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Fuzzy Set: 1965 … Fuzzy Logic: 1973 …
BISC: 1990 … Human-Machine Perception: 2000 - …
Welcome to the
BISC Program
Curriculum Vitae
Lotfi A. Zadeh joined the Department of
Electrical Engineering at the University
of California, Berkeley,
in 1959, and served as its chairman from 1963 to 1968. Earlier, he was a
member of the electrical engineering faculty at Columbia
University. In 1956, he
was a visiting member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton,
New Jersey. In addition, he held
a number of other visiting appointments, among them a visiting professorship
in Electrical Engineering at MIT in 1962 and 1968; a visiting scientist
appointment at IBM Research Laboratory, San Jose, CA, in 1968, 1973, and
1977; and visiting scholar appointments at the AI Center, SRI International,
in 1981, and at the Center for the Study of Language and Information,
Stanford University, in 1987-1988. Currently he is a Professor in the Graduate
School, and is serving
as the Director of BISC (Berkeley Initiative in Soft Computing).
Until 1965, Dr. Zadeh's work had been
centered on system theory and decision analysis. Since then, his research
interests have shifted to the theory of fuzzy sets and its applications to
artificial intelligence, linguistics, logic, decision analysis, control
theory, expert systems and neural networks. Currently, his research is
focused on fuzzy logic, soft computing, computing with words, and the newly
developed computational theory of perceptions and precisiated natural language.
An alumnus of the University
of Tehran, MIT, and Columbia
University, Dr. Zadeh is
a fellow of the IEEE, AAAS, ACM, AAAI and IFSA, and a member of the National
Academy of Engineering. He held NSF Senior Postdoctoral Fellowships in
1956-57 and 1962-63, and was a Guggenheim Foundation Fellow in 1968. Dr.
Zadeh was the recipient of the IEEE Education Medal in 1973 and a recipient
of the IEEE Centennial Medal in 1984. In 1989, Dr. Zadeh was awarded the
Honda Prize by the Honda Foundation, and in 1991 received the Berkeley
Citation, University
of California.
In 1992, Dr. Zadeh was awarded the IEEE
Richard W. Hamming Medal "For seminal contributions to information
science and systems, including the conceptualization of fuzzy sets." He
became a Foreign Member of the Russian
Academy of Natural
Sciences (Computer Sciences and Cybernetics Section) in 1992, and received
the Certificate of Commendation for AI Special Contributions Award from the
International Foundation for Artificial Intelligence. Also in 1992, he was
awarded the Kampe de Feriet Prize and became an Honorary Member of the
Austrian Society of Cybernetic Studies.
In 1993, Dr. Zadeh received the Rufus
Oldenburger Medal from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers "For
seminal contributions in system theory, decision analysis, and theory of
fuzzy sets and its applications to AI, linguistics, logic, expert systems and
neural networks." He was also awarded the Grigore Moisil Prize for
Fundamental Researches, and the Premier Best Paper Award by the Second
International Conference on Fuzzy Theory and Technology. In 1995, Dr. Zadeh
was awarded the IEEE Medal of Honor "For pioneering development of fuzzy
logic and its many diverse applications." In 1996, Dr. Zadeh was awarded
the Okawa Prize "For outstanding contribution to information science
through the development of fuzzy logic and its applications."
In 1997, Dr. Zadeh was awarded the B.
Bolzano Medal by the Academy of Sciences
of the Czech Republic
"For outstanding achievements in fuzzy mathematics." He also
received the J.P. Wohl Career Achievement Award of the IEEE Systems, Science
and Cybernetics Society. He served as a Lee Kuan Yew Distinguished Visitor,
lecturing at the National University of Singapore and the Nanyang
Technological University
in Singapore, and as the
Gulbenkian Foundation Visiting Professor at the New University of Lisbon in Portugal.
In 1998, Dr. Zadeh was awarded the Edward Feigenbaum Medal by the
International Society for Intelligent Systems, and the Richard E. Bellman Control
Heritage Award by the American Council on Automatic Control. In addition, he
received the Information Science Award from the Association for Intelligent
Machinery and the SOFT Scientific Contribution Memorial Award from the
Society for Fuzzy Theory in Japan.
In 1999, he was elected to membership in Berkeley Fellows and received the
Certificate of Merit from IFSA (International Fuzzy Systems Association). In
2000, he received the IEEE Millennium Medal; the IEEE Pioneer Award in Fuzzy
Systems; the ASPIH 2000 Lifetime Distinguished Achievement Award; and the
ACIDCA 2000 Award for the paper, "From Computing with Numbers to
Computing with Words—From Manipulation of Measurements to Manipulation of
Perceptions." In addition, he received the Chaos Award from the Center
of Hyperincursion and
Anticipation in Ordered Systems for his outstanding scientific work on
foundations of fuzzy logic, soft computing, computing with words and the
computational theory of perceptions. In 2001, Dr. Zadeh received the ACM 2000
Allen Newell Award for seminal contributions to AI through his development of
fuzzy logic. In addition, he received a Special Award from the Committee for
Automation and Robotics of the Polish
Academy of Sciences for
his significant contributions to systems and information science, development
of fuzzy sets theory, fuzzy logic control, possibility theory, soft
computing, computing with words and computational theory of perceptions. In
2003, Dr. Zadeh was elected as a foreign member of the Finnish
Academy of Sciences, and
received the Norbert Wiener Award of the IEEE Society of Systems, Man and
Cybernetics “For pioneering contributions to the development of system
theory, fuzzy logic and soft computing.” In 2004, Dr. Zadeh was awarded
Civitate Honoris Causa by Budapest Tech (BT) Polytechnical Institution, Budapest,
Hungary. Also
in 2004, he was awarded the V. Kaufmann Prize by the International
Association for Fuzzy-Set Management and Economy (SIGEF). In 2005, Dr. Zadeh
was elected as a foreign member of Polish
Academy of Sciences, Korea
Academy of Science & Technology
and Bulgarian Academy
of Sciences. He was also awarded the Nicolaus Copernicus Medal of the Polish
Academy of Sciences and
the J. Keith Brimacombe IPMM Award. In 2006 he was elected as a foreign member
of National Academy of Sciences of Azerbaijan.
Dr. Zadeh is a recipient
of twenty-five honorary doctorates from: Paul-Sabatier University, Toulouse,
France; State University of New York, Binghamton, NY; University of Dortmund,
Dortmund, Germany; University of Oviedo, Oviedo, Spain; University of
Granada, Granada, Spain; Lakehead University, Canada; University of
Louisville, KY; State Oil Academy of Azerbaijan; Baku State University,
Azerbaijan; the Silesian Technical University, Gliwice, Poland; the
University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada; the University of Ostrava, the Czech
Republic; the University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL; the University of
Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany; the University of Paris(6), Paris,
France; Jahannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria; University of
Waterloo, Canada; the University of Aurel Vlaicu, Arad, Romania; Lappeenranta
University of Technology, Lappeenranta, Finland; Muroran Institute of
Technology, Muroran, Japan; Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong, China;
Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India; University of Saskatchewan,
Saskatoon, Canada; the Polytechnic University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain and
Ryerson University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Dr. Zadeh has single-authored over two
hundred papers and serves on the editorial boards of over fifty journals. He
is a member of the Advisory Committee, Center for Education and Research in
Fuzzy Systems and Artificial Intelligence, Iasi,
Romania;
Senior Advisory Board, International Institute for General Systems Studies;
the Board of Governors, International Neural Networks Society; and is the
Honorary President of the Biomedical Fuzzy Systems Association of Japan and
the Spanish Association for Fuzzy Logic and Technologies. In addition, he is
a member of the Advisory Board of the National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo;
a member of the Governing Board, Knowledge Systems Institute, Skokie,
IL; and an honorary member of
the Academic Council of NAISO-IAAC.
Research supported in
part by ONR N00014-02-1-0294, BT Grant CT1080028046, Omron Grant, Tekes Grant
and the BISC Program of UC Berkeley.
Biographical Note
LOTFI A. ZADEH is a Professor in the Graduate
School, Computer Science Division,
Department of EECS, University of California,
Berkeley. In
addition, he is serving as the Director of BISC (Berkeley Initiative in Soft
Computing).
Lotfi Zadeh is an alumnus of the University
of Tehran, MIT and Columbia
University. He held
visiting appointments at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ; MIT,
Cambridge, MA; IBM Research Laboratory, San Jose, CA; AI Center, SRI
International, Menlo Park, CA; and the Center for the Study of Language and
Information, Stanford University. His earlier work was concerned in the main
with systems analysis, decision analysis and information systems. His current
research is focused on fuzzy logic, computing with words and soft computing,
which is a coalition of fuzzy logic, neurocomputing, evolutionary computing,
probabilistic computing and parts of machine learning.
Lotfi Zadeh is a Fellow of the IEEE,
AAAS, ACM, AAAI, and IFSA. He is a member of the National Academy of
Engineering and a Foreign Member of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences,
the Finnish Academy of Sciences, the Polish Academy of Sciences, Korean
Academy of Science & Technology and the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. He
is a recipient of the IEEE Education Medal, the IEEE Richard W. Hamming
Medal, the IEEE Medal of Honor, the ASME Rufus Oldenburger Medal, the B.
Bolzano Medal of the Czech Academy of Sciences, the Kampe de Feriet Medal,
the AACC Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award, the Grigore Moisil Prize,
the Honda Prize, the Okawa Prize, the AIM Information Science Award, the
IEEE-SMC J. P. Wohl Career Achievement Award, the SOFT Scientific
Contribution Memorial Award of the Japan Society for Fuzzy Theory, the IEEE
Millennium Medal, the ACM 2001 Allen Newell Award, the Norbert Wiener Award
of the IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics Society, Civitate Honoris Causa by
Budapest Tech (BT) Polytechnical Institution, Budapest, Hungary, the V.
Kaufmann Prize, International Association for Fuzzy-Set Management and
Economy (SIGEF), the Nicolaus Copernicus Medal of the Polish Academy of
Sciences, the J. Keith Brimacombe IPMM Award, the Silicon Valley Engineering
Hall of Fame, the Heinz Nixdorf MuseumsForum Wall of Fame, other awards and
twenty-six honorary doctorates. He has published extensively on a wide
variety of subjects relating to the conception, design and analysis of
information/intelligent systems, and is serving on the editorial boards of
over sixty journals.
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