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Professor Daniel Yeung receives the 2014 Outstanding

Contribution Award

For significant contributions and outstanding service to the

IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society, Daniel Yeung

was awarded the 2014 Outstanding Contribution award concurrently

with Professor Lai.

About Professor Yeung

Daniel S. Yeung (Ph.D., M.Sc., M.B.A., M.S., M.A., B.A.) is a Past President of the IEEE

Systems, Man and Cybernetics (SMC) Society and a Fellow of the IEEE. He received the

Ph.D. degree in applied mathematics from Case Western Reserve University. In the past, he

has worked as an Assistant Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science at Rochester

Institute of Technology, as a Research Scientist in the General Electric Corporate Research

Center, and as a System Integration Engineer at TRW, all in the United States. He was the

chairman of the Department of Computing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong

Kong, and a Chair Professor from 1999 to 2006. Currently he is a visiting Professor in the

School of Computer Science and Engineering, South China University of Technology,

Guangzhou, China.

His current research interests include neural-network sensitivity analysis, data mining, and

fuzzy rough set. He was the Chairman of IEEE Hong Kong Computer Chapter (91and 92), an

associate editor for both IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and IEEE Transactions on

SMC (Part B), and for the International Journal on Wavelet and Multi resolution Processing.

He has served as the President (2008 and 2009), President-Elect (2007), a member of the

Board of Governors, Vice President for Technical Activities, and Vice President for Long

Range Planning and Finance for the IEEE SMC Society. He co-founded and served as a

General Co-Chair since 2002 for the International Conference on Machine Learning and

Cybernetics held annually in China. He also served as a General Co-Chair (Technical

Program) of the 2006 International Conference on Pattern Recognition, and 2012, 2013 and

2015 International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics. He is also the founding

Chairman of the IEEE SMC Hong Kong Chapter.

His past teaching and academic administrative positions include serving as Head of the

Management Information Unit at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Associate

Head/Principal Lecturer at the Department of Computer Science, City Polytechnic of Hong

Kong, a tenured Assistant Professor at the School of Computer Science and Technology and

an Assistant Professor at the Department of Mathematics, both at Rochester Institute of

Technology, Rochester, New York.

He also held industrial and business positions as a Technical Specialist/Application Software

Group Leader at the Computer Consoles, Inc., Rochester, New York, an Information

Resource Sub-manager/Staff Engineer at the Military and Avionics Division, TRW Inc., San

Diego, California, and an Information Scientist of the Information System Operation Lab,

General Electric Corporate Research and Development Centre, Schenectady, New York.