Dr. Jacek Zurada

Tagline
Candidate for 2019 IEEE President-Elect
Biography
http://www.jacekzurada.org*2018 Candidate for 2019 IEEE President-Elect*Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of Louisville, USA*Author of several textbooks and over 420 publications in neural networks, deep learning and computational intelligence*Chaired the Technical Activities Board as IEEE VP-TA (TAB Chair) in 2014 (2013 Elect and 2015 Past), had multiple IEEE leadership positions in Publications, Services and Products and Technical Activities Boards, was Chair of the TAB Periodicals Committee (2010-11) and Chair of the TAB Periodical Review and Advisory Committee (2012-13)*Active member in the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, was its President (2004-05) and Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks (1998-03)*His technical work was cited over 11,700 times (GS, 5/5/2018)*IEEE Life Fellow with numerous other distinctions, including honorary doctorates and membership in foreign academy of sciences.
Experience
Dean/Professor/Instructor
University of Louisville
Publications
Chorowski, J. and Zurada, J.M., "Learning Understandable Neural Networks With Nonnegative Weight Constraints," Neural Networks and Learning Systems, IEEE Transactions on, vol. 26, no. 1, pp. 62 - 69, 2015.
Teck-Hou Teng, Ah-Hwee Tan, and Zurada, J.M., "Self-Organizing Neural Networks Integrating Domain Knowledge and Reinforcement Learning," Neural Networks and Learning Systems, IEEE Transactions on, vol. 26, no. 5, pp. 889 - 902, 2015.
Nitzken, M.J., Casanova, M.F. Gimelfarb, G. Inanc, T. Zurada, J.M., and El-Baz, A., "Shape Analysis of the Human Brain: A Brief Survey," Biomedical and Health Informatics, IEEE Journal of, vol. 18, no. 4, pp. 1337 - 1354, 2014.
Bin Li, Hongxiang Li, and Zurada, J.M., "Cross-Layer Design of Joint Beamforming and Random Network Coding in Wireless Multicast Networks," Communications Letters, IEEE, vol. 18, no. 12, pp. 2173 - 2176, 2014.
Zhou, W and Zurada, J, "Competitive Layer Model of Discrete-Time Recurrent Neural Networks with LT Neurons," Neural Computation, vol. 22, no. 8, pp. 2137 - 2160, 2010.
Education
ETH Zurich
External Certification
Computer Sciences and Information Technologies , 1978
Technical Univ Of Gdansk,Poland
Doctor of Philosophy
Engineering , 1975