Keynote Speakers
Prof. Witold Pedrycz (IEEE Life Fellow), University of Alberta, Canada
Bio: Dr. 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. Witold Pedrycz has been a member of
numerous program committees of IEEE
conferences in the area of fuzzy sets and
neurocomputing. 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, and a
Fuzzy Pioneer Award from the IEEE
Computational Intelligence Society. His main
research directions involve Computational
Intelligence, fuzzy modeling and Granular
Computing, knowledge discovery and data
mining, fuzzy control, pattern recognition,
knowledge-based neural networks, relational
computing, and Software Engineering. He has
published numerous papers in this area. He
is also an author of 15 research monographs
covering various aspects of Computational
Intelligence, data mining, and Software
Engineering. Dr. Pedrycz is intensively
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 Int. J. of
Granular Computing (Springer). He currently
serves on the Advisory Board of IEEE
Transactions on Fuzzy Systems and is a
member of a number of editorial boards of
other international journals.