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Elmer P. Dadios and Ryan Rhay P. Vicerra
De La Salle University, Philippines

IEEE CIS Philippines Chapter Report

I. The IEEE CIS Philippines Chapter

he IEEE Computational Intelligence Society
(CIS) Philippines Chapter aims
to unite researchers
and scientists with
interest in the field
and promote Computational Intelligence in the Philippines. It was
established in mid 2011 through the
efforts of IEEE CIS members in the
Philippines led by Professor Elmer P.
Dadios at the De La Salle University.
The official web site is www.ieeecis-ph.tk.
The chapter aims to empower
researchers in the field of Computational Intelligence in Philippines through
seminars and workshops, to provide a
venue for meeting other researchers in
the field, to promote research collaboration among one another, and to support
undergraduate and graduate students in
doing their researches.
Towards realizing its goals, the chapter
established a series of lectures featuring
distinguished lecturers abroad and local
researchers. The chapter has conducted
two successful distinguished lectures in
2011, which were attended by IEEE CIS
Philippines chapter members, university
professors, graduate and undergraduate
students. The Chapter also supports Ph.D.
and Masters students in their research
through active advising and mentoring
by the IEEE CIS Philippines Chapter
Chair, Dr. Elmer Dadios and other
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member professors. Research activities
are focused on Fuzzy Logic, Genetic
Algorithm and Artificial Neural Netwo r k s . O n g o i n g
researches include the
d e ve l o p m e n t o f
cooperative robot
systems for soccer
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game and underwater
application, and development of bioinformatics systems for different forms
of cancer.
II. IEEE Distinguished
Lecture Series

On November 4, 2011, the chapter
organized the first part of the IEEE CIS
Philippines Chapter Distinguished Lecture Series. It was held at the William
Shaw Mini Theater of De La Salle University, Taft Ave., Manila. The distinguished lecturers were Dr. Raouf
Naguib of Coventry University and
head of BIOCORE for the morning
session and Dr. Tan Kay Chen of

National University of Singapore for the
afternoon session. Dr. Tan Kay Chen's
visit was sponsored by IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Distinguished
Lecturer Program (DLP).
The attendees present at the event
were six De La Salle university administrators and faculty members, five
Ph.D. students, 12 Masters students and
149 undergraduate students from different engineering universities and colleges in the Philippines. Participants
were delighted by what they learned
during the lectures. Some were able to
integrate the lecturers' inputs to their
research work and many were able to
formulate their own research topics for
thesis and dissertation.
During the event, various members
of the IEEE CIS Philippines Chapter
also presented their research work.
They are as follows: Engr. Ryan Rhay
Vicerra for "Robot Path Planning
Simulator using Genetic Algorithm,"
Engr. Alejandro Ballado for "6-Element High-Gain Yagi-Uda Antenna

Dr. Kay Chen Tan (far right) with committee members of IEEE CIS Philippines Chapter.

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