MIR Labs
advisory board comprises of eminent academicians and researchers
from the industry. The research profiles of the key advisory
board members are displayed below.
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Mihaela Ulieru,
Canada
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Ronald Yager, USA
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Witold
Pedrycz, Canada
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Imre Rudas, Hungary
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Dharma
Agrawal, USA
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Mohamed
Kamel, Canada
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Francisco Herrera, Spain
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Janusz
Kacprzyk, Poland
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Sankar Pal,
India
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Albert
Zomaya, Australia
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Hsinchun Chen,
USA
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Shunichi
Amari, Japan
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Sargur Srihari, USA
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Diane Cook, USA
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Mihaela
Ulieru
Canada
MIR Labs - Advisory Board Member |
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Professor
Mihaela Ulieru
holds the NSERC (Natural Science and
Engineering Research Council – funded)
Canada Research
Chair in Adaptive Information
Infrastructures for the eSociety
in the Faculty of Computer Science at
the
University of New
Brunswick
in
Fredericton
since 2005 when she also established
(with Canada Foundation for Innovation
funding) and leads the Adaptive Risk
Management Laboratory (ARM Lab)
researching
Complex Networks
as Control Paradigm for Complex Systems
to develop
Holistic Security
Ecosystems.
Her
current research
is focused on the
Cyberengineering
of resilient eNetworks
(Cyber-Physical Ecosystems) and their
applications
to security (critical infrastructure
protection, emergency response
management), e-Health (pandemic
mitigation) and networked manufacturing.
One highlight of her most recent
endeavors is a
collaborative
project
on 'Emulating
the Mind'.
Professor Ulieru is an expert in
distributed
intelligent systems,
topic on which she is a frequent
Keynote and
Tutorial
speaker as well as
distinguished
visiting professor internationally (Technical
University of Vienna,
Austria;
Institut des
Systčmes Complexes de Paris,
France;
Carnegie Mellon
University,
Pittsburgh,
Stevens Institute
of Technology,
NYC, USA; University of Duisburg-Essen,
Germany; Curtin University of
Technology, Perth,
Melbourne
University,
RMIT and University of New South Wales,
Australia),
McGill University.
She has appointments on several national
and international advisory boards and
review panels among which the
Singapore A*STAR
Advisory Board,
the Scientific Council of the
EU NCE I*PROMS,
expert on the
EU Framework
Programme
, the
NSERC
International Strategy Advisory Panel
and Strategic Projects Review Panels on
Safety and Security and ICT as well as
NSF Cyber-Systems Review Panel.
Professor Ulieru is member of the
Government of Canada Science Technology
and Innovation Council.
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Ronald Yager,
Fellow IEEE
USA
MIR Labs - Advisory Board Member |
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Ronald R. Yager
has worked in
the area of
machine
intelligence for
over twenty-five
years. He has
published over
500 papers and
fifteen books.
He was the
recipient of the
IEEE
Computational
Intelligence
Society Pioneer
award in Fuzzy
Systems. Dr.
Yager is a
fellow of the
IEEE, the New
York Academy of
Sciences and the
Fuzzy Systems
Association. He
was given a
lifetime
achievement
award by the
Polish Academy
of Sciences for
his
contributions.
He served at the
National Science
Foundation as
program director
in the
Information
Sciences
program. He was
a NASA/Stanford
visiting fellow
and a research
associate at the
University of
California,
Berkeley. He has
been a lecturer
at NATO Advanced
Study
Institutes. He
has been a
distinguished
honorary
professor at the
Aalborg
University
Esbjerg Denmark.
He is an
affiliated
distinguished
researcher at
the European
Centre for Soft
Computing. He
received his
undergraduate
degree from the
City College of
New York and his
Ph. D. from the
Polytechnic
University of
New York.
Currently, he is
Director of the
Machine
Intelligence
Institute and
Professor of
Information
Systems at Iona
College. He is
editor and chief
of the
International
Journal of
Intelligent
Systems. He
serves on the
editorial board
of numerous
technology
journals
including the
IEEE
Transactions on
Fuzzy Systems,
Neural Networks,
Data Mining and
Knowledge
Discovery, IEEE
Intelligent
Systems, Fuzzy
Sets and
Systems, the
Journal of
Approximate
Reasoning and
the Journal of
Group Decision
Making and
Negotiations. He
has made
fundamental
contributions in
decision making
under
uncertainty and
the fusion of
information.
Much of his work
has been
transitioned
into commercial
applications.
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Witold Pedrycz,
Fellow
IEEE
Canada
MIR Labs - Advisory Board Member |
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Witold Pedrycz
received the M.Sc., and Ph.D.,
D.Sci. all from the Silesian University of Technology,
Gliwice, Poland. He is a Professor and Canada Research
Chair (CRC) in Computational Intelligence in the
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada. He is also with
the Polish Academy of Sciences, Systems Research
Institute, Warsaw, Poland.
His research interests encompass Computational
Intelligence, fuzzy modeling, knowledge discovery and
data mining, fuzzy control including fuzzy controllers,
pattern recognition, knowledge-based neural networks,
granular and relational computing, and Software
Engineering. He has published numerous papers in these
areas. He is also an author of 12 research monographs.
Witold Pedrycz has been a member of numerous program
committees of IEEE conferences in the area of fuzzy sets
and neurocomputing. He serves as Editor-in-Chief of IEEE
Transactions on Systems Man and Cybernetics-part A and
Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems.
He is also an Editor-in-Chief of Information Sciences.
Dr. Pedrycz is a recipient of the prestigious Norbert
Wiener award from the IEEE Society of Systems, Man, and
Cybernetics and an IEEE Canada Silver Medal in Computer
Engineering.
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Imre
Rudas,
Fellow
IEEE
Hungary
MIR Labs - Advisory Board Member |
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Imre J. Rudas graduated from Bánki Donát
Polytechnic, Budapest in 1971, received the Master
Degree in Mathematics from the Eötvös Loránd University,
Budapest, the Ph.D. in Robotics from the Hungarian
Academy of Sciences in 1987, while the Doctor of Science
degree from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He
received his first Doctor Honoris Causa degree from the
Technical University of Kosice, Slovakia and his second
Honorary Doctorate from University Polytechnica
Timisoara, Romania.
He is active as a full university professor and Head of
Department of Intelligent Engineering Systems. He serves
as the Rector of Budapest Tech from August 1, 2003 for a
period of four years.
He is a Fellow of IEEE, Senior Administrative
Committee member of IEEE Industrial Electronics Society,
member of Board of Governors of IEEE SMC Society,
Chairman of the Hungarian Chapters of IEEE Computational
Intelligence and IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics
Societies.
He is the President of the Hungarian Fuzzy Association
and Steering Committee Member of the Hungarian Robotics
Association and the John von Neumann Computer Society.
He serves as an associate editor of some scientific
journals, including IEEE Transactions on Industrial
Electronics, member of editorial board of Journal
of Advanced Computational Intelligence, member of
various national and international scientific
committees. He is the founder of the IEEE International
Conference Series on Intelligent Engineering Systems and
IEEE International Conference on Computational
Cybernetics, and some regional symposia. He has served
as General Chairman and Program Chairman of numerous
scientific international conferences.
His present areas of research activity are:
Computational Cybernetics, Robotics with special
emphasis on Robot Control, Soft Computing, Computed
Aided Process Planning, Fuzzy Control and Fuzzy Sets. He
has published one book, more than 400 papers in books,
various scientific journals and international conference
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Dharma Agrawal,
Fellow - IEEE, ACM, AAAS, WIF
USA
MIR Labs - Advisory Board Member |
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Dr. Agrawal is serving
as the Professor
of Computer Science in
the department of
Computer Science,
University of
Cincinnati, OH.
He
was a Visiting Professor
of
Electrical and Computer
Engineering
department at
Carnegie Mellon
University,
on sabbatical leave
during Autumn 2006 and
Winter 2007 quarters.
He has been a faculty
member at
Wayne State University,
(1977-1982) and
North Carolina State
University,
(1982-1998). He has been
a consultant to the
General Dynamics Land
Systems Division,
Battelle,
Inc., and the U.S. Army.
He has held visiting
appointments at AIRMICS,
Atlanta, GA, and the
AT&T Advanced
Communications
Laboratory,
Whippany, NJ. He has
published a number of
papers in the areas of
Parallel System
Architecture,
Multicomputer Networks,
Routing Techniques,
Parallelism Detection
and Scheduling
Techniques, Reliability
of Real-Time Distributed
Systems, Modeling of
C-MOS Circuits, and
Computer Arithmetic. His
recent research
interests include
resource allocation and
security in mesh
networks, efficient
query processing and
security in sensor
networks, and
heterogeneous wireless
networks. He has five
approved patents and
eighteen patent filings
in the area of wireless
cellular networks.
In
1994, as the Chair of
the Technical Committee
on Computer
Architecture, IEEE
Computer Society, he
started a new symposium
on High Performance
Computer Architecture
and has become most
important meeting for
the research community.
Recently, he took an
initiative in starting a
new meeting in Mobile Ad
hoc and Sensor Systems
area,
MASS-2004.
The
second,
third
and
fourth
meetings were held in
Washington DC, Vancouver
(Canada) and Pisa
(Italy) respectively.
His recent contribution
in the form of a
co-authored introductory
text book on Wireless
and Mobile Computing
has been widely accepted
throughout the world and
a second edition has
just been published.
This book has been
translated in to Korean
language and has been
reprinted both in China
and India. His new
co-authored book on
Ad hoc and Sensor
Networks was
published in spring of
2006. He has also been
named as an
ISI Highly Cited
Researcher
in Computer Science.
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Mohamed
Kamel,
Fellow
- IEEE, IAPR,
EIC, CAE
Canada
MIR Labs -
Advisory Board
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Mohamed
Kamel received the B.Sc. (Hons) EE (Alexandria University), M.A.Sc
(McMaster University), Ph.D (University of Toronto). He joined the
University of Waterloo, Canada in 1985 where he is at present Professor
and Director of the Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
Laboratory at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and
holds a University Research Chair. Professor Kamel held Canada Research
Chair in Cooperative Intelligent Systems from 2001 to 2008.
Dr. Kamel's research
interests are in Computational Intelligence, Pattern Recognition,
Machine Learning and Cooperative Intelligent Systems. He has authored
and co-authored over 390 papers in journals and conference proceedings,
11 edited volumes, 2 patents and numerous technical and industrial
project reports. Under his supervision, 81 Ph.D and M.A.SC students
have completed their degrees.
He is the
Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Robotics and
Automation, Associate Editor of the IEEE SMC, Part A, Pattern
Recognition Letters, Cognitive Neurodynamics journal and Pattern
Recognition J. He is also member of the editorial advisory board of the
International Journal of Image and Graphics and the Intelligent
Automation and Soft Computing journal. He also served as Associate
Editor of Simulation, the Journal of The Society for Computer
Simulation.
Based on his work at
the NCR, he received the NCR Inventor Award. He is also a recipient of
the Systems Research Foundation Award for outstanding presentation in
1985 and the ISRAM best paper award in 1992. In 1994 he has been
awarded the IEEE Computer Society Press outstanding referee award. He
was also a coauthor of the best paper in the 2000 IEEE Canadian
Conference on electrical and Computer Engineering. Dr. Kamel is
recipient of the University of Waterloo outstanding performance award
twice, the faculty of engineering distinguished performance award.
Dr. Kamel is member of
ACM, PEO, Fellow of IEEE, Fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada
(EIC), Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering (CAE) and selected
to be a Fellow of the International Association of Pattern Recognition
(IAPR) in 2008. He served as consultant for General Motors, NCR, IBM,
Northern Telecom and Spar Aerospace. He is co-founder of Virtek Vision
Inc. of Waterloo and chair of its Technology Advisory Group. He served
as member of the board from 1992-2008 and VP research and development
from 1987 to 1992.
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Francisco
Herrera
Spain
MIR Labs - Advisory Board Member |
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Francisco Herrera received the M.Sc. degree in
Mathematics in 1988 and the Ph.D. degree in
Mathematics in 1991, both from the University of
Granada, Spain.
He is currently a Professor in the Department of
Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence at
the University of Granada. He is the director of
the research group “Soft Computing and
Information Intelligent Systems” (http://sci2s.ugr.es).
His current research interests include computing with
words and decision making, data mining, data
preparation, subgroup discovery, fuzzy rule
based systems, genetic fuzzy systems, knowledge
extraction based on evolutionary algorithms,
memetic algorithms and genetic algorithms. He
has published numerous papers in these areas. He
is coauthor of the book “Genetic Fuzzy Systems:
Evolutionary Tuning and Learning of Fuzzy
Knowledge Bases" (World Scientific, 2001).
As edited activities, he has co-edited four international
books and co-edited several special issues in
international journals on different Soft
Computing topics. He acts as associated editor
of the Journals: IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy
Systems, Mathware and Soft Computing, Advances
in Fuzzy Systems, and Advances in Computational
Sciences and Technology. He currently serves as
area editor of the Journal Soft Computing (area
of genetic algorithms and genetic fuzzy
systems), and he serves as member of the
editorial board of the journals: Fuzzy Sets and
Systems, Applied Intelligence, Knowledge and
Information Systems, Information Fusion,
Evolutionary Intelligence, International Journal
of Hybrid Intelligent Systems, Memetic
Computation, International Journal of
Computational Intelligence Research,
International Journal of Information Technology
and Intelligent and Computing, The Open
Cybernetics and Systemics Journal, Recent
Patents on Computer Science, and Journal of
Advanced Research in Fuzzy and Uncertain
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Janusz Kacprzyk,
Fellow -
IEEE, IFSA
Poland
MIR Labs - Advisory Board member |
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Janusz Kacprzyk,
MS in CS and automatic control, Ph.D. in systems
analysis, D.Sc. in CS, Professor since 1997,
Member of the Polish Academy of Sciences since
2002. Since 1970 with the Systems Research
Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences, currently
as professor and Deputy Director for Research.
Visiting professor at University of North
Carolina, University of Tennessee, Iona College,
University of Trento, and Nottingham Trent
University. Research interests: soft computing,
fuzzy logic and computing with words, in
decisions and optimization, control, database
querying, information retrieval. 1991 – 1995:
IFSA Vice-President, 1995 – 1999: in IFSA
Council, 2001- 2005: IFSA Treasurer, 2005: IFSA
President-Elect, IFSA Fellow, IEEE Fellow.
Recipient of numerous awards, notably 2005
IEEE/CIS Pioneer Award for seminal works on
multistage fuzzy control, notably fuzzy dynamic
programming. Editor of three Springer's book
series: “Studies in Fuzziness and Soft
Computing,” “Advances in Soft Computing,”
“Studies in Computational Intelligence,” on
editorial boards of 20 journals. Author of 5
books, (co)editor of 30 volumes, (co)author of
300 papers. Member of IPC at 150 conferences.
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Sankar Pal
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Fellow - IEEE, IAPR, IFSA, FTWAS, FNA
India
MIR Labs - Advisory Board member |
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Sankar K.
Pal is the Director and a Distinguished
Scientist of the Indian Statistical
Institute. Currently, he is also a J.C.
Bose National Fellow of the Government
of India. He founded the Machine
Intelligence Unit and the Center for
Soft Computing Research: A National
Facility in the Institute in Calcutta.
He received a Ph.D. in Radio Physics and
Electronics from the University of
Calcutta in 1979, and another Ph.D. in
Electrical Engineering along with DIC
from Imperial College, University of
London in 1982.
He worked at the University of California,
Berkeley and the University of Maryland,
College Park in 1986-87; the NASA
Johnson Space Center, Houston, Texas in
1990-92 & 1994; and in US Naval Research
Laboratory, Washington DC in 2004. Since
1997 he has been serving as a
Distinguished Visitor of IEEE Computer
Society (USA) for the Asia-Pacific
Region, and held several visiting
positions in Hong Kong and Australian
Universities.
Prof. Pal is a Fellow of the IEEE, USA, The Academy of
Sciences for the Developing World,
Italy, International Association for
Pattern Recognition, USA, International
Fuzzy Systems Association, USA, and all
the four National Academies for
Science/Engineering in India. He is a
co-author of fourteen books and more
than three hundred research publications
in the areas of Pattern Recognition and
Machine Learning, Image Processing, Data
Mining and Web Intelligence, Soft
Computing, Neural Nets, Genetic
Algorithms, Fuzzy Sets, Rough Sets and
Bioinformatics.
He has received the 1990 S.S. Bhatnagar Prize (which is
the most coveted award for a scientist
in India), and many prestigious awards
in India and abroad including the 1999
G.D. Birla Award, 1998 Om Bhasin Award,
1993 Jawaharlal Nehru Fellowship, 2000
Khwarizmi International Award from the
Islamic Republic of Iran, 2000-2001
FICCI Award, 1993 Vikram Sarabhai
Research Award, 1993 NASA Tech Brief
Award (USA), 1994 IEEE Trans. Neural
Networks Outstanding Paper Award (USA),
1995 NASA Patent Application Award
(USA), 1997 IETE-R.L. Wadhwa Gold Medal,
the 2001 INSA-S.H. Zaheer Medal, 2005-06
P.C. Mahalanobis Birth Centenary Award
(Gold Medal) from Indian Science
Congress for Lifetime Achievement, J. C.
Bose Fellowship of the Government of
India, 2007, and Vigyan Ratna Award from
Science and Culture Organization, West
Bengal, 2008.
Prof. Pal is an Associate Editor of IEEE Trans.
Pattern Analysis and Machine
Intelligence (2002-2006), IEEE Trans.
Neural Networks (1994-1998, 2003-2006),
Pattern Recognition Letters,
Neurocomputing (1995-2005), Applied
Intelligence, Information Sciences,
Fuzzy Sets and Systems, Fundamenta
Informaticae, Int. J. Computational
Intelligence and Applications, LNCS
Trans. on Rough Sets, IE Image
Processing, and Proc. INSA-A; a Member,
Executive Advisory Editorial Board, IEEE
Trans. Fuzzy Systems, Int. Journal on
Image and Graphics, and Int. Journal of
Approximate Reasoning; and a Guest
Editor of IEEE Computer.
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Albert
Zomaya,
Fellow - IEEE, AAAS, IET
Australia
MIR Labs - Advisory Board member |
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Albert Y.
Zomaya is
currently the
Chair Professor of
High Performance
Computing &
Networking
in the School of
Information
Technologies, The
University of
Sydney. He held the
CISCO Systems Chair
Professor of
Internetworking
during the period
2002–‘07 in the same
school and also
served as head of
school during the
period 2006–’07. He
also served as
Deputy–Director
(Information
Technology) for the
Sydney University
Biological
Informatics and
Technology Centre
(SUBIT)
during 2003–‘06.
Currently, serves on
the board of
Sydney
Bioinformatics
which was founded in
2007.
Prior to taking up
the current position
he was a Full
Professor at the
Department of
Electrical and
Electronic
Engineering,
The University of
Western Australia
where he spent the
period spanning
1990–2001. During
his time at UWA he
headed the Parallel
Computing Research
Laboratory, and also
spent sometime as
Associate-, Deputy-,
and Acting Head of
Department.
Professor
Zomaya
received his PhD
from the
Department of
Automatic Control
and Systems
Engineering,
Sheffield University
in the United
Kingdom. He held
visiting positions
in the Department of
Computer Science,
Waterloo University
and the Department
of Computer Science,
University of
Missouri-Rolla. He
also an Adjunct
Professor in the
Department of
Electrical and
Electronic
Engineering,
The University of
Western Australia.
Professor
Zomaya has to
his credit 19 book
titles and more than
300 publications in
technical journals,
collaborative books,
and conferences. He
is a Chair of the
Advisory Board of
the
Journal of Pervasive
Computing and
Communications,
Founding Editorial
Board Member of the
International
Journal of High
Performance
Computing and
Networking,
and member of the
advisory board of
International
Journal of Wireless
and Mobile Computing.
He is also the
Founding
Editor-in-Chief of
the
Wiley Book Series on
Parallel and
Distributed
Computing,
Series Co-Editor
(with Yi Pan) of the
Wiley Book Series on
Bioinformatics,
and the Series
Co-Editor (with Mary
Eshaghian-Wilner)
of the
Wiley Book Series on
Nature Inspired
Computing.
Professor
Zomaya is an
associate editor for
the
IEEE Transactions on
Computers,
Journal of Parallel
and Distributed
Computing,
Journal of
Algorithms and
Computational
Technology,
Journal of
Ubiquitous Computing
and Intelligence,
International
Journal of Parallel,
Emergent and
Distributed Systems,
Mobile Information
Systems,
International
Journal of
Bioinformatics
Research and
Applications,
International
Journal of
Distributed Sensor
Networks,
International
Journal of Grid and
Utility Computing,
International
Journal of Computers
and Applications,
Future Generation
Computer Systems
Journal,
Journal of
Interconnection
Networks,
and
International
Journal of
Foundations of
Computer Science.
He also served in
the past (for two
terms) on the
editorial boards of
the
IEEE Transactions on
Parallel and
Distributed Systems
and the
IEEE Transactions on
Systems, Man, and
Cybernetics.
Professor
Zomaya is the
editor-in-Chief of
the
Parallel and
Distributed
Computing Handbook
(McGraw-Hill, 1996)
and serves on the
executive board of
the
IEEE Technical
Committee on
Scalable Computing
and the
IEEE Technical
Committee on
Parallel Processing.
He also serves as
Scientific Council
Member
of the
Institute for
Computer Sciences,
Social–Informatics,
and
Telecommunications
Engineering
(Brussels)
and member of the
board of the
IEEE Technical
Committee on
Self–Organization
and Cybernetics for
Informatics.
He also served as
the Chair for
IEEE Technical
Committee on
Parallel Processing
from June 1999 to
July 2003.
He was awarded the
1997
Edgeworth David
Medal
by the
Royal Society of New
South Wales
for outstanding
contributions to
Australian Science.
In September 2000 he
was awarded the
IEEE Computer
Society's
Meritorious Service
Award
and in 2006 was made
a member of the
Golden Core
(also of the
IEEE Computer
Society's).
Professor
Zomaya's
research interests
are in the areas of
algorithms, parallel
and distributed
computing,
computational
machine learning,
biological and
adaptive computing
systems, networking,
mobile computing and
wireless networks,
cluster and grid
computing, data
mining, scientific
computing,
bioinformatics, and
systems
biology.
He is the founding
co-chair of the
Workshop on
Bio-Inspired
Solutions to
Parallel Pr ocessing
Problems (BioSP3)
(Now known as
the
International
Workshop on Nature
Inspired Distributed
Computing).
He served in
different capacities
on the programs of
more than 300
national and
international
conferences. He is a
Chartered Engineer
(CEng), a Fellow of
the
American Association
for the Advancement
of Science,
the
IEEE,
the
Institution of
Engineering and
Technology
(previously known as
the Institution of
Electrical
Engineers), and a
Distinguished
Engineer of the
ACM. |
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Hsinchun Chen,
Fellow - IEEE, AAAS
USA
MIR Labs - Advisory Board member |
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Dr. Hsinchun Chen is
McClelland Professor
of Management
Information Systems
at the University of
Arizona. He received
the B.S. degree from
the National Chiao-Tung
University in
Taiwan, the MBA
degree from SUNY
Buffalo, and the
Ph.D. degree in
Information Systems
from the New York
University. Dr. Chen
had served as a
Scientific
Counselor/Advisor of
the National Library
of Medicine (USA),
Academia Sinica
(Taiwan), and
National Library of
China (China). Dr.
Chen is a Fellow of
IEEE and AAAS. He
received the IEEE
Computer Society
2006 Technical
Achievement Award.
He is author/editor
of 20 books, 25 book
chapters, 180 SCI
journal articles,
and 120 refereed
conference articles
covering Web
computing, search
engines, digital
library,
intelligence
analysis, biomedical
informatics,
data/text/web
mining, and
knowledge
management. His
recent books
include: Mapping
Nanotechnology
Knowledge and
Innovation (2008),
Digital Government:
E-Government
Research, Case
Studies, and
Implementation
(2007); Intelligence
and Security
Informatics for
International
Security:
Information Sharing
and Data Mining
(2006); and Medical
Informatics:
Knowledge Management
and Data Mining in
Biomedicine (2005),
all published by
Springer. Dr. Chen
was ranked #8 in
publication
productivity in
Information Systems
(CAIS 2005) and #1
in Digital Library
research (IP&M 2005)
in two bibliometric
studies.
He serves on ten
editorial boards
including: ACM
Transactions on
Information Systems,
IEEE Transactions on
Systems, Man, and
Cybernetics, Journal
of the American
Society for
Information Science
and Technology,
Decision Support
Systems, and
International
Journal on Digital
Library. He has been
an advisor for major
NSF, DOJ, NLM, DOD,
DHS, and other
international
research programs in
digital library,
digital government,
medical informatics,
and national
security research.
Dr. Chen is founding
director of
Artificial
Intelligence Lab and
Hoffman E-Commerce
Lab. The UA
Artificial
Intelligence Lab,
which houses 30+
researchers, has
received more than
$25M in research
funding from
NSF, NIH, NLM, DOD,
DOJ, CIA, DHS, and
other agencies. The
Hoffman E-Commerce
Lab, which has been
funded mostly by
major IT industry
partners, features
one of the most
advanced e-commerce
hardware and
software
environments in the
College of
Management. Dr. Chen
is conference
co-chair of ACM/IEEE
Joint Conference on
Digital Libraries (JCDL)
2004 and has served
as the
conference/program
co-chair for the
past eight
International
Conferences of Asian
Digital Libraries (ICADL),
the premiere digital
library meeting in
Asia that he helped
develop.
Dr. Chen is also
(founding)
conference co-chair
of the IEEE
International
Conferences on
Intelligence
and Security
Informatics (ISI)
2003-2009. The ISI
conference, which
has been sponsored
by NSF, CIA, DHS,
and NIJ, has become
the premiere meeting
for international
and homeland
security IT
research. Dr. Chen's
COPLINK system,
which has been
quoted as a national
model for public
safety information
sharing and
analysis, has been
adopted in more than
1600 law enforcement
and intelligence
agencies. The
COPLINK research had
been featured in the
New York Times,
Newsweek, Los
Angeles Times,
Washington Post,
Boston Globe, and
ABC News, among
others. The COPLINK
project was selected
as a finalist by the
prestigious
International
Association of
Chiefs of Police
(IACP)/Motorola 2003
Weaver Seavey Award
for Quality in Law
Enforcement in 2003.
COPLINK research has
recently been
expanded to border
protection (BorderSafe),
disease and bioagent
surveillance (BioPortal),
and terrorism
informatics research
(Dark Web), funded
by NSF, CIA, and
DHS. In
collaboration with
selected
international
terrorism research
centers and
intelligence
agencies, the Dark
Web project has
generated one of the
largest databases in
the world about
extremist/terrorist-generated
Internet contents
(web sites, forums,
blogs, and
multimedia
documents). Dark Web
research supports
link analysis,
content analysis,
web metrics
analysis, multimedia
analysis, sentiment
analysis, and
authorship analysis
of international
terrorism contents.
The project has
received significant
international press
coverage, including:
Associated Press,
USA Today, NSF
Press, Washington
Post, Fox News, BBC,
PBS, Business Week,
Discover magazine,
WIRED magazine,
Government Computing
Week, Second German
TV (ZDF), Toronto
Star, and Arizona
Daily Star, among
others.
Dr. Chen is the
founder of the
Knowledge Computing
Corporation, a
university spin-off
company and a market
leader in law
enforcement and
intelligence
information sharing
and data mining. He
has
also received
numerous awards in
information
technology and
knowledge management
education and
research including:
AT&T Foundation
Award, SAP Award,
the Andersen
Consulting Professor
of the Year Award,
the University of
Arizona Technology
Innovation Award,
and the National
Chiao-Tung
University
Distinguished
Alumnus Award. Dr.
Chen had served as a
keynote speaker in
major international
security
informatics, medical
informatics,
information systems,
knowledge
management, and
digital library
conferences. He is a
Distinguished/Honorary
Professor of several
major universities
in Taiwan and China.
Dr. Chen serves as
the Program co-Chair
of the International
Conference on
Information Systems
(ICIS) 2009, to be
held in Phoenix,
Arizona.
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Shun-ichi Amari,
Fellow - IEEE,
IEICE
Japan
MIR Labs - Advisory Board member |
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Shun-ichi Amari,
born in 1936 in
Tokyo, is graduated
from the Graduate
School of the
University of Tokyo
in 1963, majoring in
mathematical
engineering.
Associate professor
at Kyusyu
University,
associate and full
professor at the
University of Tokyo,
and now
Professor-Emeritus
at the University of
Tokyo. He is the
director of RIKEN
Brain Science
Institute. He served
as the President of
International Neural
Network Society,
Institute of
Electronics ,
Information and
Communication
Engineers, a member
of the Japanese
Scientist Council, a
founding
Coeditor-in-Chief of
Neural Networks and
many others. He is a
Fellow of IEEE and
IEICE, winner of
IEEE Emanuel A.
Piore Award, IEEE
Neural Networks
Pioneer Award, Japan
Academy Award, and
C&C Award among many
others.
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Sargur Srihari,
Fellow - IEEE
USA
MIR Labs - Advisory Board member |
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Srihari is a
computer scientist
who has made
scientific
contributions to the
areas of pattern
recognition, machine
learning, and
computational
forensics.
He is
presently a
SUNY Distinguished
Professor
in the Department of
Computer Science and
Engineering at the
University at
Buffalo, The State
University of New
York.
Srihari is the
founding director of
the Center of
Excellence for
Document Analysis
and Recognition
(CEDAR) at the
University at
Buffalo. Work at the
center led to the
first automated
systems for reading
handwritten postal
addresses which were
deployed in the
United States,
Australia and the
United Kingdom.
Srihari is an author
of over three
hundred papers,
three books and
seven United States
patents.
He has supervised
forty doctoral
dissertations. He
has been a visiting
faculty member at
several institutions
worldwide in India,
Italy, Saudi Arabia
and Malaysia.
He served on the
Board of Scientific
Counselors of the
National Library of
Medicine
for six years
(2001-2007) and the
National Academy of
Sciences
Committee on
Identifying the
Needs of the
Forensic Science
Community
(2006-2009).
Srihari's honors
include: Fellow of
the Institute of
Electronics and
Telecommunications
Engineers (IETE,
India) in 1992,
Fellow of the
Institute of
Electrical and
Electronics
Engineers (IEEE)
in 1995, Fellow of
the
International
Association for
Pattern Recognition
in 1996 and
distinguished
alumnus of the
Ohio State
University College
of Engineering
in 1999.
Srihari received a
B.Sc. in Physics and
Mathematics from the
Bangalore University
(National College)
in 1967, a B.E. in
Electrical
Communication
Engineering from the
Indian Institute of
Science, Bangalore
in 1970, and a Ph.D.
in
Computer and
Information Science
from the Ohio State
University, Columbus
in 1976.
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Diane
Cook,
Fellow - IEEE
USA
MIR Labs - Advisory Board member |
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Diane Cook is a
Huie-Rogers Chair
Professor in the
School of Electrical
Engineering and
Computer Science at
Washington State
University. Dr. Cook
received her B.S.
from Wheaton College
in 1985, and her
M.S. and Ph.D. from
the University of
Illinois in 1987 and
1990, respectively.
Diane's research
interests include
artificial
intelligence,
machine learning,
data mining,
robotics, smart
environments, and
parallel algorithms
for artificial
intelligence. She is
one of the directors
of the AI
Laboratory, and
serves as
editor-in-chief of
the IEEE
Transactions on
Systems, Man, and
Cybernetics, Part B:
Cybernetics.
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