IEEE Newsletter

New SMC Fellows for 2014

The IEEE Board of Directors elevated SMC Senior Members to the grade of Fellow. Please join us in congratulating the following colleagues who were evaluated by the SMC Society:

Kathleen Carley
Carnegie Mellon University
Institute for Software Research
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA, 15213, USA
[email protected]

for contributions to multi-dimensional human and cyber dynamic networks

Sam Kwong
City University of Hong Kong
Department of Computer Science
83 Tatchee Avenue
Kowloon, Hong Kong, China
[email protected]

for contributions to optimization techniques in cybernetics and video coding

Zidong Wang
Brunel University
Dept. of Information Systems & Computing
Uxbridge, Middlesex, UB8 3PH, UK
[email protected]

for contributions to networked control and complex networks

In addition, the following new SMC Fellows were evaluated by sister societies

Computer Society:

Gautam Biswas
Vanderbilt University
1025 16th Ave. S.
Nashville, TN, 37212, USA
[email protected]

for contributions to the modeling and simulation, diagnosis, and fault-adaptive control of complex
dynamic systems

Ashok Srivastava
NASA Ames Research Center
2733 Doverton Square
Mountain View, CA, 94040, USA
[email protected]

for leadership and contributions in data mining to enhance the safety of aerospace systems

Computational Intelligence Society:

Hisao Ishibuchi
Osaka Prefecture University
Graduate School of Engineering
1-1 Gakuen-cho, Naka-ku
Sakai, Osaka, 599-8531, Japan
[email protected]

for contributions to evolutionary multiobjective optimization and fuzzy rule-based classifier design

Robert Kozma
University of Memphis
373 Dunn Hall
Memphis, TN, 38152, USA
[email protected]

for contributions to pattern-based computation based on large-scale networks and random graphs

Kay Tan
National University of Singapore
Department of Electrical & Computer Eng.
4 Engineering Drive 3
Singapore, 117576, Singapore
[email protected]

for contributions to evolutionary multiobjective optimization

Kazuo Tanaka
University of Electro-Communications
Dept. of Mechanical Eng. & Intelligent Systems
1-5-1 Chofugaoka
Chofu, Tokyo, 182-8585, Japan
[email protected]

for contributions to fuzzy control system design and analysis

Power and Energy:

Germano Torres
Itajuba Federal University / PS Solutions
Rua Pref. Jose Maria Silveira Campos 577
Itajuba, MG, 37500-200, Brazil
[email protected]

for contributions to the application of intelligent systems to power systems

Robotics and Automation:

Martin Buss
Technische Universitaet Muenchen
LSR, Arcisstrasse 21
Muenchen, 80995, Germany
[email protected]

for contributions to haptic telepresence systems and autonomous robots

Hong Zhang
University of Alberta
221 Athabasca Hall
Department of Computing Science
Edmonton, AL, T6G 2E8, Canada
[email protected]

for contributions to collective robotics and intelligent sensing in oil sand mining

Signal Processing:

Haizhou Li
Institute for Infocom Research
34 Faber Terrace
Singapore, 129027, Singapore
[email protected]

for leadership in multilingual speaker and language recognition

Vehicular Technology:

Yi Murphey
University of Michigan-Dearborn
4901 Evergreen Road
204 ELB, ECE
Dearborn, MI, 48128, USA
[email protected]

for contributions to optimal energy control in hybrid electric vehicles