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maneuvers that were not preconceived
by human pilots. Navy pilots praised its
performance and its use was extended
at the Naval Air Systems Command, the
Naval Weapons Center, and the Air
Force Human Resources Laboratory
from 1973-1981. Burgin also conducted some of the first research in
evolutionary game on coordination,
trust, bargaining, and prisoner's dilemma
games in the late 1960s. Burgin also
applied evolutionary programming in a
novel application of system identification of the then experimental X-15 aircraft. The aircraft, which was operated
by the U.S. Air Force and NASA, was
capable of flying out of the Earth's
atmosphere and return to landing. Burgin's evolutionary algorithm modeled
the roll rate, yaw rate, and other aircraft
dynamics and provided a reliable model
of the X-15 for closed-loop dynamics.
Results were published in 1971. George
Burgin continued his engineering
career at Titan Systems after it acquired
Decision Science, Inc. and later rejoined
working with Larry Fogel at Natural
Selection, Inc. on applications of evolutionary optimization.
Burgin's real pioneering accomplishments lie in his basic teachings
(dating back to the 1960s and 70s) that
digital algorithms are far superior to
analog computer simulations (and real
life implementations) of control systems, something which at that time
was controversial.
After the acquisition of DSI by the
Titan Corporation in 1982, Burgin's
interests shifted gradually to applications
of numerical algorithms and computational intelligence methods in communication systems. Burgin contributed
significantly to the solution of communication problems, some of this work
culminated in the US Patent "Method
and Apparatus for Determination of
Predistortion Parameters for a Quadrature Modulator", granted in 2001. The
company rewarded Burgin with Titan's
"Most Valuable Performer" award in
1985, 1995 and 1998 for his contributions to the design of telecommunication systems with improved capacity,
greater speed and higher reliability

while at the same time reducing the cost
of these systems.
Burgin was on the editorial board
of the journal "Simulation". He himself
contributed numerous papers to that
journal, some of which were subsequently published in McGraw Hill's
book: "Simulation: The modeling of
systems and ideas with computers".
Throughout his career, Burgin
enjoyed teaching operations research
and management science. He was one
of the or iginal instructors in the
UCSD "Executive Program for Scientists and Engineers (EPSE)" in 1982.
This program celebrated its 30th anniversary this year.
Dr. Burgin is "Duly Registered as a
Professional Engineer in control system
engineering in the state of California" and
he is a Life Senior Member of the IEEE.
Outstanding Early Career Award
Haibo He, University of Rhode Island,
USA
For contributions to adaptive learning and
control, intelligent systems, and smart grid.
Haibo He is the
Robert Haas Endowed Professor in
Electrical Engineering at the University of Rhode
Island (Kingston,
RI, USA). He
directs the Computational Intelligence
and Self-Adaptive Systems (CISA) Laboratory and actively pursues research in the
field of computational intelligence and
wide applications to learning and control,
optimization, smart grid, cyber-physical
system, cyber security, and smart grid.
Dr. He has published 2 research books
including "Self-Adaptive Systems for
Machine Intelligence" (Wiley, 2011) and
"Imbalanced Learning: Foundations,
Algorithms, and Applications" (Edited,
Wiley-IEEE, 2013), edited 6 conference
proceedings (Springer), and authored/coauthored over 120 peer-reviewed journal
and conference papers. Many of his publications have created broader impacts in
the society, including Cover Page High-

lighted paper in the IEEE Transactions on
Information Forensics and Security, and
highly cited papers in the IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering,
IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, and
IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery. His
research has been covered and interviewed by national and international
medias such as IEEE Smart Grid Newsletter, Providence Business News, University
of Rhode Island (URI) Big Thinkers,
URI Innovation, among others.
Dr. He has served regularly on the
Organizing Committees and Program
Committees of the international conferences in his field, ranging from the Program Chair for the International Symposium on Neural Networks (ISNN
2009), Industry Liaison (U.S. & Canada)
Chair for the IJCNN 2011, Tutorial
Chair of WCCI-IJCNN 2012, to the
most recently as the Program Co-Chair
of the IEEE WCCI-IJCNN 2014 and
General Chair of the IEEE Symposium
Series on Computer Intelligence (IEEE
SSCI 2014). He also severed at various
capacities to the society ranging from the
past IEEE CIS E-letter Manger, IEEE
CIS Webmaster, to the current Chair of
the IEEE CIS Neural Network Technical Committee (NNTC), Vice-Chair of
the IEEE CIS Smart Grid Task Force,
member of the IEEE-USA Energy Policy Committee, among others.
Dr. He has delivered numerous Keynotes and Invited Talks at various universities and organizations around the
world. He served as the Co FoundingEditor-in-Chief of the Journal of Intelligent Learning Systems and Applications, a
Guest Editor for more than 10 international journals, and currently serves on
the Editorial Board for numerous journals, including an Associate Editor of the
IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and
Learning Systems and IEEE Transactions on
Smart Grid.
He was a recipient of the K. C. Wong
Research Award, Chinese Academy of
Sciences (2012), National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award (2011),
Providence Business News (PBN) "Rising Star Innovator" Award (2011), and
Best Master Thesis Award of Hubei Province, China (2002).

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