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Fuzzy Set: 1965 … Fuzzy Logic: 1973 …
BISC: 1990 … Human-Machine Perception: 2000 - …
BISC
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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