IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine - November 2021 - 10

Society
Briefs
Society
Briefs
Cesare Alippi
IEEE CIS 2020 Awards Committee
Chair Politecnico di Milano, ITALY,
and Università della Svizzera
italiana, SWITZERLAND
2021 IEEE CIS Awards
Neural Networks Pioneer Award
Sepp Hochreiter, Johannes Kepler
University Linz, AUSTRIA
For contributions to the development of the
long short-term memory architecture.
Sepp Hochreiter is
heading the Institute
for Machine Learning,
the LIT AI Lab
and the AUDI.JKU
deep learning center
at the Johannes
Kepler University of Linz, Austria and
is director of the Institute of Advanced
Research in Artificial Intelligence
(IARAI). Sepp Hochreiter is a pioneer
of Deep Learning. His contributions
the Long Short-Term Memory
(LSTM) and the analysis of the vanishing
gradient are viewed as milestones
and key-moments of the history of
both machine learning and Deep
Learning. Sepp Hochreiter laid the
foundations for Deep Learning in two
ways. Dr. Hochreiter's seminal works
on the vanishing gradient and the
Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM)
were the starting points for what
became later known as Deep Learning.
LSTM has been overwhelmingly successful
in handwriting recognition,
generation of writings, language
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modeling and identification, automatic
language translation, speech recognition,
analysis of audio data, as well as
analysis, annotation, and description of
video data.
Sepp Hochreiter is full professor at
the Johannes Kepler University, Linz,
Austria and head of the Institute for
Machine Learning. He is a German citizen,
married and has three children.
Fuzzy Systems Pioneer Award
Lawrence O. Hall,
University of South Florida, USA
For acceleration methods in fuzzy clustering
and medical image interpretation.
Lawrence O. Hall
is a Distinguished
University Professor
in the Department
of Computer Science
and Engineering
at the University
of South Florida and the co-Director
of the Institute for Artificial Intelligence
+ X. He is the 2021 IEEE Vice
President for Publications, Products
and Services. He received his Ph.D. in
Computer Science from the Florida
State University in 1986 and a B.S. in
Applied Mathematics from the Florida
Institute of Technology in 1980.
He is a fellow of the IEEE. He is a
fellow of the AAAS, AIMBE and
IAPR. He received the Norbert Wiener
award in 2012 and the Joseph
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Wohl award in 2017 from the IEEE
SMC Society. He is a past President of
the IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics
Society, former EIC of what is
now the IEEE Transactions on
Cybernetics. He is on the editorial
boards of the Proceedings of the
IEEE and IEEE Spectrum. His re -
search interests lie in learning from
big data, distributed machine learning,
medical image understanding,
bioinformatics, pattern recognition,
modeling imprecision in decision
making, and integrating AI into
image processing. He continues to
explore un and semi-super vised
learning using scalable fuzzy ap -
proaches. He has authored or coauthored
over 100 publications in
journals, as well as many conference
papers and book chapters. His work
has been cited over 34,000 times per
Google Scholar. He did early work
showing that unsupervised fuzzy
clustering could be combined with a
knowledge-based approach to segment
brain tumors in an explainable manner.
He has worked on scalable methods
for fuzzy clustering and an
evolutionary algorithm approach to
optimizing fuzzy clusters. With labeled
data, he has done work to learn good
models of small classes. His research
has been funded by agencies such as
the National Science Foundation,
National Institutes of Health, Department
of Energy, DARPA, and NASA.
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