ieee cis awards committee report june 20, 2013 cancun, mexico
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IEEE CISAWARDS COMMITTEE
REPORT
June 20, 2013
Cancun, Mexico
CALLEXECUTIVE SESSION
Awards Committee
Jose Principe (chair)
Piero Bonissone
Bernadette Bouchon-Meunier
Yaochu Jin
Derong Liu
CIS Awards
1- Neural Networks Pioneer Award
2- Fuzzy Systems Pioneer Award
3- Evolutionary Computation Pioneer Award
4- Meritorious Service Award
5- Outstanding Early Career Award
6- Outstanding Chapter Award
7- Outstanding PhD Dissertation Award
8- Outstanding Organization Award
CIS Awards
Outstanding Transaction Paper Award
9- T. Neural Networks and Learning Systems
10- T. Fuzzy Systems
11- T. Evolutionary Computation
12- T. Autonomous Mental Development
13- T. Computational Intelligence and AI in Games
14- Computational Intelligence Magazine
CIS Awards
Big thanks to all the committee members
The motions I will present were all elaborated and passed by the respective subcommittees and unanimously approved by the award committee.
NN Pioneer Award Recipients2013, Frank Lewis2012, N/A2011, Jose C. Principe2010, Vladimir Vapnik2009, John G. Taylor2008, Gail Carpenter, Kumpati S. Narendra2007, Michael Jordan2006, Donald Specht, Erkki Oja2005, Carver Mead2004, Andrew Barto2003, Kunihiko Fukushima2002, Terrence Sejnowski2001, David E. Rumelhart, James L. McCelland2000, Leon Chua1999, Robert Hecht-Nielsen1998, Geoffrey E. Hinton1997, John J. Hopfield1996, N/A1995, Michael A. Arbib, Nils J. Nilsson, Paul J. Werbos1994, Christoph von der Malsburg1993, Thomas M. Cover1992, Shun-Ichi Amari, Walter Freeman, David Willshaw1991, Bernard Widrow, Stephen Grossberg, Teuvo Kohonen
2014 CISNeural Networks Pioneer Award
Motion 1:Bestow the 2014 IEEE CIS Neural Networks Pioneer Award to: Yann LeCun
For
Significant contributions to convolutional neural networks and their application to pattern recognition and computer vision
Motion 2:
Bestow the 2014 IEEE CIS Neural Networks Pioneer Award to: Jun Wang
For
Significant contributions to neurodynamic optimization and its engineering applications
FS Pioneer Award Recipients
2013, Wytold Pedrycz
2012, Piero P. Bonissone, Abraham Kandel
2011, Hans J. Zimmermann
2010, Hideo Tanaka
2009, Tomohiro Takagi, Enrique H. Ruspini
2008, Jerry M. Mendel, Takeshi Yamakawa
2007, Jim Keller, George Klir
2006, Janusz Kacprzyk
2005, Enric Trillas
2004, Ronald Yager
2003, Ebrahim Mamdani
2002, Didier Dubois, Henri Prade
2001, James Bezdek
2000, Lotfi Zadeh, Michio Sugeno
2014 CISFuzzy Systems Pioneer Award
Motion:Bestow the 2014 IEEE CIS Fuzzy Systems Pioneer Award to Masaharu Mizumoto
for
Significant contributions to the foundations of fuzzy set theory
EC Pioneer Award Recipients
2013, Xin Yao
2012, J.David Schaffer, Russell C. Eberhart and James Kennedy
2011, Larry J. Eshelman
2010, David E. Goldberg, John Greffenstette
2009, N/A
2008, David B. Fogel
2007, N/A
2006, N/A
2005, Kenneth De Jong
2004, Richard Friedberg
2003, John H. Holland
2002, Ingo Rechenberg, Hans-Paul Schwefel
2001, Michael Conrad
2000, George E.P. Box
1999, Alex S. Fraser
1998, Lawrence J. Fogel
2014 CISEvolutionary Computation Pioneer Award
Motion:Bestow the 2014 IEEE CIS Evolutionary Computation Pioneer Award to George Burgin
for
Pioneering applications of evolutionary programming in aerospace engineering
2014 CISMeritorious Service Award
No recommendation from the Awards’ Committee
2014 CIS Outstanding Early Career Award
Motion: Bestow the 2014 CIS Outstanding Early Career Award to Haibo He
for Contributions to adaptive learning and control, intelligent systems, and smart grid
2014 CIS Outstanding Organization Award
Motion: Bestow the 2014 CIS Outstanding Organization Award to the Honda Research Institute Europe
for
Contributions to the field of computational intelligencein science and innovation
2014 CIS Outstanding Chapter Award
Motion
Bestow the 2014 IEEE CIS Outstanding Chapter Award to the IEEE CIS UKRI Chapter
for Promoting and supporting the dissemination of computational intelligence within the UKRI Section
2014 CIS Outstanding Ph.D. Dissertation Award
Motion: Bestow the 2014 CIS Outstanding Ph.D. Dissertation award to Jane Jing Liang
for her dissertation entitled
Novel and robust dynamic topologies for particle swarm optimizers
2014 CISTNNLS Outstanding Paper Award
Motion:Bestow the 2014 IEEE TNNLS Outstanding Paper Award to Long Cheng, Zeng-Guang Hou, Yingzi Lin, Min Tan, Wenjun Chris Zhang, Fangxiang Wu
for their paper entitled
"Recurrent Neural Network for Non-Smooth Convex Optimization Problems with Application to the Identification of Genetic Regulatory Networks", published in vol. 22, no. 5, pp. 714-726, May 2011.
2014 CISTFS Outstanding Paper Award
Motion:
Bestow the 2014 IEEE TFS Outstanding Paper Award to Dongrui Wu and Jerry M. Mendel
for the paper entitled
"On the Continuity of Type-1 and Interval Type-2 Fuzzy Logic Systems” IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, vol. 19, no. 1, pp. 179-192, 2011
2014 CISTEC Outstanding Paper Award
No recommendation from the Awards’ Committee
2014 CIST CIAIG Outstanding Paper Award
No recommendation from the Awards’ Committee
2014 CISTAMD Outstanding Paper Award
No recommendation from the Awards’ Committee
2014 CISCIM Outstanding Paper Award
No recommendation from the Awards’ Committee
CIS Awards (statistics)
NOMINATION Histogram
Proposed Changes for Nomination Process
Awards Committee feels nominations are insufficient. Create under the VP for Tech Activities a Professional Advancement Committee.
This committee will orchestrate and seek nominations from the CIS community and TCs for the awards. It will announce and receive all award nominations, check requirements, dialogue with nominators to achieve high quality nominations.
Nomination for journals are easier. The Editorial Boards of all Transactions/Magazine should appoint one of its members as the “instigator” for outstanding paper nominations.
CIS AWARDS
Analysis:– CIS went from a large single awards committee to the other extreme of 14
sub and 1 “super committee” (~ 60 people)– Many members in several committees, and with elections every two years,
this size is not supported by the community.– Enormous management overhead: Chair initiates the process and spends
90% of time setting things up, sending emails, not discussing the nominations
– Nomination quality varies greatly (nobody checks them nor dialogues with nominator)
– Not enough information in nominations (indicators need to be improved)
CIS AWARDS- Proposed Changes
Three types of awards: • Area Specific (Pioneers, v. prestigious) • CIS wide (NN+FS+EC)• Journal Awards
Each should have a different organization
CIS AWARDS- Proposed Changes
Pioneer Award sub committees --- as is
CIS Wide – a single sub committee will handle all the Awards. Create a Sub-committee chair.Chair of the subcommittee will coordinate communication and set up meetings. Awards Chair will conduct live meetings
Journal Awards – Each EiC will handle the Awards, and coordinate communication and set up the meetings
Award Chair will conduct live meetings
Nomination/Award Process Changes
The awards chair and committee realizes the need for a change in the award nomination process and award management to improve pool of candidates and efficacy.
Motion:
Endorse the need for a change in the nomination/award processes that would mitigate the issues discussed, and request from EXCOM action on this issue.
ENDEXECUTIVE SESSION