IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine - August 2018 - 5

Conference
Reports

Jie Lu
Faculty of Engineering and Information technology,
University of Technology Sydney, AUSTrAlIA

Conference Report on IEEE Computational Intelligence
Society ExCom Workshop 2018

n Monday 9th April 2018, the
IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (CIS) ExCom
Workshop was hosted by the Faculty of
Engineering and Information Technology (FEIT) at University of Technology
Sydney (UTS), chaired by Associate
Dean Research Excellence, Distinguished Professor Jie Lu.
Over 120 academic staff, industry
partners and PhD Students from UTS,
University of NSW, University of Sydney and University of Wollongong,
along with IEEE CIS members in the
NSW Chapter attended the workshop.
The UTS IEEE Student Board were
also involved in the facilitation of the
event and on-hand on the day to answer
any questions about IEEE.
In her opening speech, Dist. Prof. Jie
Lu gave an introduction to the IEEE
CIS and its members, mentioning the
vast reach of IEEE and the IEEE CIS
across the world, its international standing as a leading society for technical
professionals and as a world-leading
publisher in the CI field.
Following this, the six IEEE CIS
ExCom members and world renowned
scholars from institutions in France, Taiwan, India, Chile, America and Australia
presented the latest theoretical and
application developments in CI.
During these talks, the speakers covered many interesting areas and applications of CI from neural networks to
classification, from fuzzy systems to

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Prof. Nikhil R. Pal presenting to staff, students, and industry at University Technology Sydney.

autonomous behaviour, and from astronomy to bush-fires.
The talks gave the audience an
opportunity to hear insights from academics at the top of their fields, including significant contributions to new
knowledge and applications with realworld impact.
The audience were inspired, captivated and delighted to hear from renowned
professors on such pertinent topics,
which encouraged a lot of interesting questions.
The program ran as follows:
Prof. Nikhil R. Pal, Electronics and
Communication Sciences Unit, Indian
Statistical Institute & current President of IEEE CIS spoke on "The
open world classification problem:
making neural networks say don't
know."
Prof . Ber nadette BouchonMeunier, Emeritus Director of Research, National Centre for Scientific

Research, Sorbonne University, spoke
on "Fuzzy approaches of information quality."
Prof. Pablo A. Estévez, Electrical
Engineering, Universidad de Chile &
co-founder of the Millennium Institute
of Astrophysics, spoke on "Big data
challenges and deep learning applications to astronomy."
Dist. Prof. James M Keller, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, R.L Tatum Professor, University of
Missouri, spoke on "Recognition technology: Lofti's look to the future from
the late 1990s."
Dist. Prof. Pau-Choo (Julia)
Chung, Director General of the
Department of Information and Technology Education, Ministry of Education,Taiwan spoke on "An overview to
deep learning development."
Prof. Hussein Abbass, School of
Engineering and Information Technology, UNSW, Canberra spoke on "Characterising human and autonomous

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