Prof. Lotfi A. Zadeh
BISC
Director
Prof. Zadeh is a Professor in the GraduateSchool, 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). 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. 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 RussianAcademy
of Natural 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 Central Heritage Award, the Grigore
Moisil Prize, the Honda Prize, the Okawa Prize, the AIM Information Science
Award, the IEEE-SMC J. P. Wohl Career Acheivement Award, the SOFT Scientific
Contribution Memorial Award of the Japan Society for Fuzzy Theory, the IEEE
Millennium Medal, the ACM 2000 Allen Newell Award, and other awards and
honorary doctorates.
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Nikravesh’s Short Bio
Executive
Director and Program Manager
Dr. Masoud Nikravesh is the
Executive Director of BISC (Berkeley Initiative in Soft Computing), the Computer
Science Division at the University of California, Berkeley. BISC is a
world-leading center for basic and applied research in soft computing,
computing with words (CW), computational theory of perception (CTP), and
precisiated natural language (PNL).
Dr. Nikravesh’s main
focus, since 1994, is on development of computational intelligence
methodology and development of
integrated methodology based on soft computing techniques (evolutionary
computing including GA and DNA coding, neural network, fuzzy logic, and
probabilistic reasoning) for 1) data fusion-mining & knowledge
management- discovery, computational theory of perception, decision support
systems & information systems in enterprise, and 2) analysis of large scale and complex data including earth
sciences & energy recourses, internet-search engine, bioinformatics,
telecommunication-customer related issues, healthcare & digital home, and homeland security &
defense. Dr. Nikravesh has published six books and over 150 papers and
presentations on a wide range of topics in artificial intelligence and soft
computing and their application.
Dr. Nikravesh is a leading expert in soft computing and is a board
member and/or reviewer for many private and public centers of IT excellence.
Dr. Nikravesh received his Executive Certificate Degree in
BioEntrepreneurship from Haas School
of Business-UC Berkeley (2004). As first ranked student and supported
through scholarship and fellowship throughout his education, he received his
B.Sc from Abadan Institute of Technology-IRAN, MS (August 1993) and his PhD
(in one year in with perfect 4.00GPA, Dec.1994) in Chemical Engineering from
the University of South Carolina . His paper Hybrid Neural Network Dynamic
Matrix Control (HNNDMC) that has been the basis for his PhD thesis (Dynamic
Neural Network Control- DNNC) won second place in 1993 AICHE annual meeting
student paper competition. He received full scholarship from University of California, Berkeley for
his second Ph.D. in Material Sciences and Mineral Engineering Department,
Fall 1994. While he was student
at UCB during 1994, he decided to start his scientific carrier as Postdoc
researcher in Spring 1995 at University
of California-Berkeley and Lawrence
Berkeley National Lab as joint appointment. He was the technology developer for a $750K project funded by
DOE based on
his PhD. thesis, a project ranked by DOE as Highest Ranked ACTI
Project-1997. Prior to rejoining UCB in 2000, he was the senior
research scientist with EGI at University
of Utah from 1998-2000, where he was the technology
developer for a $6.2 MM project funded by DOE and $1.5MM project funded by
GRI. He is the recipient of the AAPG President’s Certificate of Excellence in
presentation, AAPG Annual meeting, 1999. From 1980-1993, he worked for National Iranian Oil Company
(NIOC) as lecturer, senior engineer, R&D, and executive assistance to the
head of NIOC research Center. He has been in technical and strategic meetings
with senior government officials, including the minister of petroleum and his
deputies, and some of the member of the President, routinely, where he managed one of the most strategic NIOC
project during 1985-1990 (Iran-Japan Petrochemical Feedstock project). Dr. Nikravesh is the BISC
Executive Director, BTExact technology
Senior Fellow and BISC Program
Manager in the Computer Science
Division, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at
the University of California, Berkeley and Research Scientist
in the Imaging and Informatics Group
at NERSC (National Energy Research
Scientific Computing Division, Lawrence
Berkeley National Laboratory. In addition, he served as the Associate
Director (Co-founder) of Zadeh Institute for Information Technology
(Information Technology) and Chairs of BISC-Earth Sciences, BISC-Fuzzy Logic
and Internet, and BISC-Recognition Technology Groups. He funded and directed so many
projects at BISC program, including projects by BTExact technology, OMRON,
Honeywell, Chevron-Texaco, ONR, DOE, Tekes, etc. Dr. Nikravesh is the LBNL-NERSC
(National Energy Research Scientific Computing Division) representative
to the DiMI- UC
Discovery Program and he is member of Executive Committee and member of
research council-UC Discovery program. His credentials have led to
front-page news at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory News (Researchers
Use Soft Computing Techniques to Find Hidden Oil Reserves ) and
headline news at the
Electronics Engineering Times (Fuzzy logic is proven stable ).
He was invited lecturer throughout the world including China, Hong Kong,
Finland, Canada, UK, Turkey, and Iran and invited lecture at so many
conferences, IFSA, NAFIPS, FuzzIEEE, IEEEGrc, INDIN, GEECO, ICSCCW, SEG and
SPE. He has been member of IEEE, AICHE, SPE, AAPG, SEG, ACS, NAFIPS, IFSA,
and other scientific scholarly society.
He has been reviewer for NSF, DOE, and UC system since 1996.
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BISC-Directors and Administration
Prof.
Lotfi A. Zadeh – Director
Dr. Masoud Nikravesh –
Executive Director and Program Manager
Prof. C. Sequin – Associate
Director
Prof. M.
Tomizuka – Associate Director
Prof. E. Wong, Associate Director
Ixel Chavez - Administrative
Assistant
Leslie Goldstein- Grants Administrator
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