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Nikhil R. Pal is a
Professor in the Electronics
and Communication
Sc i ences
Unit and the Head of
the Centre for Artificial
Intelligence and
Machine Learning at the Indian Statistical
Institute. He has also served as a Chair
Professor at the National Chiao Tung
University, Taiwan. His research interests
include modeling and quantifying
different facets of uncertainty, computational
intelligence, machine learning, and
brain science.
He has served the IEEE Computational
Intelligence Society (CIS) in
various capacities. He served as the Editor-in-Chief
of the IEEE Transactions on
Fuzzy Systems (TFS) for six years (20052010).
As the Editor of TFS, he characterized
the necessary attributes that should
be possessed by an " Applications Paper "
and established a 5-phase transparent
guidelines for organizing special issues of
the transactions, which clearly explain the
various phases from the submission of
proposals to publication of accepted special
issues. Handling of a short paper that
comments on some paper published in
the same transactions ( " Comments on
Paper " ) could sometimes be tricky. As
the Editor he established a six-step transparent
procedure for this. He introduced
recognition of Outstanding Associate
Editors (AEs) with certificates of appreciation
during the annual meeting of the
Associate Editors.
He served as an Administrative
Committee (AdCom) member of CIS
for the period 2010-2012. This was followed
by his election as the Vice-President
(VP) for Publications, which he
served for two consecutive terms, 20132016.
As the VP for Publications he took
major initiatives to restructure two cosponsored
transactions to make those
more attractive and was responsible for
the successful proposal of IEEE Transactions
on Emerging Topics in Computational
Intelligence. Prof. Pal served as the
President of CIS for the period 20182019.
He took initiatives to expand the
scope of the CIS Distinguished Lecture
program to include mentoring sessions
to interact with young researchers about
their research problems. The Distinguished
Lecturers are also encouraged to
give an open-to-all additional lecture to
a nearby university/institute for undergraduate
students. He proposed and
took lead to introduce the CIS Member
Get a Member Program (CIS MGM) in
line with the IEEE MGM program.
He is a Fellow of the National Academy
of Sciences, India; Indian National
Science Academy; Indian National Academy
of Engineering; The World Academy
of Sciences, and a Fellow of the IEEE.
IEEE Transactions on Neural
Networks and Learning Systems
Outstanding Paper Award
" Broad Learning System: An Effective
and Efficient Incremental Learning System
Without the Need for Deep
Architecture, " by C.L.Philip Chen
and Zhulin Liu, Vol. 29, No. 1, pp.
10-24, January 2018.
IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy
Systems Outstanding Paper Award
" On Distributed Fuzzy Decision Trees
for Big Data, " by Armando Segatori,
Francesco Marcelloni, and Witold
Pedrycz, Vol. 26, No. 1, pp. 174-192,
February 2018.
IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary
Computation Outstanding
Paper Award
" A Decision Variable Clustering-Based Evolutionary
Algorithm for Large-scale Manyobjective
Optimization, " by Xingyi Zhang,
Ye Tian, Ran Cheng, and Yaochu Jin, Vol. 22,
No. 1, pp. 97-112, February 2018.
IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and
Developmental Systems
Outstanding Paper Award
" Adaptive Robot Path Planning Using a
Spiking Neuron Algorithm with Axonal
Delays, " by Tiffany Hwu, Alexander Y. Wang,
Nicolas Oros, and Jeffrey L. Krichmar,
Vol.10, No. 2, pp. 126-137, June 2018.
IEEE Transactions on Games
Outstanding Paper Award
" Game Tree Search Based on Nondeterministic
Action Scripts in Real-Time
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Strategy Games, " by Nicolas A. Barriga,
Marius Stanescu, and Michael Buro, Vol.
10, No. 1, pp. 69-77, March 2018.
IEEE Transactions on Emerging
Topics in Computational
Intelligence Outstanding
Paper Award
" Light Gated Recurrent Units for
Speech Recognition, " by Mirco Ravanelli,
Philemon Brakel, Maurizio
Omologo, and Yoshua Bengio, Vol. 2,
No. 2, pp. 92-102, April 2018.
IEEE Computational Intelligence
Magazine Outstanding Paper
Award
" Recent Trends in Deep Learning Based
Natural Language Processing, " by Tom
Young, Devamanyu Hazarika, Soujanya
Poria, and Erik Cambria, Vol. 13, No. 3,
pp. 55-75, August 2018.
Outstanding Chapter Award
IEEE CIS Student Chapter at the Universidade
de Brasilia
Outstanding Organization Award
McAfee
Outstanding PhD Dissertation
Award
Shouyong Jiang for
his thesis entitled
" Evolutionary Al -
gorithms for Static
and Dynamic Multiobjective
Optimization "
for the degree
of Doctor of Philosophy, De Montfort
University, UK, 2017.
Supervisor: Shengxiang Yang, De
Montfort University, UK.
Abstract− Many real-world optimization
problems consist of conflicting
objectives that need to be optimized
simultaneously. Due to the presence of
multiobjectivity, there is no single solution
that can optimize all the objectives.
Therefore, the resulting multiobjective
optimization problems (MOPs) resort to
a set of trade-off optimal solutions,
called the Pareto set in the decision
space and the Pareto front in the objective
space. Traditional optimization
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