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Neural Networks TC

Name

This organization is known as the Neural Networks Technical Committee (NNTC) of the Computational Intelligence Society (CIS) of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, Inc. (IEEE).

Purpose and Scope

The purpose of the NNTC is to promote the research, development, education, and understanding of neural networks, including both artificial and biologically plausible neural networks.

Membership

The NNTC is open to all members of the CIS, as well as to other technical professionals as affiliates. There are three grades of members: core, regular, and affiliate. Core members are those who regularly participate in NNTC activities and meetings and shall be eligible to vote on matters before the committee. Regular members are those who have an interest in the Committee activities but are unable to actively participate. Regular members automatically become core members when present at an NNTC meeting. Affiliates are non-CIS members who have an interest in NNTC activities and may attend NNTC meetings as observers, but are eligible to vote on matters before the committee.

Officers

The NNTC Chair shall be appointed by the President of the CIS based on the recommendations from the Vice President-Technical Activities (VP-TA) and Committee, for a one-year term and up to a maximum of three terms. Each November, the NNTC in consultation with VP-TA shall make recommendation to the President for appointment as NNTC Chair for the following year.

Funding

There is no membership fee for joining the NNTC. Funding for the committee shall be provided by the CIS in the annual budget request. Once approved by the CIS ExCom and AdCom, funds will be available to support the NNTC activities. The Chair shall be responsible for the appropriate use of the approved funds with supporting documentation.

Activities

The NNTC shall engage in various activities in order to promote neural networks as a viable technology, including but not limited to the following: Identify and promote new areas of research, propose special sessions to the CIS-sponsored conference organizers, participate in paper review and selection for CIS-sponsored conferences and publications, coordinate with the International Neural Network Society for the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, recommend candidates to the Awards Committee for the CIS Neural Networks Pioneer Award and the Technical Field Award, nominate papers for Best Paper Awards to the Awards Committee from papers published in the Transactions on Neural Networks, promote IEEE Senior Members and Fellows program, collaborate on production of tutorials and book series with the Multimedia Committee, maintain the Committee’s website, facilitate local chapters activities an organize specialized workshops or meetings. The NNTC will assist in soliciting conference proposals and actively work with the organizers of CIS-sponsored conferences to insure their technical excellence.

Meetings

Meetings will be called by the Chair once or twice a year, usually in conjunction with the CIS AdCom meetings and the annual International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, or as requested by the NNTC members. Sufficient advance notice of the meetings will be given to the members, as well as to other interested parties. The Chair shall prepare an agenda before the meeting, and shall prepare minutes for distribution after the meeting.

Amendments

This Charter becomes official after at least 2/3 core members present at The Committee Meeting approves it. Subsequent changes and amendments also require 2/3 majority vote.

Members

Cesare Alippi, Chair (2010) Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione Politecnico di Milano Piazza L. da Vinci, 32 Milano 20133, Italy phone: (+39 022) 399 3512 (MI), (+39 034) 148 2772 (LC) fax: (+39 022) 399 3411 email: alippi .a_t. elet.polimi.it www: home.dei.polimi.it/alippi/

Leonid Perlovsky, Vice Chair (2010) Principal Research Physicist and Technical Advisor Air Force Research Laboratory Harvard University 33 Oxford St, Rm 336 Cambridge, MA 02138, USA phone: 781-377-1728 fax: 781-377-8984 email: leonid.perlovsky .a_t. hanscom.af.mil www: www.leonid-perlovsky.com/

Pau-Choo (Julia) Chung, Vice Chair (2010) Department of Electrical Engineering National Cheng Kung University No. 1, University Road Tainan 70101, Taiwan phone: +886-6-275-7575 ext. 62373 fax: +886-6-234-5482 email: pcchung .a_t. ee.ncku.edu.tw www: smile.ee.ncku.edu.tw/?q=en-us

Jose Aguilar Computacion Universidad de los Andes Nucleo la Hechicera Merida, Merida 5101, Venezuela phone: 58.274.2402914 fax: 58.274.2402872 email: aguilar .a_t. ula.ve

Ivo Bukovsky Assistant Professor Department of Instrumentation and Control Engineering Division of Automatic Control and Engineering Informatics, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering Czech Technical University Prague, Czech Republic email: Ivo.Bukovsky .a_t. fs.cvut.cz

Ke Chen School of Computer Science the Universityof Manchester Kilburn Building, Oxford Road Manchester M13 9PL, United Kingdom phone: 44-161-306-4565 fax: 44-161-275-6204 email: chen .a_t. cs.manchester.ac.uk www: www.manchester.ac.uk/cs/people/chen

Gerard Dreyfus ESPCI-Paristech SIGnal processing and MAchine learning (SIGMA) laboratory 10, rue Vauquelin PARIS 75005, FRANCE email: gerard.dreyfus .a_t. espci.fr www: www.neurones.espci.fr/utilisateurs/Dreyfus/public_html/dreyfus.htm

Wlodzislaw Duch Dept. of Computer Methods Nicholaus Copernicus University Grudziadzka 5 Torun 87-100, Poland phone: (+48 56) 622 1543 fax: (+48 56) 622 1543 email: wduch .a_t. is.umk.pl www: www.is.umk.pl/~duch

Pablo A. Estevez 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/

Anya Getman Department of Computer Science and Engineering/171 University of Nevada Reno Reno 89557, USA phone: 313 478 2614 fax: 775 784 1877 email: ieeecis .a_t. haremhills.com www: www.cse.unr.edu/~anya/

Haibo He Electrical and Computer Engineering Stevens Institute of Technology Burchard 412 Hoboken, NJ 07030, USA phone: (201)216-8057 fax: (201)216-8246 email: hhe .a_t. stevens.edu www: www.ece.stevens-tech.edu/~hhe/

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/

Akira Hirose Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Systems The University of Tokyo 7-3-1 Hongo Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8656, Japan phone: +81-3-5841-6695 fax: +81-3-5841-7492 email: ahirose .a_t. ee.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp www: www.eis.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp

Zeng-Guang Hou Institute of Automation The Chinese Academy of Sciences P.O. Box 2728 Beijing 100190, China phone: +86 (10) 6256 5502 fax: +86 (10) 6256 5502 email: zengguang.hou .a_t. ia.ac.cn www: compsys.ia.ac.cn/~hou/

Giacomo Indiveri Institute of Neuroinformatics University of Zurich and ETH Zurich email: giacomo .a_t. ini.phys.ethz.ch www: www.ini.uzh.ch/~giacomo/group

Nikola Kasabov Knowledge Engineering and Discovery Research Institute (KEDRI) School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences, Auckland University of Technology Level 7, 350 Queen Street Auckland 1010, New Zealand phone: +64 9 921 9506 fax: +64 9 921 9543 email: nkasabov .a_t. aut.ac.nz www: www.kedri.info

Irwin King Department of Computer Science & Engineering The Chinese University of Hong Kong Shatin, NT Hong Kong, China phone: (852) 2609-8398 fax: (852) 2603-5024 email: king .a_t. cse.cuhk.edu.hk www: wiki.cse.cuhk.edu.hk/irwin.king/

Li-Wei Ko Brain Research Center / College of Electrical Engineering National Chiao Tung University 1001 University Road Hsinchu 300, Taiwan phone: +886-919-339-88 fax: +886-3-572 6272 email: Lwko.ece93g .a_t. gmail.com www: brc.nctu.edu.tw/lwko/

Robert Kozma 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

George G. Lendaris Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Portland State University P.O. Box 751 Portland, OR 97207, USA phone: (+1 503) 725 4988 email: lendaris .a_t. sysc.pdx.edu www: www.sysc.pdx.edu/faculty/Lendaris/lendaris.html

Derong Liu Institute of Automation Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing 100190, China Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Illinois Chicago, IL 60607, USA email: ieeetnn .a_t. gmail.com www: www.ece.uic.edu/~derong/

Patricia Melin Division of Graduate Studies-Computer Science Tijuana Institute of Technology Tijuana, Mexico email: pmelin .a_t. tectijuana.mx www: www.hafsamx.org/melin

Ali Minai Electrical & Computer Engineering University of Cincinnati ML 30 Cincinnati, OH 45221-0030, USA phone: +1 513 556 4783 fax: +1 513 556 7326 email: Ali.Minai .a_t. uc.edu www: www.ece.uc.edu/~aminai/

Seiichi Ozawa Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering Kobe University 1-1 Rokko-dai Kobe, Hyogo 657-8501, Japan phone: +81-78-803-6466 fax: +81-78-803-6466 email: ozawasei .a_t. kobe-u.ac.jp www: www2.kobe-u.ac.jp/~ozawasei/

Robi Polikar Electrical & Computer Engineering Rowan University 201 Mullica Hill Road Glassboro, New Jersey 08028, USA phone: +1 856 256 5372 fax: +1 856 256 5241 email: polikar .a_t. rowan.edu www: users.rowan.edu/~polikar/RESEARCH

Marios M. Polycarpou 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

Johan Suykens Department of Electrical Engineering, ESAT-SCD-SISTA Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Kasteelpark Arenberg 10 Leuven (Heverlee) B-3001, Belgium phone: 32 16 32 18 02 fax: 32 16 32 19 70 email: johan.suykens .a_t. esat.kuleuven.be www: www.esat.kuleuven.be/sista/members/suykens.html

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

Marley Vellasco Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio) Rua Marques de Sao Vicente, 225 Rio de Janeiro - RJ, Brazil - 22451-900 phone: +552135271630 fax: +552135271232 email: marley .a_t. ele.puc-rio.br

Jun Wang 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

Donald C. Wunsch II Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering Missouri University of Science & Technology 301 W. 16th St, 131 EECH Rolla MO 65409, USA phone: 573-341-4521 fax: 573-341-4532 email: wunsch .a_t. ieee.org www: www.linkedin.com/in/wunsch

Huaguang Zhang Department of Electrical Engineering Northeastern University Wenhua Road 3-11#, Heping District Shenyang, Liaoning 110819, China phone: +86-24-83687762 fax: +86-24-83689605 email: hgzhang .a_t. ieee.org www: www.eai.neu.edu.cn/zhanghuaguang1.asp

Task Forces

Currect Task Forces:
• Applications, Chair: Zeng-Guang Hou
• Aware Computing, Chair: Robert Kozma
• Education, Chair: Ivo Bukovsky
• Evolvable Neural Networks, Chair: Nikola Kasabov
• Future Directions of Neural Networks, Chair: Irwin King
• Hybrid Intelligent Systems, Chair: Patricia Melin
• Industrial Outreach, Chair: Anya Getman
• Mind and Brain, Chair: Leonid Perlovsky
• Neurodynamics, Chair: Jun Wang
• Neural Hardware, Chair: Giacomo Indiveri
• Recurrent Neural Networks and Recurrent Neurons, Chair: Emilio Del Moral Hernandez