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Kazuo Tanaka,
The University of Electro-Communications,
JAPAN
For contributions to fuzzy control systems
design and analysis.
Kazuo Tanaka received
the Ph.D. degree
in Systems Science
from Tokyo Institute
of Technology in
1990. He was a Visiting
Scientist at University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
in 1992 and 1993. He was elevated to be
an IEEE Fellow for his contribution to
fuzzy control systems design and analysis
in 2014, and International Fuzzy Systems
Association Fellow in 2015. He is
the recipients of more ten awards
including the 2000 IEEE Transactions
on Fuzzy Systems Outstanding Paper
Award for his research. He has been frequently
invited to plenary addresses,
keynote and invited talks at international
conference. He delivered invited
talks/lectures at 2012, 2014 and 2016
IEEE World Congresses on Computational
Intelligence.
He served as the Vice Chair of the
IEEE International Symposium on
Intelligent Control as part of the IEEE
Multi-conference on Systems and Control
in Saint Petersburg, Russia, in 2009.
He was the Chair of Task Forces on
Fuzzy Control Theory and Application
in the IEEE CIS Fuzzy Systems Technical
Committee. He served as an Associate
Editor of Automatica, the IEEE
Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, and is
currently an Associate Editor on the
IEEE Control Systems Society Conference
Editorial Board.
He has made pioneering contributions
to the theory of fuzzy control systems
design and analysis. His research on
fuzzy control systems design and analysis
started in the late 80's with his advisor,
Prof. Michio Sugeno, who is an Emeritus
Professor of Tokyo Institute of Technology
and the first recipient of IEEE
CIS Fuzzy Systems Pioneer Award with
Prof. Lotfi A. Zadeh in 2000. Professor
Tanaka has made extensively contributions
to the development of fuzzy control
theory ever since. In the late 90's, he
The IEEE Computational Intelligence Society annually
recognizes significant contributions and meritorious
service in the field of computational intelligence.
first suggested a linear matrix inequality
(LMI) based design framework for fuzzy
control systems. Recently he also presented
a new sum-of-square (SOS)
approach to overcome some drawbacks
of the LMI approach. Currently, he is
successfully applying his innovative theoretical
results to unmanned aerial vehicles
(UAVs), particularly, flying-wing
type UAVs considered to be some of the
most challenging nonlinear control
problems. He has published more than
100 journal papers in these areas, as well
as 17 books, including the research
monograph entitled Fuzzy Control
Systems Design and Analysis: A Linear
Matrix Inequality Approach (coauthored
with H. O. Wang, Wiley-Interscience,
2001). His papers have over
28,500 citations according to Google
Scholar, with h-index of 55 and i10index
of 147.
Evolutionary Computation
Pioneer Award
Carlos A. Coello Coello,
CINVESTAV-IPN, MEXICO
For contributions to evolutionary multi-objective
optimization and constraint-handling
techniques.
Carlos A. Coello
Coello received a
PhD in Computer
Science from Tulane
University (in the
USA) in 1996. His
research has mainly
focused on the design of new multiobjective
optimization algorithms based
on bio-inspired metaheuristics. Among
other contributions, he proposed the
first micro-genetic algorithm for multiobjective
optimization, the first Paretobased
multi-objective artificial immune
system and new constraint-handling
techniques based on multi-objective
concepts. He currently has more than
500 publications, including more than
170 journal papers and 50 book chapters.
He has published a monographic
book and has edited 3 more books. His
publications currently report over
57,500 citations in Google Scholar (his
h-index is 95). He has received several
awards, including the National Research
Award (in 2007) from the Mexican
Academy of Science (in the area of exact
sciences), the 2009 Medal to the Scientific
Merit from Mexico City's congress, the
Ciudad Capital: Heberto Castillo 2011
Award for scientists under the age of 45,
in Basic Science, the 2012 Scopus Award
(Mexico's edition) for being the most
highly cited scientist in engineering in
Mexico in the 5 years previous to the
award and the 2012 National Medal of
Science in Physics, Mathematics and
Natural Sciences from Mexico's presidency
(this is the most important award
that a scientist can receive in Mexico).
He also received the Luis Elizondo
Award from the Tecnológico de Monterrey
in 2019. Additionally, he is the
recipient of the 2013 IEEE Kiyo Tomiyasu
Award, " for pioneering contributions to
single- and multiobjective optimization techniques
using bioinspired metaheuristics " , and
of the 2016 The World Academy of Sciences
(TWAS) Award in " Engineering
Sciences " . Since January 2011, he is an
IEEE Fellow. He is currently the Editorin-Chief
of the IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary
Computation.
He is currently a Full Professor with
Distinction (Investigador Cinvestav 3F)
at the Department of Computer Science
of the Centro de Investigación y de
Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politécnico
Nacional (CINVESTAV-IPN) in
Mexico City, México.
Meritorious Service Award
Nikhil R. Pal,
Indian Statistical Institute, INDIA
For his leadership in the Computational
Intelligence Society and its publications.
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