CURRICULUM VITAE AND LIST OF PUBLICATIONS Academician Janusz Kacprzyk. Birth date: July 12, 1947 Professor, Ph.D, D.Sc Fellow of IEEE, IFSA Systems Research Institute Born, raised and lived Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw, Poland ul. Newelska 6 Married, one child 01-447 Warsaw Poland Phone: +(48)(22) 3810275 - office Fax: +(48)(22) 3810103 - office Languages: (fluent): English, Russian, German, Italian, (good): French, Spanish E-mail: [email protected] WWW: http://www.ibspan.waw.pl/~kacprzyk Google: kacprzyk Current employment: Professor (full time), Systems Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland; 1970 to present. Professor (part time), WIT – Warsaw School of Appied Information Technology and Management, Warsaw, Poland, 1998 - to present. Professor (part time), Industrial Institute of Automation and Measurements (PIAP), Warsaw, Poland, 2007 – to present. Professor (part time), Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Cracow University of Technology, Cracow, Poland, 2010 – to present. Current functions: Chairman of the Provosts’ Council, Department IV of Engineering Sciences, Polish Academy of Sciences: Supervising and evaluating 13 research institutes and 21 national scientific committees in the area of engineering sciences Member, Presidium of the Polish Academy of Sciences Member, Central Testimonial Commission of the Republic of Poland Head of Laboratory of Intelligent Systems, Systems Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland Memberships of Academies: Full member, Polish Academy of Sciences, since 2010 (Member correspondent since 2002). Foreign member, Spanish Royal Academy of Economic and Financial Sciences (RACEF), since 2007. Foreign member, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, since 2013. Honorary professorship and functions: Honorary External Professor, Department of Mathematics, Yli Normal University, Yining City, Xinjiang City, Xinjiang, P.R. of China, since 2006. Honorary Senior Member, Polish Society for Measurement, Automatic Control and Robotics (POLSPAR), since 2014 Visiting professorship positions: - Presently: Visiting Scientist, RIKEN Brain Research Institute, Wako, Tokyo, Japan, since 2006. 1 Visiting Professor, Department of Computer Science, Tijuana Institute of Technology, Tijuana, BC, Mexico, since 2006. - Previous Visiting Professor, School of Science and Technology, Nottigham Trent University, Nottigham, UK, 2003 – 2006. Visiting Professor, Department of Management and Computer Sciences, University of Trento, 38100 Trento, Italy, Spring semester, 1994. Visiting Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, NC 29223, USA, Spring semester 1988. Visiting Professor, Department of Computer Science, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37916, USA, Spring semester, 1986. Visiting Professor, Hagan School of Business, Iona College, New Rochelle, NY 10801, USA, 1981 – 1983. Fellowships: Fellow, IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers), since 2006. Fellow, IFSA (International Fuzzy Systems Association), since 1997. Pioneer and similar awards: WAC 2014 Lifetime Achievement Award in Soft Computing, WAC (World Automation Congress), 2014. IFSA 2013 Award for outstanding academic contributions and life time achievement in the field of fuzzy systems, and a continuous support of IFSA, International Fuzzy Systems Association, 2013. Medal of the Polish Neural Network Society for exceptional contributions to the advancement of computational intelligence in Poland, 2010 Pioneer Award for Outstanding Contributions to Granular Computing and Computing with Words, Silicon Valley IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Computational Intelligence Society) Chapter, 2007. Pioneer Award, IEEE CIS for pioneering works on multistage fuzzy control, in particular fuzzy dynamic programming, 2006. 6-th Kaufmann Award and Gold Medal for pioneering works on the use of fuzzy logic in economics and management, 2006. AutoSoft Lifetime Achievement Award in recognition of pioneering and outstanding contributions to the field of soft computing, 2000. Current functions in national and international organizations: President, Polish Operational and Systems Research Society (PTBOiS), since 2007. Past President, International Fuzzy Systems Association (IFSA), 2009-2011. Member, Adcom (Administrative Committee), IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, since 2010. Membership in national and international organizations: - International IEEE – Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers INFORMS – through the Polish NMO – POSRS IFAC – through the Polish NMOO - POLSPAR ECCAI – through the Polish NMO – PSSI EUSFLAT – European Sociaty for Fuzzy Logic and Technology - National Polish Association for Artificial Intelligence (PSSI) – a member of ECCAI, since the founding in 2010 Polish Neural Network Society(PSSN) Polish Operational and Systems Research Society(POSR), President Polish Society for Measurement, Automatic Control and Robitics (POLSPAR) Polish Society for Knowledge Management (PSZW) 2 Administrative functions held: At the national level: Chairman of the Provosts’ Council, Department IV of Technical Sciences, Polish Academy of Sciences: Supervising and evaluating 13 research institutes and 21 national scientific committees, since 2010 Main coordinator for the TINFO Research Network, Since 2008. Coordinator of the TISTER Research Network, since 2009. Coordinator of MIR (Machine Intelligence Research) Labs Poland, since 2009. At the institutional level: Head of Intelligent Systems Laboratory, Systems Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences, since 1988. Deputy Director for Research, Systems Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences, 1998 – 2006. Head of Doctoral Studies, Systems Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences, 1992-1998. Education and degrees earned: 1965 - 1970; Studies at the Department of Electronics, Warsaw University of Technology in Warsaw, Poland. Major field: computer science and automatic control. M.S. in computer science and automatic control received in October, 1970 from the Warsaw University of Technology. Ph.D. with distinction in systems analysis received in October, 1977 from the Systems Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw, Poland D.Sc. (habilitation) in computer science in 1990 from the Systems Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences. Full Professor, received in 1997, awarded by President of the Republic of Poland. Other honors and Awards: 1. Group Award of Scientific Secretary of the Polish Academy of Sciences, for computational algorithms for nonlinear programming, 1972. 2. Distinction for the Ph. D. dissertation from the Systems Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland, 1977. 3. Medal from the University of Liege, Belgium, 1981. 4. Award of Department IV (Technical Sciences) of the Polish Academy of Sciences for the book Multistage Decision Making under Fuzziness, Verlag TÜV Rheinland, Cologne, 1984. 5. Award of Scientific Secretary of the Polish Academy of Sciences for the book Fuzzy Sets in Systems Analysis (in Polish), PWN, Warsaw, 1987. 6. Medal of the National Education, 2007. 7. Statue of SMIA – Seciedad Mexicana de Inteligencia Artificial, 2011. Member of Scientific Councils, Advisory Boards and Committees: • Systems Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences, • Institute for Biocybernetics and Biomedical Engineering, Polish Academy of Sciences, Polish Academy of Sciences – Deputy Head • Institute of Computer Science, Polish Academy of Sciences • Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Cracow University of Technology, Cracow, Poland • Department of Informtics, WIT – Warsaw School of Information Technology, Warsaw, Poland. • IMM – Institute of Mathematical Machines, Warsaw, Poland. • PIAP – Industrial Institute of Automation and Measurements, Warsaw, Poland • ICM – Interdisciplinary Centre for Mathematical and Computational Modelling, University of Warsaw, Poland. • European Centre of Soft Computing, Mieres, Spain 3 • External Advisory Board, Centre of Excellence in Computational Intelligence, Wellington Institute of Technology, Wellington, New Zealand, • External Advisory Board, KEDRI - Knowledge Engineering and Discovery Research Institute, Auckland University of Ttechnology, Auckland, New Zealand. • Committee for Automation and Robotics, Polish Academy of Sciences. • Committee for Computer Science, Polish Academy of Sciences. Experience in the evaluation of foreign research and academic institutions: Member of the foreign evaluation commission, Department of Computer Science, Alpen-Adria University, Klagnefurt, Austria, 2009-2010. Member of the foreign evaluation commission, Department of Computer Science, University of Montpellier, France, 2011. Member of International Program Committees at conferences: more than 300 Member of International Editorial Boards of journals: more than 50 Editor in chief of journals: 2 Editor in chief of book series at Springer: Studies in Computational Intelligence http://www.springer.com/series/7092 Intelligent Systems Reference Library http://www.springer.com/series/8578 Briefs in Computational Intelligence http://www.springer.com/series/10618 Studies in Big Data: http://www.springer.com/series/11970 Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing http://www.springer.com/series/11156 Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing http://www.springer.com/series/2941 Studies in Systems, Decision and Control: http://www.springer.com/series/13304