International Training Workshop on Fuzzy Logic with Applications
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March 20-25, 2017
International Training Workshop
Professor Oscar Castillo holds the Doctor in Science degree (Doctor Habilitatus) in Computer Science from the Polish Academy of Sciences (with the Dissertation “Soft Computing and Fractal Theory for Intelligent Manufacturing”). He is a Professor of Computer Science in the Graduate Division, Tijuana Institute of Technology, Tijuana, Mexico. In addition, he is serving as Research Director of Computer Science and Head of the research group on Hybrid Fuzzy Intelligent Systems. Currently, he is President of HAFSA (Hispanic American Fuzzy Systems Association) and Past President of IFSA (International Fuzzy Systems Association). Prof. Castillo is also Chair of the Mexican Chapter of the Computational Intelligence Society (IEEE). He also belongs to the Technical Committee on Fuzzy Systems of IEEE and to the Task Force on “Extensions to Type-1 Fuzzy Systems”. He is also a member of NAFIPS, IFSA and IEEE. He belongs to the Mexican Research System (SNI Level 3). His research interests are in Type-2 Fuzzy Logic, Fuzzy Control, Neuro-Fuzzy and Genetic-Fuzzy hybrid approaches. He has published over 200 journal papers, 7 authored books, 25 edited books, and 300 papers in conference proceedings. He has been Guest Editor of several successful Special Issues in the past, like in the following journals: Applied Soft Computing, Intelligent Systems, Information Sciences, Non-Linear Studies, Fuzzy Sets and Systems, JAMRIS and Engineering Letters. He is currently Associate Editor of the Information Sciences Journal, Applied Soft Computing Journal, Granular Computing Journal and the IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems. Recently he has been elected IFSA Fellow and MICAI Fellow member in 2015.
Professor Ashoke Deshpande is Founding Chair: Berkeley Initiative in Soft Computing (BISC)-UC Berkeley CA; Guest Faculty: University of California Berkeley; Visiting Professor : University of New South Wales Canberra, Australia and at Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai India ; Adjunct Professor :College of Engineering Pune (COEP) India and NIT Silchar.
Former Deputy Director: National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (NEERI)/CSIR.
Professor Ashok has over 4 decades of R&D experience and has over 120 publications in the Journals of international repute/conferences. In the past, Dr. Ashok was WHO Adviser, Common Wealth Science Council Resource Scientist, World Bank Project Director for the studies on Probabilistic Risk Assessment for Chemical Process industry. He also organized a Workshop as WHO Adviser in 5 countries on Unaccoun- ted for Water Management and also assisted Danish International Development Authority (DANIDA) as a Project Advisor. More importantly, Professor Lotfi Zadeh, the founder of fuzzy logic, after listening to many seminar talks, asked Professor Ashok Deshpande to be the Chair of Berkeley (BISC)-(SIG)-(EMS). He is also guest faculty at the University of California Berkeley and visiting scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, CA.
In 2004, Dr. Ashok was invited by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) as an expert for organizing a Training Program at CDTN, Brazil on Fuzzy logic with applications and again in 2006. Between 2006-13) he organized Training workshop on Fuzzy sets and Fuzzy logic with Applications at the University of Illinois Chicago USA (sponsored by VRI Chicago) UBC Canada, Tribhuvan University Nepal , LTU Sweden, VIT Spain and CSU USA. Dr. Deshpande’s has a passion and mission to propagate the use of fuzzy logic nationally and internationally. At present, his all doctoral students work only on fuzzy logic related topics.
Professor Ashok delivered seminar talks in University of Maryland Baltimore (Dec 2013, University of University in Gyor Dec 2013), Hungary. Ashok was recently (June 2014) invited to deliver seminar talks in Harvard University. In Nov/Dec 2014, in Hope University in Liverpool (UK), University of Aberdeen (UK), University of Newcastle (UK), he also delivered an invited talk on Fuzzy logic in Gynecology in Essen University in Germany.
Professor Ashok Deshpande is deeply interested in Indian classical
Professor Elizabeth Chang is Professor of Logistics and Canberra Fellow at UNSW Canberra at the Australian Defence Force Academy (ADFA).Professor Chang leads the Defence logistics research group at UNSW, targeting the key issues in Logistics ICT, big data management, defence logistics and sustainment, predictive analytics, situation awareness, IoT and cyber-physical systems, trust, security, risk and privacy. In the 2012 edition of MIS Quarterly vol. 36 issue. 4 Special Issues on Business Research, Professor Chang was ranked fifth in the world for researchers in Business Intelligence.
Professor Laszlo Koczy received the M.Sc., M.Phil. and Ph.D. degrees from the Technical University of Budapest (BME) in 1975, 1976 and 1977, respectively; and the (postdoctoral) D.Sc. degree from the Hungarian Academy of Science, all in Electrical/Control Engineering. He spent most of his career at BME until 2001 and from 2002 at SZE. However, he has been a visiting professor at various universities abroad, namely in Australia (ANU, Murdoch and UNSW), Japan (TIT), Korea (POSTECH), Austria (J. Kepler U.), Italy (U. of Trento) and Brazil, China, Finland and Poland for summer schools. He was one of the LIFE Endowed Fuzzy Theory Chair Professors at Tokyo Institute of Technology and advisor to the Laboratory for International Fuzzy Engineering Research in Yokohama. His focus of research interest is fuzzy systems and Computational Intelligence topics (evolutionary algorithms, neural networks), as well as applications. He has published over 370 refereed papers and several text books on the subject. He introduced the concept of rule interpolation in sparse fuzzy models, and applied it successfully to the control of an automatic guided vehicle; further hierarchical interpolative fuzzy systems and fuzzy Hough transform. This latter provided the key technology in the winning vehicle in the 2007 Hungarian Mars Rover Competition. His research interests include applications of CI for telecommunication, transportation, vehicles and mobile robots, control, information retrieval, etc. Among others he had been an Associate Editor of IEEE TFS and he is an Associate Editor of Fuzzy Sets and Systems, Int. J. of Fuzzy Systems, J. of Advanced Computational Intelligence, Mathware and Soft Computing, etc. He was the General Chair of FUZZ-IEEE 2004 in Budapest, and a number of other conferences, co-chair, PC member, etc. at many other scientific events. He served in the International Fuzzy Systems Association as President, and is now Administrative Committee member of IEEE Computational Intelligence Society. At SZE he serves his second term as Dean of Engineering, he chairs the Ph.D. School Council and is one of the sponsors of the Szechenyi Alternative Fuel Engine Vehicles Competition, the National Conference of Mechanical Engineering Students, etc.
Professor Tanmoy Som received the M.Sc., and Ph.D. degrees from the Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi (India) in 1980 and 1986, respectively and has over three decades of R&D experience in the areas of Functional Analysis, fuzzy Set Theory, Soft Set Theory, Image Processing and Optimization Modeling and has over 110 publications in the Journals of national and international repute and conference proceedings and edited book chapters. He has supervised many Ph D scholars and M Tech dissertations. Professor Som has delivered several invited talks at various national and international conferences held within the nation and at Texas A M University, Kingsville (2012), Naresuan University at Chiang Rai, Thailand (2015) and University of California, Berkeley (2016) and also at UGC sponsored refresher courses. He is a life member of Indian and Calcutta mathematical society. Professor Som is also a member of Editorial Board of some reputed national and international journals. He has organized quite a few national conferences, workshop on recent mathematical interests and a school on image processing successfully. He was a recipient of senior research fellowship during his early research career and grants from DST for organizing academic programs. He was a coordinator of Conferences and CEPs in his present institution and currently attached with the QIP cell of the Institute as an active member.
TENTATIVE SPEAKERS
Dr. Swapan Raha is a Professor of Mathematics at the Department of Mathematics and Professorin-charge, Centre for Mathematics Education, VisvaBharati (A Central University). He did his M.Sc. in Applied Mathematics, M.Tech. in Computer Science from the University of Calcutta and Ph.D. in Computer and Communication Science from Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata. His research interest includes Fuzzy Logic and Approximate Reasoning, Design of Similarity Driven Fuzzy System. He has published extensively in international journals of repute.
Dr. Debabrata Datta, is presently working in Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC), Mumbai, India in the capacity of Scientific officer(H+) and Head, Radiological Physics & Advisory Division of Health, Safety & Environment Group. His academic excellences are: (i) M.Sc in Nuclear Physics (Kolkata University), (ii) Master of Philosophy (M. Phil) in High Energy Nuclear Physics from SAHA Institute of Nuclear Physics (SINP), Kolkata, (iii) Graduated in the field of Nuclear Engineering from OCES, Training School of BARC in 1984-85 and (iv) Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Computer Science from Mumbai University in 2000.
His proficiency is on software development using soft computing technique. He has developed a large number of software in the field of radiation protection, safety and uncertainty modeling. Three of his developed software had exported to Turkish Atomic Energy on their request. He has contributed in the field of uncertainty modeling of system. He is well recognized internationally for his enormous diverse contribution in statistical analysis of environmental data, fuzzy mathematics, evidence theory, artificial neural network, wavelets and wavelet neural network. He is the recipient of Eminent Scientist Award, “Millenium Plaques of Honour” from Indian Science Congress Association, in 2010. He has also received the Meritorious awards from National Society of Radiation Physics (NSRP), Association of Medical Physicist’s of India (AMPI).
He has been honoured as Professor in Physical & Mathematical Sciences in Homi Bhabha National Institute (deemed university of Department of Atomic Energy). He has more than 150 publications in peer reviewed international journals, book chapters, international and national conferences to his credit. He is the author of more than twenty application software and some of them are well validated and acceptable by palisade corp. USA. He is one of the developer and contributor of MATLAB Toolbox. He is a recognized PhD guide in Engineering and Sciences disciplines. His research interests are mathematical modeling, statistical analysis of big data, data mining, optimization using evolutionary algorithm, artificial intelligence, bioinformatics, medical informatics, sensitivity and uncertainty modeling of an engineering system. He is the reviewer and editorial board member of many international and National Journals. He is the Life member of many International and National Scientific Organizations.
Dr. Devendra K. Tayal is a Professor in CSE Department at Indira Gandhi Delhi Technical University for Women(erstwhile Known as Indira Gandhi Institute of Technology,GGSIP University, Delhi),Govt. of Delhi. He has been the Head of Department Computer Science & Engg from 2007-2013. He has done M.Tech(Computer Engg.) , Ph.D(Computer Engg.) from Jawaharlal Nehru University. He has a teaching experience of more than 16 years. He did his research in the field of “Fuzzy Relational Databases” and has published approximately 40 research papers in International Journals & a few in Conferences also. He was earlier selected as a Research Engineer in C-DOT(Govt of India) and also a Class-I Gazetted Officer by UPSC(Govt. of India). He is the founder of Research Group “Data Processing & Intelligent Computing” at his University and is currently Supervising PhD to 8 students in the field of Fuzzy Sets, Big Data Analytics, DBMS , Social Network Analysis & Natural Language Processing. He has extensively delivered lectures in Conferences, Seminars and Workshops. He keeps on regularly conducting Conferences & Workshops in his field of interest, in his department and outside also. He has written numerous articles in newspapers and magazines as well. He is a member of International Advisory committee of International Journal of Computer Science, Hongkong and member of International Advisory Board of International Journal of Software Engg & Applications, Korea . Besides this he is referee on Editorial board of various International Journals including the infamous “IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems”
Shri S.N. Bagchi is currently the Design Head, Vibration Engineering Dept, RPL, Noida, India. He had his early education upto B.Sc.level at Allahabad, M.Sc. from BHU and M.Tech. from IIT Delhi.In a carrer spanning over forty years he has been associated with various Industry-Acedamia oriented projects at IIT Kanpur, MNIT, Allahabad , Central Electronics Ltd. (CEL), A Govt of India undertaking, at Shibabad and then joined Resistoflex Group of Industries as Head of Technical Design to work on Vibration & Shock isolation systems for industrial applications. Mr. Bagchi continued to maintain close interaction with many academic institutions where he is invited for guest lectures and visited many leading laboratories for design related interaction and co-ordination. His major field of interest is to work in multi-disciplinary field correlating the Engineering solutions with Physics and Higher Mathematics. One of the favorite topic of specific interest is to study the Mathematical analogy of Molecular Vibration and Machine Vibration. Recently he had been admitted to the Ramanujan Mathematical Society and Indian Mathematical Society (1907).
He visited Insitut fur Mechanik, Kassel University, Germany & National Physical Laboratory, NPL England at Teddington UK for academic interaction and Industries like Socitec International, Sartrouville, Cedex, France & ContiTech-Continental-Luftedersysteme (Air - Spring Division) at Hannover, Germany for the systems design and application of industrial Products.
Dr. Debjani Chakraborty joined IIT Kharagpur as faculty member in 1997. Currently she is Associate Professor in Mathematics department. Before to this she served as a faculty in Vinod Gupta School of Management of IIT Kharagpur from 1997 to 2005. Dr. Chakraborty got B.Sc. (Maths Hons) in 1986 from Calcutta University and M.Sc. (1989) and Ph.D. (1995) from IIT Kharagpur with CSIR fellowship. Her main area of research is Theory and Application of Fuzzy Logic in Optimization. She is recipient of the prestigious Young Scientist Award 1997 in Mathematics from Indian Science Congress Association. She has published one book and published more than 120 papers including 75 research papers in international journals and book chapters. She has also been awarded Young Scientist Scheme from Dept. of Science & Technology, Govt. of India in 1997 as individual scientist. She has already completed 9 research projects (sponsored by CSIR, DST, MHRD) / consultancies (in Bayer India of Mumbai, Coal Mines Pension Scheme of Dhanbad) in her research area. Currently she is also doing 3 project sponsored by DST and MHRD with the collaboration of School of Medical Science and Technology of IIT Kharagpur. Six students have already completed their Ph.D. under her guidance. Presently 96 students are working for their Ph.D. She is in the reviewer panel in many international journals. She is nominated Member of Indian National Science Academy of Science, Allahabad.
