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IEEE CIS IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation Outstanding
Paper Award. He has published over 200
refereed journal and conference papers.
His team won the first place in the
IEEE CEC'2019 competition on LargeScale Global Optimization (LSGO).
He serves as an Associate Editor of
the IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary
Computation, Swar m Intelligence
(Springer), and International Journal of
Swarm Intelligence Research. He is a
founding member of IEEE CIS Task
Force on Swarm Intelligence, a vicechair of IEEE Task Force on Multi-modal
Optimization, and a former chair of
IEEE CIS Task Force on Large-Scale
Global Optimization.
Ujjwal Maulik
Jadavpur University, INDIA
for development of algorithms in evolutionary
clustering and bioinformatics.
Dr. Maulik completed his bachelor both
in Physics and Computer Science from
Calcutta University
and master and Ph. D.
from Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India. Currently he is a
Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Jadavpur
University since 2004. He was also the
former chair of the same Department.
He held the position of the Principal in
charge and the Head of the Department of
Computer Science and Engineering, Kalyani Government Engineering College.
Dr. Maulik worked in many universities
and research laboratories around the
world as visiting Professor/Scientist
including Los Alamos National Lab.,
USA in 1997, Univ. of New South
Wales, Australia in 1999, Univ. of Texas
at Arlington, USA in 2001, Univ. of
Maryland at Baltimore County, USA in
2004, Fraunhofer Institute for Autonome Intelligent Systems, St. Augustin,
Germany in 2005, Tsinghua Univ.,
China in 2007, Sapienza Univ., Rome,
Italy in 2008, Univ. of Heidelberg, Germany in 2009, Ger man Cancer
Research Center (DKFZ), Germany in
2010, 2011 and 2012, Grenoble INP,

France in 2010, 2013 and 2016, University of Warsaw in 2013 and 2019, University of Padova, Italy in 2014 and
2016, Corvinus University, Budapest,
2015 and 2016, University of Slovenia
in 2015 and 2017, International Center
for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) in 2014,
2017 and 2018. He is the recipient of
Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship
during 2010, 2011 and 2012 and Senior
Associate of ICTP, Italy during 2012-
2018. He has also visited many more
countries for delivering invited lectures
and attending meetings. Dr. Maulik has
already supervised twenty doctoral students who are working in well-known
academic institutions around the world.
He was the Chair of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (CIS),
Kolkata Chapter, India, 2013, 2014 and
2016. He is the Fellow of Institute of
Electrical and Electronics Engineers
(IEEE), International Association for
Pattern Recognition (IAPR), Indian
Academy of Engineers (INAE).
Dr. Maulik has published 9 books
and more than 300 research publications
in well-known journals and conferences.
He is severing in the editorial board of a
number of well-known journals. His
research interests include Computational
Intelligence and Machine Learning, Pattern Recognition and Data Mining,
Bioinformatics, Multi-objective Optimization and Social Networking.
Yongduan Song
Chongqing University, CHINA
for contributions to neural adaptive and faulttolerant control techniques.
Yongduan Song re ceived the Ph.D.
degree in electrical
and computer engineering from Tennessee Technolog ical
University, Cookeville, TN, USA, in 1992. He held a tenured Full Professor with North Carolina
A&T State University, Greensboro, NC,
USA, from 1993 to 2008 and a Langley
Distinguished Professor with the
National Institute of Aerospace, Hampton, VA, USA, from 2005 to 2008. He is
currently the Dean of the School of

Automation, Chongqing University,
Chongqing, China. He was one of the
six Langley Distinguished Professors
with the National Institute of Aerospace
(NIA), Hampton, VA, USA, and the
Founding Director of Cooperative Systems with NIA.
His current research interests include
intelligent systems, guidance navigation
and control, bio-inspired adaptive and
cooperative systems.
Prof. Song was a recipient of several
competitive research awards from the
National Science Foundation, the
National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the U.S. Air Force Office, the
U.S. Army Research Office, and the U.S.
Naval Research Office.
He has served/been serving as an
Associate Editor of a number of journals, including the IEEE Transactions on
Automatic Control, IEEE Transactions
on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent
Transportation Systems, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics,
and IEEE Transactions on Developmental and Cognitive Systems, etc.
Zhigang Zeng
Huazhong University of Science
and Technology, CHINA
for contributions to analysis and synthesis of
neurodynamic systems.
Zhigang Zeng is a
Professor at School
of Artificial Intelligence and Automation, Huazhong University of Science and
Technology, Wuhan,
Hubei, China. He received the Doctor
of Science Degree in systems analysis
and integration from Huazhong University of Science and Technology in
2003. His current research interests
include neural networks and stability
analysis of dynamic systems. He developed a new region partition method,
and characterized the attractive regions
and locations of the attractors. Mathematically fundamental work was
obtained to explain how many and
where the exponentially stable attractors
can emerge. The results he obtained

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