Profesor dr Jacek M. Żurada przemawia podczas The 3rd International Congress on Image and Signal Processing (CISP 2010) and the 3rd International Conference on BioMedical Engineering and Informatics (BMEI 2010), który odbył się w miejscowości Yantai w Chinach w dniach 16-18 października 2010. Foto dzięki uprzejmości the University of Louisville

Profesor dr Jacek M. Żurada, członek zagraniczny Polskiej Akademii Nauk i członek Rady Kuratorów PAN (Wydział IV Nauk Technicznych) został powołany na Przewodniczącego Komisji Oceny Periodyków IEEE w USA na lata 2012-13.

IEEE zrzesza ponad 400 tysięcy inżynierów i naukowców z ponad 160 krajów świata, jest największym na świecie wydawcą czasopism naukowych w dziedzinie elektroniki, informatyki i telekomunikacji.
Używany od wielu lat skrót IEEE pochodzi od legendarnego the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers w USA.

Łączna liczba wydawanych tytułów IEEE Transactions, Journals and Magazines sięga 150.

Komisja Oceny Periodyków IEEE dokonuje okresowej analizy oceny jakości istniejących tytułów pod kątem właściwych kryteriów recenzji, składu komitetów redakcyjnych i poziomu wydawniczego.

Wszystkie czasopisma IEEE znajdują na tzw. liście filadelfijskiej, a wiele z nich zajmuje czołowe rankingi pod względem tzw. Impact Factor.

Według statystyk z 2011 roku, na liście 20 czołowych periodyków w dziedzinie inżynierii elektrycznej i elektroniki znajduje się 16 czasopism wydawanych przez IEEE, wśród 10 najwyżej notowanych periodyków w dziedzinie telekomunikacji jest 8 tytułów IEEE oraz 6 tytułów w dziedzinie architektury i sprzętu komputerowego.

Portal publikacji IEEE zwany IEEE Xplore zawiera ponad 3,1 mln artykułów dostępnych dla bibliotek, członków IEEE oraz subskrybentów.

Profesor Jacek M. Żurada jest specjalistą w dziedzinie inteligencji obliczeniowej i systemów nabywających wiedzę.

Okładka książki Artificial Neural Systems autorstwa profesora dr Jacka M. Żurady. Foto dzięki uprzejmości Amazon.com

Zatrudniony jako profesor i University Scholar w University of Louisville w USA, jest autorem ponad 360 publikacji i kilku monografii, profesorem tytularnym w Polsce i doktorem h.c. trzech uniwersytetów w Chinach.

Profesor Jacek M. Żurada uczestniczy w wielu międzynarodowych kongresach, konferencjach, kolegiach redakcyjnych i licznych inicjatywach naukowych na całym świecie.

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Zurada elected to top IEEE committee post


Professor Jacek M. Zurada, electrical and computer engineering, J.B. Speed School of Engineering, has been elected as chair of the IEEE TAB Periodicals Review and Advisory Committee for 2012-13.

IEEE publishes leading 150 engineering periodicals known as IEEE Transactions, Journals and Magazines.

According to the 2011 Journal of Citations Report, 16 IEEE periodicals rank among the top 20 journals in electrical and electronic engineering, 8 in the top 10 journals in telecommunications, and 6 in the top 10 journals in computer science, hardware & architecture.

President of Poland Aleksander Kwasniewski (left) presented professor Jacek Zurada with that nation’s highest academic award in a ceremony in July 2003. Courtesy of the University of Louisville

IEEE at a Glance

IEEE is the world’s largest professional association dedicated to advancing technological innovation and excellence for the benefit of humanity.

IEEE and its members inspire a global community through its highly cited publications, conferences, technology standards, and professional and educational activities.

The following information provides an overview of IEEE offerings and services.


IEEE Quick Facts

IEEE has:

• more than 400,000 members in more than 160 countries; 45 percent of whom are from outside the United States;

• more than 100,000 student members;

• 333 sections in 10 geographic regions worldwide;

• 2,081 chapters that unite local members with similar technical interests;

• 1,855 student branches at colleges and universities in 80 countries;

• 533 student branch chapters of IEEE technical societies; and

• 380 affinity groups - IEEE Affinity Groups are non-technical sub-units of one or more Sections or a Council. The Affinity Group patent entities are the IEEE-USA Consultants' Network, Graduates of the Last Decade (GOLD), Women in Engineering (WIE) and Life Members (LM).

IEEE:

• has 38 societies and 7 technical councils representing the wide range of IEEE technical interests;

• has nearly 3 million documents in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library with more than 7 million downloads each month;

• has 1,300 standards and projects under development;

• publishes more than 150 transactions, journals and magazines;

• sponsors more than 1,200 conferences in 78 countries while:
o partnering with more than 1,100 non-IEEE entities globally;
o attracting more than 450,000 conference attendees; and
o publishing more than 1,200 conference proceedings via IEEE Xplore

*Data current as of 31 Dec 2010. This information is updated annually.


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Jacek M. Zurada

Jacek M. Zurada received his MS and PhD degrees (with distinction) in electrical engineering from the Technical University of Gdansk, Poland.

Dr. Jacek Zurada Foto courtesy of the University of Louisville

Since 1989 he has been a Professor with the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of Louisville, Kentucky.
He was Department Chair from 2004 to 2006.

He has published over 360 journal and conference papers in the areas of neural networks, computational intelligence, data mining, image processing and VLSI circuits.

He also has authored or co-authored three books, including the 1992 PWS text Introduction to Artificial Neural Systems, co-edited the 1994 IEEE Press volume Computational Intelligence: Imitating Life, the 2000 MIT Press volume Knowledge-Based Neurocomputing, and co-edited eight 2006, 2008, and 2010 volumes in Springer Lecture Notes on Computer Science.

Dr. Cornelio Yanez Marquez, Dr. Jacek M. Zurada (President of IEEE Computational Intelligence Society 2004-2005) and Itzama Lopez Yanez. Third International Symposium on Neural Networks, Chengdu, China, May 28 - June 1, 2006. Foto courtesy of the University of Louisville

He has held visiting appointments at Princeton, Northeastern, Auburn, and at foreign universities in Australia, Chile, China, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Italy, Japan, Poland, Singapore, Spain, South Africa and Taiwan.

He has delivered numerous invited and plenary conference presentations and seminars throughout the world.

In addition to his pioneering neural networks textbook, his most recognized achievements include:
extension of complex-valued neurons to associative memories and perception networks; sensitivity concepts applied to multilayer neural networks; application of networks for clustering, biomedical image classification and drug dosing; blind sources separation; and rule extraction as a tool for prediction of protein secondary structure. His other contributions include "lambda" learning rule of perceptron and invention of a switching hysteresis of NMOS and CMOS logic gates.

Dr. Greg Creech (left) and Dr. Jacek Zurada, former Chair of ECE, (right) posed for a picture during an Awards ceremony at the Homecoming Reunion Dinner at the Marriot Downtown. Dec 1, 2006. Courtesy of the University of Louisville

Dr. Zurada was an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems, Part I and Part II, and served on the Editorial Board of the Proceedings of IEEE.

From 1998 to 2003 he was the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks.

He is an Associate Editor of Neural Networks, Neurocomputing, Schedae Informaticae, International Journal of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, Advisory Editor of International Journal of Computational Intelligence and Applications, Senior Editor of IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine, and Editor of Springer Natural Computing Book Series.

He has served the profession and the IEEE in various elected capacities, including as President of IEEE Computational Intelligence Society in 2004-05.

Dr. Jacek Zurada after reception of the IEEE fellow title with students. Foto courtesy of the University of Louisville

He has been member and Chair of various IEEE CIS and IEEE TAB committees, including the IEEE TAB Periodicals Committee and IEEE TAB Periodicals Review Committee.

He was the Founding Chair of the NNC Neural Networks Technical Committee. In 2010-11 he serves as IEEE TAB Periodicals Committee Chair and in 2011 as IEEE PSPB Vice-Chair.

The Periodicals Committee is a policy formulating body and has oversight of over 140 periodicals published by IEEE.

Dr. Zurada has received a number of awards for distinction in research, teaching, and service.

Dr. Zurada and his students at a poster at the ICNN'96 conference in Atlanta. Courtesy of the University of Louisville

In addition to several best paper awards, his honors include the 1993 Presidential Award for Research, Scholarship and Creative Activity, 1997 Polish Ministry of National Education Award, 1999 IEEE Circuits and Systems Society Golden Jubilee Medal, and the 2001 Presidential Distinguished Service Award for Service to the Profession.

He is a Distinguished Speaker of IEEE CIS and IEEE Fellow.

In 2003 he was conferred the Title of National Professor by the President of Poland.

In 2004, 2006, and 2010 respectively, he received Honorary Professorships from Hebei University, from the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, and from Sichuan University, Chengdu, all in China.

Since 2005 he is a Member of the Polish Academy of Sciences, and serves as a Senior Fulbright Specialist in 2006-11.


Source: the University of Louisville

http://ci.louisville.edu/zurada/  



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