IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine - February 2020 - 3

President's
Message

Bernadette Bouchon-Meunier
CNRS - Sorbonne Université,
FRANCE

To All Members of the Computational
Intelligence Community

t will be my great honor to serve as the president of the IEEE
Computational Intelligence Society in 2020-2021. I am
thankful to all those who have placed their trust in me to continue the great work done by the former presidents to develop the
activity and the visibility of the IEEE CIS and to reinforce service
to all its members.
My perception is that the IEEE Computational Intelligence
Society is both a scientific entity and a community of women and men. From a scientific point of view, the IEEE CIS is a home for all researchers and practitioners working on neural networks, learning systems, fuzzy systems, evolutionary computation,
adaptation paradigms and other nature-inspired computing topics. Many of the techniques developed in the IEEE CIS are at the core of currently trending artificial intelligence realizations. In addition to fundamental research topics, IEEE CIS technical
committees and their task forces address application domains which cover most intelligent systems important to the industry and real-world key issues. We can list, among
others, datamining and big data analytics, web intelligence, affective computing, energy
and smart grid, computer vision, audio processing, aerospace sciences, brain informatics, robotics, cybersecurity, bioinformatics and bioengineering, health, finance, business
intelligence, astronomy, games and smart world.
The most important aspect, from my point of view, is the fact that the IEEE CIS is
a community, a group of scientists of all experience levels, from students to fellows,
interested in theory or applications, from academia or industry, working in all parts of
the world. They share a common area of interest. They have the same capacity to promote Computational Intelligence and to move the IEEE CIS forward.
Chapters and student branches bring members of the IEEE CIS, belonging to the
same local environment, together. Their chairs are both representatives of the IEEE
CIS in local sections and delegates of their country, city or academia to the IEEE CIS
structure. It is of the utmost importance to have active chapter chairs and student
branch chairs, stimulating research and development of Computational Intelligence
around them as well as fostering local cooperations, international relations and expansion of their community. I am very grateful to all of them for their continued effort
and their commitment to the IEEE CIS members. I depend on all of you. I depend
on members of active chapters to continue to make the IEEE CIS a vibrant community. I depend on members of inactive chapters to ask for elections and elect a dynamic board. I also depend on members of the IEEE CIS in parts of the world where
there is no chapter, to create them and make them a success.
Our conferences and journals are the most visible parts of our activities. All of
them reflect the technical advances in the field of Computational Intelligence and
serve as a liaison to the whole community. I express my deep appreciation to the CIS
Editors-in-chief who work every day for the quality of our Transactions and

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CIS Society Officers
President - Bernadette Bouchon-Meunier,
CNRS-Sorbonne Université, FRANCE
Past President - Nikhil R. Pal,
Indian Statistical Institute, INDIA
Vice President - Conferences - Marley M. B. R.
Vellasco, Pontifical Catholic University of
Rio de Janeiro, BRAZIL
Vice President - Education - Simon M. Lucas,
Queen Mary University of London, UK
Vice President - Finances - Pablo A. Estévez,
University of Chile, CHILE
Vice President - Members Activities - Carlos A.
Coello Coello, CINVESTAV-IPN, MEXICO
Vice President - Publications - Jim Keller,
University of Missouri, USA
Vice President - Technical Activities -
Luis Magdalena, Universidad Politecnica
de Madrid, SPAIN
Publication Editors
IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks
and Learning Systems
Haibo He, University of Rhode Island, USA
IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems
Jon Garibaldi, University of Nottingham, UK
IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation
Kay Chen Tan, City University of Hong Kong,
HONG KONG
IEEE Transactions on Games
Julian Togelius, New York University, USA
IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental
Systems
Yaochu Jin, University of Surrey, UK
IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in
Computational Intelligence
Yew Soon Ong, Nanyang Technological University,
SINGAPORE
Administrative Committee
Term ending in 2020:
Janusz Kacprzyk, Polish Academy of Sciences,
POLAND
Sanaz Mostaghim, Otto von Guericke
University of Magdeburg, GERMANY
Christian Wagner, University of Nottingham, UK
Ronald R.Yager, Iona College, USA
Gary G.Yen, Oklahoma State University, USA
Term ending in 2021:
David Fogel, Natural Selection, Inc., USA
Barbara Hammer, Bielefeld University,
GERMANY
Yonghong (Catherine) Huang,
McAfee LLC, USA
Xin Yao, Southern University of Science
and Technology, CHINA
Jacek M. Zurada, University of Louisville, USA
Term ending in 2022:
Cesare Alippi, Politecnico di Milano, ITALY
James C. Bezdek, USA
Gary Fogel, Natural Selection, Inc., USA
Yaochu Jin, University of Surrey, UK
Alice E. Smith, Auburn University, USA

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