PROF. MARIOS POLYCARPOU
University of Cyprus, Editor-in-Chief IEEE Trans. on Neural Networks
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Marios M. Polycarpou received the B.A. degree in Computer Science and the B.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering both from Rice University, Houston, TX, USA in 1987, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, in 1989 and 1992 respectively. In 1992, he joined the University of Cincinnati, Ohio, USA, where he reached the rank of Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science. In 2001, he was the first faculty to join the newly established Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Cyprus, where he is currently Professor and Dept. Chair. |
Dr. Polycarpou has published more than 165 articles in refereed journals, edited books and refereed conference proceedings, and co-authored the book Adaptive Approximation Based Control, published by Wiley in 2006. He is also the holder of 3 patents.
Prof. Polycarpou is currently the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks. He serves as an Associate Editor of two international journals and past Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks (1998-2003) and of the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control (1999-2002). He served as the Chair of the Technical Committee on Intelligent Control, IEEE Control Systems Society (2003-05) and as Vice President, Conferences, of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (2002-03). He is currently an elected member of the Board of Governors of the IEEE Control Systems Society and an elected AdCom member of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society. Dr. Polycarpou was the recipient of the William H. Middendorf Research Excellence Award at the University of Cincinnati (1997) and was nominated by students for the Professor of the Year award (1996). He has been invited as Keynote Plenary Speaker at several international conferences and served as General Chair of the joint 2005 IEEE International Symposium on Intelligent Control and 2005 Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation. Dr. Polycarpou is a Fellow of the IEEE and his research has been funded by several agencies in the United States, the European Commission and the Research Promotion Foundation of Cyprus. |
DR. PIERO P. BONISSONE
Chief Scientist, Coolidge Fellow, General Electric Global Research
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A Chief Scientist at GE Global Research, Dr. Bonissone has been a pioneer in the field of fuzzy logic, AI, soft computing, and approximate reasoning systems applications since 1979. During the eighties, he conceived and developed the Diesel Electric Locomotive Troubleshooting Aid (DELTA), one of the first fielded expert systems that helped maintenance technicians in troubleshooting diesel-electric locomotives. He has been the Principal Investigator in many DARPA programs, from Strategic Computing Initiative, to Pilot's Associate, Submarine Operational Automation System, and Planning Initiative (ARPI). |
During the nineties, he led many projects in fuzzy control, from the hierarchical fuzzy control of turbo-shaft engines to the use of fuzzy logic in dishwashers, locomotives, and resonant converters for power supplies.He designed and integrated case-based and fuzzy-neural systems to accurately estimate the value of single-family residential properties when used as mortgage collaterals. In early 2000, he designed a fuzzy-rule based classifier, trained by evolutionary algorithms, to automate the placement of insurance applications for long term care and term life, while minimizing the variance of their decisions. This classifier has been in production since 2003. Recently he has led a Soft Computing (SC) group in the development of SC application to diagnostics and prognostics of processes and products, including the prediction of remaining life for each locomotive in a fleet, to perform efficient assets selection. His current interests are the development of multi-criteria decision making systems applied to PHM issues, and the automation of intelligent systems lifecycle, i.e. the development of processes to create, deploy, and maintain smart SC-based systems that provide customized performance while adapting themselves to avoid obsolescence.
He is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), of the International Fuzzy Systems Association (IFSA), and a Coolidge Fellow at GE Global Research. He served as Editor in Chief of the International Journal of Approximate Reasoning for 13 years. He is in the editorial board of five technical journals and is Editor-at-Large of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine. He has co-edited six books and has over 150 publications in refereed journals, book chapters, and conference proceedings. He has received 36 patents issued from the US Patent Office (plus 41 pending patents). Since 1982, he has been an Adjunct Professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, in Troy NY. He has co-chaired nine scientific conferences focused on Multi-Criteria Decision-Making, Fuzzy sets, Diagnostics, Prognostics, and Uncertainty Management. Dr. Bonissone is very active in the IEEE, where is currently a member of the Fellow Evaluation Committee. In the past, while serving as President of the IEEE Neural Networks Society (now Computational Intelligence Society) he was also a member of the IEEE Technical Board Activities (TAB). He has been an Executive Committee member of NNS/CIS society for the past 16 years. |
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