2009 IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Awards

Posted: 2008-06-14

It gives me great pleasure to announce that the 2009 IEEE Computational Intelligence Society awards are to be bestowed on

John G. Taylor, King's College London, UK for Neural Networks Pioneer Award

Enrique H. Ruspini, SRI International, USA for Fuzzy Systems Pioneer Award

Tomohiro Takagi, Meiji University, JAPAN for Fuzzy Systems Pioneer Award

Vincenzo Piuri, University of Milan, ITALY for Meritorious Services Award

Michael E. Mavroforakis and Sergios Theodoridis, "A geometric approach to support vector machine classification", Vol. 17, No. 3, May 2006, pp. 671-682, for IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks Outstanding Paper Award

Zhiheng Huang and Qiang Shen, "Fuzzy interpolative reasoning via scale and move transformations", Vol. 14, No. 2, April 2006 pp. 340-359, for IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems Outstanding Paper Award

Joshua Knowles, "ParEGO: a hybrid algorithm with on-line landscape approximation for expensive multiobjective optimization", Vol. 10, No. 1, February 2006, pp. 50-66, for IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation Outstanding Paper Award

Queensland Chapter for Outstanding Chapter Award and
Siang Yew Chong, University of Birmingham, UK for Outstanding Ph.D. Dissertation Award

All nominations made were thoroughly discussed within the Award Committees and recommendations were made and approved by the Administrative Committee during its meeting on June 1st, 2008 at the Hong Kong Convention Center. I would like to thank the nominators and awards committees (listed in Awards Committee webpage) for your efforts and devotion to recognize our peers through this awards program.

Gary G. Yen
Chair, Awards Committee