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BISC Visitors & Visiting Program

VISITING OPPORTUNITIES: Download Forms
The BISC visiting opportunities are limited to the BISC research program, BISC-ILP and BISC-BEECSA members.
For more information please contact:
Dr. Masoud Nikravesh and Prof. Lotfi A. Zadeh

The objective of the program is to encourage close cooperation between the industrial, government, and academic communities and the BISC program. This collaboration includes a faster transfer and exchange of our research results, implementation of focused research on problems of interest to members, increased members' access to publications, students, and faculty, and involvement in research and education through grants to support our activities at BISC program.

BISC-Directors and Administration

Prof. Lotfi A. Zadeh – Director

Dr. Masoud Nikravesh - Executive Director and Program Administrator

Prof. C. Sequin - Associate Director

Prof. M. Tomizuka - Associate Director

Prof. E. Wong – Associate Director

Ixel Chavez - Administrative Assistant

Leslie Goldstein- Grants Administrator

BISC Visitors (2005-2006)

Ø Prof. Barbara Diaz, Visiting from Spain (3/1/04-3/1/06)

Research: Knowledge Discovery and Fuzzy Rule Systems in Economics

Ø Tomohiro Takagi (Japan) Soft Computing and Search Engines (6/03-9/05)

Ø Kaj-Mikael Bjork (Finland) Supply Chains and Soft Computing (4/04-4/05)

Ø Mirza Beg, IIT- India, Search Engine and Question Answering 11/05-10/06)

Ø Zengchang Qin – UK, Search Engine and Question Answering (2/06-1/07)

Ø Ramon Leonato; Spain, Agents and Soft Computing (9/05- 03/06),

Ø Prof. Sanguk Noh , Korea, Decision Analysis and Soft Computing, (12/05-12/07)

Ø Prof. M.-R. Akbarzadeh (USA), Multi Agents and Soft Computing (12/05-12/06)

Ø Dr. Tero Joronen, Finland, Control and Soft Computing (09/06-12/06)

Ø Dr. Zhiheng Huang, UK, BISC-DSS and Decision Trees (03/06-04/07)

BISC Visitors (2004-2005)

Ø Sema Alptekin (USA) Soft Computing 3/04-3/05

Ø Tomohiro Takagi (Japan) Soft Computing and Search Engines 6/03-6/05

Ø Barbara Diaz (Spain) Soft Computing and PNL 2/04-2/06

Ø Souad BenSoafi (France) Signal Processing 2/03-8/04

Ø Shuhua Liu (Finland) Natural Languages 4/04-8/04

Ø Seyed Shahrestani (Australia) Soft Computing 6/04-7/04

Ø Kaj-Mikael Bjork (Finland) Soft Computing 4/04-4/05

Ø Mahnaz Hassibi (USA) Signal Processing 2/04-8/04

BISC Visitors (2003-2004)

Ø Souad Souafi-Bensafi - 2/1/03-12/31/04. Research: Genetic Programming in machine learning and document image analysis and structure recognition

Ø Tomohiro Takagi - He visited on 7/26/03-8/31/03. Came back as a scholar: 3/15/04-5/31/05.
Research: Web intelligence and conceptual search engine and navigation

Ø Sema Alptekin (9/1/03-5/31/04; extended time: 6/1/04-6/30/05)
Research: Development of Embedded Soft Computing Applications for Micro Platforms"

Ø Martine De Cock (9/1/03-12/21/03)
Research: Fuzziness and Uncertainty Modeling

Ø Barbara Diaz Diez (3/1/04-3/1/05)
Research: Knowledge Discovery and Fuzzy Rule Systems in Economics

Ø Sergio Guadarrama (8/5/03-6/1/04)
Research: Search Engines and Soft Computing

Ø Chin-Teng Lin (12/20/03-3/31/04)
Research: Fuzzy Neural Networks and Support Vector Machines

Ø Shuhua Liu (5/5/04-11/15/04)
Research: Enhancing Fuzzy Software Agents

BISC Visitors (2002-2003)

Ø Prof. Soon Hak Kwon; Professor; South Korea; March 2002-Jan 2003; Similarity and Internet

Ø Dr. Andreas Nuernberger; Post Doc, Germany; 2001-April 2003; Web Data Mining

Ø Prof. Christin Wahmkow; Professor, Germany; March 2002-July 2002; Increase Driving Safety of Cars

Ø Prof. Dr. Mihai Nadin; Professor; Germany; March 2002-August 2002; CTP and PNL

Ø Prof. Tomohiro Takagi Takagi; Professor; Japan, June 2002 and August-September 2002; Internet; Search Engine Software Development

Ø Shinmura; Student; Japan; August-September 2002; Internet; Search Engine Software Development

Ø Ogaya; Student; Japan; August-September 2002; Internet; Search Engine Software Development

Ø Prof. V.Korotkich; Professor; Australia; Nov 2002-Feb 2003; Optimization and Fuzzy Partial Differential Equation

Ø Dr. Aynur Unal; USA; June 2002-June 2003; Supply Chain

Ø Tero Joronen; Ph.D. Student; Finland; Sept 2002-Dec 2002; Advanced Control

Ø Shuangyu Chang; BISC Post Doc; Sept 2002-Sept 2003; Speech

BISC Visitors (2001-2002)

Ø Prof. Dae-Young Choi, Korea, Aggregation and Internet; Jan 2001-Dec 2001

Ø Marcin Detyniecki; PostDoc, France, Aggregation and Decision Tree; Jan 2001-Dec 2001

Ø Virginia Johnson; LLNL Staff, USA, Decision Analysis, Jan 2001-June 2001.

Ø Andreas Nuernberger; PostDoc; Germany, April 2001-Dec 2001; Fuzzy Logic and Internet

Ø Prof. Wheyming Song; Prof., Taiwan, Operation Research and Management; April 2001- Jan 2002

Ø Prof. Tomohiro Takagi; Prof.; Japan, Fuzzy Logic and the Internet; August 2001

Ø Tru Cao; Visitor, UK, Semantic Web, August 2001-September 2001

Ø Mana Haeri; Visistor, USA, E-Business, August 2000-August 2001

Ø Fred Aminzadeh, Fact CEO; USA, Reservoir Characterization and Modeling, August 2000-August 2001

Ø Prof. Anvari; Visitor/Staff, USA, Knowledge Management, Jan 2001-Dec 2001

Ø Dr. Andreas Nuernberger; PostDoc, Germany; 2001-April 2003; Web Data Mining

Ø Prof. Christin Wahmkow; Professor, Germany; March 2002-July 2002; Increase Driving Safety of Cars

Ø Prof. Dr. H.-J. Sebastian

Ø Dr. Mitsuru Iwata

Ø Dr. Cindy Mason

Ø Prof. J.A. Olivas

Ø Prof. Ana M. Garcia-Serrano

BISC Visitors (2000-2001)