IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine - November 2021 - 3

President's
Message
Bernadette Bouchon-Meunier
CNRS-Sorbonne Université,
FRANCE
CIS Society Officers
President - Bernadette Bouchon-Meunier,
Sorbonne Université, FRANCE
President Elect - Jim Keller, University of
Missouri, USA
After Two Years
T
his is my last message to you as President of the IEEE
Computational Intelligence Society, after two years of living
with the pandemic. What happened during these two
years? Progress has been made on our priorities.
A first priority is the relation with Artificial Intelligence. The
IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence has been launched in
2020, three issues have been published in this first year and 6 are
expected in 2021. Thanks to our past President Nikhil Pal for initiating the collaboration
with our four partner societies to create this journal establishing more than ever
the intertwining of Computational Intelligence with Artificial Intelligence, and thanks
to its founding editor-in-chief Hussein Abbass. To complete our interactions with
Artificial Intelligence, the first IEEE Conference on Artificial Intelligence will be
organized in the Santa Clara Valley, USA, in June 2023, led by the CIS.
Another of our priorities is the diversity in all its forms in our activities.
Regarding diversity in the sector of activity, we have focused for two years on
strengthening relationships with industry, with the hope to have more members from
industry involved in the life of the Society, being promoted to senior and fellow
grades, participating in technical committees and conference organization. Two surveys
have been sent to all CIS members to identify the expectations of all categories
of members, depending on their gender, their age and experience, their geographical
origin and more specifically their industrial, governmental or academic position.
Their results have already been taken into account to the extent possible. A major
event in this regard is the decision of the CIS Administrative Committee to create a
new Committee for Industrial and Governmental Activities, starting in January 2021,
with Piero Bonissone as the founding Vice President. There is no doubt that this
committee will present a new vision of Computational Intelligence, highlighting real
world applications, proposing standards, and participating in ethical achievements of
Artificial Intelligence.
Another aspect of diversity, gender balance, is a tradition of the CIS. This year, 30%
of CIS Distinguished Lecturers are women, around 40% of CIS subcommittee and
technical chairs are women, 50% of the CIS Executive Committee are women, an
exceptional participation of women in management positions. According to the IEEE
Women in Engineering pledge that we decided to support in 2020, the organizers of
CIS sponsored conferences and events work to invite panelists, keynote and plenary
speakers of both genders.
An effort is also done to involve CIS members from all regions and special attention
is given to the region of chairs and members of subcommittees, standing and
technical committees in order to take into account all parts of the world. CIS sponsored
conferences are organized every year around the world. The IEEE Latin American
Conference on Computational Intelligence is a prototype of a regional
conference allowing local CIS chapters to have a common activity. Chapters are
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Vice President - Conferences - Marley M. B. R.
Vellasco, Pontifical Catholic University of
Rio de Janeiro, BRAZIL
Vice President - Education - Pau-Choo (Julia)
Chung, National Cheng Kung University, TAIWAN
Vice President - Finances - Pablo A. Estévez,
University of Chile, CHILE
Vice President - Members Activities - Sanaz
Mostaghim, Otto von Guericke University of
Magdeburg, GERMANY
Vice President - Publications - Kay Chen Tan,
Hong Kong Polytechnic University, HONG KONG
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
Carlos A. Coello Coello, CINVESTAV-IPN,
MEXICO
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 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
Term ending in 2023:
Piero P. Bonissone, Piero P Bonissone Analytics
LLC, USA
Oscar Cordón, University of Granada, SPAIN
Pauline Haddow, Norwegian University of Science
and Technology, NORWAY
Haibo He, University of Rhode Island, USA
Hisao Ishibuchi, Southern University of Science
and Technology, CHINA
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