At USC
- Came to USC in 1974 from McDonnell Douglas
- Professor of Electrical Engineering and Systems Architecture
Engineering
Education..
- Ph. D. in Electrical Engineering, Polytechnic Institute of
Brooklyn, Brooklyn, NY
- M. S. in Electrical Engineering, Polytechnic Institute of
Brooklyn, Brooklyn, NY
- B. S. in Mechanical Engineering, Polytechnic Institute of
Brooklyn, Brooklyn, NY
Honors and Awards..
- Life-Fellow of the IEEE
- Distinguished Member of the IEEE Control Systems Society
- Tau Beta Pi
- Pi Tau Sigma
- Sigma Xi
- SEG 1976 Outstanding Presentation Award for a paper on the
application of Kalman Filtering to deconvolution, 1976
- Best Transactions Paper Award for a paper on maximum-likelihood
deconvolution in the IEEE Trans. on Geoscience and Remote
Sensing, 1983, co-authored with John Kormylo
- 1992 Signal Processing Society Paper Award for a paper on
identification of nonminimum phase systems using higher-order
statistics in the IEEE Trans. on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal
Processing, 1989, co-authored with Georgios Giannakis
- Phi Kappa Phi book award for 1983 research monograph on seismic
deconvolution
- Burlington Northern Faculty Achievement Award, 1995
- IEEE Centenniel Medal, 1984
- President of the IEEE Control Systems Society in 1986
- Service Award from the School of Engineering at USC, 1993
- IEEE Third Millenium Medal, 2000
- 2002 Outstanding Transactions Paper Award for a paper on
type-2 fuzzy logic systems in the IEEE Trans. on Fuzzy Systems,
1999, co-authored with Nilesh Karnik and Qilian Liang
- Special Education Award from the School of Engineering at
USC, 2002
- Pioneer Award from the IEEE Granular Computing Conference,
May 2006, for Outstanding Contributions in Type-2 Fuzzy Systems
- Visiting Professor, Centre
for Computational Intelligence, DeMontfort University, Leicester,
UK (2004-present)
- Fuzzy Systems Pioneer Award for "fundamental theortical
contributions and seminal results in fuzzy systems," from
the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, 2008.
- Fellow of the International Fuzzy Systems Association (IFSA),
2009.
Research Interests.
- type-2 fuzzy logic: theory
- type-2 fuzzy logic systems: applications in signal processing,
pattern recognition, smart oil field technologies
- Aggregation/fusion using fuzzy set theory, e.g. fuzzy weighted
average and linguistic weighted average
- Computing with words: perceptual computing to assist people
in making subjective judgments
Publications.
- more than 480 technical papers
- author or editor of nine books, including
- Perceptual Computing: Aiding People in Making Subjective
Judgments (John Wiley & IEEE Press, 2010), Dongrui Wu
(co-author)
- Uncertain Rule-Based Fuzzy Logic Systems: Introduction
and New Directions (Prentice-Hall, 2001)
- Lessons in Estimation Theory for Signal Processing,
Communications and Control (Prentice-Hall, 1995)
- Maximum-Likelihood Deconvolution (Springer-Verlag,
1990)
- Two tutorials published in the IEEE Proceedings:
- "Fuzzy Logic Systems for Engineering," Proc.
of IEEE, vol.83, pp. 345-377, March 1995. Corrections to
this paper appear in vol. 83, p. 1293, Sept. 1995.
- "Tutorial on Higher-Order Statistics (Spectra) in Signal
Processing and System Theory: Theoretical Results and Some Applications,"
Proc. of IEEE, vol. 79, pp. 278-305, 1991.
Recent Service.
- Associate Editor of IEEE Trans. on Fuzzy Systems
- Chairman of the Computing With Words Task Force of
the Fuzzy Systems Technical Committee in the IEEE Computational
Intelligence Society
- Elected member of the Administrative Committee of the IEEE
Computational Intelligence Society
Recreation.
- Bridge
- Opera buff
- Reading