ualberta.ca www: www.ece.ualberta.ca/~pedrycz

Research Field: Granular computing and computational intelligence.
Lecture Topic 1: Fuzzy logic neurons and use-centric neurocomputing.
Lecture Topic 2: Knowledge-based fuzzy clustering
Lecture Topic 3: Foundations and Applications of Granular Computing
Note: These lectures could be offered at undergraduate as well as graduate level.
 

Marios M. Polycarpou (2012) Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Cyprus 75 Kallipoleos Avenue, PO Box 20537 Nicosia 1678, Cyprus phone: (+357) 2289 2252 fax: (+357) 2289 2260 email: mpolycar .a_t. ucy.ac.cy www: www.ece.ucy.ac.cy/en/people/mPolycarpou.html

Research field: neural networks, intelligent control, fault diagnosis
 

Enrique H. Ruspini Collaborative Intelligent Systems Laboratory European Centre for Soft Computing C/Gonzalo Gutiérrez Quirós, s/n Mieres, Asturias 94025, SPAIN phone: +34 985456545 fax: 33600 email: ruspini .a_t. ieee.org www: www.softcomputing.es/metaspace/portal/ecsc/38?pms=1, 125, 38007, view, normal, 0&id=31

Research Field: Reasoning under uncertainty and soft computing.
Lecture Topic 1: Intelligent control of disributed teams of robots.
Lecture Topic 2: Qualitative description of complex data objects.
Lecture Topic 3: Similarity/Knowledge-based indexing and retrieval.
 

Leszek Rutkowski (Region 8) Department of Computer Engineering Technical University of Czestochowa Armii Krajowej 36 Czestochowa 42-200, Poland phone: (+48 34) 325 0546 fax: (+48 34) 325 0546 email: lrutko .a_t. kik.pcz.czest.pl www: www.kik.pcz.czest.pl/~rutkowski

Lecture Topic 1: Flexible neuro-fuzzy systems and their applications to modelling and classification.
Lecture Topic 2: Probabilistic neural networks in stationary and time-varying environments.
Lecture Topic 3: Rough-neuro-fuzzy-genetic hybrid systems and their applications.
 

Evangelia Micheli-Tzanakou Department of Biomedical Engineering Rutgers University 617 Bowser Road Piscataway, NJ 08855-0909, USA phone: (+1 732) 445 2037 fax: (+1 732) 445 3753 email: etzanako .a_t. rci.rutgers.edu

Lecture Topic 1: Applications of computational intelligence (general).
Lecture Topic 2: Feature extraction in computational intelligence.
Lecture Topic 3: Brain fingerprinting in home security.
 

DeLiang Wang (2012) Department of Computer and Information Science Ohio State University 2015 Neil Avenue Columbus, OH 43210-1277, USA phone: (+1 614) 292 6827 fax: (+1 614) 292 2911 email: dwang .a_t. cis.ohio-state.edu www: www.cse.ohio-state.edu/~dwang

Research field: machine perception, scene analysis
 

Jun Wang (2012) Dept. of Mechanical & Automation Engineering The Chinese University of Hong Kong phone: +852 26098472 fax: +852 26036002 email: jwang .a_t. mae.cuhk.edu.hk www: www.mae.cuhk.edu.hk/~jwang

Research field: neural networks, intelligent control
 

Bernard Widrow Department of Electrical Engineering Stanford University 860 Lathrop Drive Stanford, CA 94305, USA phone: (+1 650) 857 9151 fax: (+1 650) 857 1783 email: widrow .a_t. stanford.edu www: www-isl.stanford.edu/~widrow

Research Field: TBA
Lecture Topic 1: TBA
Lecture Topic 2: TBA
Lecture Topic 3: TBA
 

Ronald R. Yager (2012) Machine Intelligence Institute Iona College New Rochelle, NY 10801, USA phone: 212 249 2047 email: Yager .a_t. Panix.Com www: www.panix.com/~yager/HP/rry.html

Research field: fuzzy systems
 

Xin Yao (Region 8) The Centre of Excellence for Research in Computational Intelligence and Applications School of Computer Science The University of Birmingham Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT, United Kingdom phone: (+44 121) 414 3747 fax: (+44 121) 414 2799 email: x.yao .a_t. cs.bham.ac.uk www: www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~xin/

Research Field: Evolutionary computation, neural network ensembles.
Lecture Topic 1: Automatic divide-and-conquer using populations and ensembles.
Lecture Topic 2: Co-evolution, games and social behaviors.
Lecture Topic 3: Evolutionary optimisation and constraint handling.
 

Lotfi A. Zadeh Computer Science Division University of California Berkeley, CA 94720, USA phone: (+1 510) 642 4959 fax: (+1 510) 642 1712 email: zadeh .a_t. cs.berkeley.edu www: www.cs.berkeley.edu/~zadeh

Research Field: Fuzzy logic and its applications.
Lecture Topic 1: Computing with words and perceptions - a paradigm shift in computing and decision analysis.
Lecture Topic 2: From search engines to question-answering systems - the need for new tools.
Lecture Topic 3: Perception-based decision analysis.
 

Jacek M. Zurada Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Louisville 405 Lutz Hall Louisville, KY 40292, USA phone: (+1 502) 852 6314 fax: (+1 502) 852 3940 email: jacek.zurada .a_t. louisville.edu www: ci.louisville.edu/zurada/

Lecture Topic 1: Data mining, neural networks and rule extraction.
Lecture Topic 2: Modeling of microelectronic fabrication facilitiy with NN and PCA.
Lecture Topic 3: Unsupervised and supervised learning.
Lecture Topic 4: Publishing successful papers in CSE and CIS.

Nominating and Appointing Distinguished Lecturers

CIS Distinguished Lecturers are nominated by following CIS members: Chapter chairs, TC chairs, EiCs, and AdCom/ExCom members. Nominations should be received by the DLP Chair May 1 of the year preceding the appointment. Nominations will be for a 3 years term that begins on 1 January of the subsequent year. The nominations will be initially ranked by the DLP Committee, and submitted for final ranking to the Chair of Members Activities Committee.

Nominations should be approved by the AdCom. Each year a maximum of 7 new speakers are appointed by the AdCom. Upon appointment, CIS Distinguished Lecturers should provide the DLP Chair with contact information and titles of their lectures.

The Lecturers will initially be appointed for 3-year terms and can be reappointed once. A period of one year should elapse before the Lecturers who have served their two consecutive 3-year terms become eligible for new appointment.

The Lecturers are recognized authorities in their respective fields. The Lecturers should be IEEE Fellows with IEEE CIS membership. Exceptional IEEE Senior Members who are members of IEEE CIS will be considered on a case by case basis.