Speaker of 6th IICCI Prof. Lotfi Zadeh Memorial Lecture
Professor Witold Pedrycz
University of Alberta, Canada
Fellow of IEEE, Fellow, Royal Society of Canada
Witold Pedrycz (IEEE Life Fellow,
2021) is Professor and Canada Research Chair (CRC) in
Computational Intelligence in the Department of
Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of
Alberta, Edmonton, Canada. He is also with the Systems
Research Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences,
Warsaw, Poland. In 2009 Dr. Pedrycz was elected a
foreign member of the Polish Academy of Sciences. In
2012 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of
Canada. In 2007 he received a prestigious Norbert Wiener
award from the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics
Society. He is a recipient of the IEEE Canada Computer
Engineering Medal, a Cajastur Prize for Soft Computing
from the European Centre for Soft Computing, a Killam
Prize, a Fuzzy Pioneer Award from the IEEE Computational
Intelligence Society, and 2019 Meritorious Service Award
from the IEEE Systems Man and Cybernetics Society.
His main research directions involve Computational
Intelligence, fuzzy modeling and Granular Computing,
knowledge discovery and data science, pattern
recognition, data science, knowledge-based neural
networks among others. Dr. Pedrycz is vigorously
involved in editorial activities. He is an
Editor-in-Chief of Information Sciences, Editor-in-Chief
of WIREs Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery (Wiley),
and Co-editor-in-Chief of Int. J. of Granular Computing
(Springer) and J. of Data Information and Management
(Springer). He serves on an Advisory Board of IEEE
Transactions on Fuzzy Systems and is a member of a
number of editorial boards of international journals.