IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine - August 2020 - 3

President's
Message

Bernadette Bouchon-Meunier
CNRS - Sorbonne Université,
FRANCE

Beyond the COVID-19 Pandemic

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t the time when I write this message, the world is swamped by
the COVID-19 pandemic and I think of all of you, faced
with the danger, the risk, the concern for your loved ones,
the isolation due to a lockdown.Your work in online teaching and
tutoring is essential in these difficult times. As your field of excellence is related to computational intelligence, I am sure that many
of you are involved in Coronavirus research, either as data scientists
or more specifically as specialists of bioinformatics and computational biology. I am
very proud of you and the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society will do what it
can to support you. I sincerely hope that the situation will be better for you when you
will read these lines.
I would like to focus on the so-called COVID-19 Initiative launched by the CIS to
encourage all researchers working on any aspect of the fight against COVID-19 to
submit their papers to the most appropriate IEEE CIS-sponsored or co-sponsored
Transactions. The CIS Editors-in-Chief will expedite, to the extent possible, the processing of all articles submitted on the special COVID-19 track proposed by all these
journals. It is very important to note that all accepted papers will be published, freeof-charge to authors and readers, with free access for one year from the date of the publication, so that the results can be used by other researchers and the community at
large, in an effort to support researchers who dedicate their time to this humanitarian
task and to contribute to the global effort to stop the pandemic. Many thanks to all
the Editors-in-Chief for their instant and unreserved contribution to this initiative.
The CIS conferences will move to a virtual form during the period when no one can
travel normally. It is of course not as friendly as physical meetings, but I can assure you
that every effort will be made to allow with the discussion with the speakers and the networking. I am very grateful to all conference organizers for making this possible, as well as
to all the authors, and in particular all the keynote and tutorial speakers who agreed to
make their presentations remotely, despite the technical difficulties. I even dream that
there will be more of you attending these conferences than expected, as they avoid all
travel expenses and offer you a unique opportunity to access their content from home.
The meetings that should be held on the occasion of CIS conferences, such as the
meetings of Women in Computational Intelligence and students or the chapter forum,
will be replaced by virtual meetings. We are counting on you to explore this new
form of discussion with us. I am also thankful to the CIS technical committee chairs
who lead the activities of their groups in online meetings.
On a more optimistic note, I want to believe that we will all be able to meet physically in at least one of the CIS conferences this year. In particular, I hope to see you in
Canberra for the very rich program of the IEEE SSCI 2020 conference on 1-4
December and its satellite events.
Take care and see you soon!

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Date of current version: 15 July 2020

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
IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence
Hussein Abbass, University of New South Wales,
AUSTRALIA
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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