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Prof. Dr. Jacek M. Zurada

 

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Prof. Dr. Jacek M. Zurada

Visiting Professor at IU

 

Academic Career
  • PhD, Electrical Engineering, Technical University of Gdansk, Poland, 1975
  • MS, Electrical Engineering, Technical University of Gdansk, Poland, 1968
Professional Career

Since 1989 Jacek M. Zurada has been a Professor, and since 1993 a distinguished Samuel T. Fife Professor with the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of Louisville, Kentucky. He was Department Chair from 2004 to 2006.

He has held visiting appointments at Princeton, Northeastern, Auburn, and at foreign universities in Australia, Chile, China, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Italy, Japan, Poland, Singapore, Spain, South Africa and Taiwan. He has delivered numerous invited and plenary conference presentations and seminars throughout the world. He has served the profession and the IEEE in various elected capacities, including as President of IEEE Computational Intelligence Society in 2004-05.

Dr. Zurada has received a number of awards for distinction in research, teaching, and service. In addition to several best paper awards, his honors include the 1993 Presidential Award for Research, Scholarship and Creative Activity, 1997 Polish Ministry of National Education Award, 1999 IEEE Circuits and Systems Society Golden Jubilee Medal, and the 2001 Presidential Distinguished Service Award for Service to the Profession. He is a Distinguished Speaker of IEEE CIS and IEEE Fellow.

In 2003 he was conferred the Title of National Professor by the President of Poland. In 2004 and 2006, respectively, he received Honorary Professorships from Hebei University, and from the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, both in China. Since 2005 he is a Member of the Polish Academy of Sciences, and serves as a Senior Fulbright Specialist in 2006-11.

Research Interests include
  • Neural Networks
  • Computational Intelligence
  • Data Mining
  • Image Processing and VLSI Circuits.

For more research information, visit ci.louisville.edu/zurada/research/.

Publications