IJCNN 2015Awards and Recognitions

July 15, 2015

INNS AwardsI 2015 INNS Hebb Award

Presented to Prof. Michael Hasselmo in Recognitionof His Outstanding Achievements in theUnderstanding of Biological Learning

I 2014 INNS Gabor AwardPresented to Prof. Lee Giles in Recognition of HisOutstanding Achievements in EngineeringApplications of Neural Networks

I 2015 INNS Gabor AwardPresented to Prof. Donald Wunsch II in Recognitionof His Outstanding Achievements in EngineeringApplications of Neural Networks

I 2015 INNS Young Investigator Award

Presented to Prof. Huanhuan Chen for HisOutstanding Contributions in the Field of NeuralNetworks

IEEE CIS Awards

I 2015 CIS Fuzzy Systems Pioneer Award:

Prof. Nikhil R. PalIndian Statistical Institute, India

IEEE CIS Recognitions: IEEE Fellows for 2015

Acknowledgment of IEEE Fellows for 2015 (CIS members)I Dipankar Dasgupta, Univ. of Memphis, USA

I Stefanos Kollias, National Technical Univ. of Athens, Greece

I Ponnuthurai Suganthan, Nanyang Technological Univ., Singapore

I Johan Suykens, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium

I Michel Verleysen, Universite Catholique de Louvain, Belgium

I Huaguang Zhang, Northeastern University, China

I Cheng-Lin Liu, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

I Geoffrey Webb, Monash University, Australia

I Henry Leung, Univ. of Calgary, Canada

I Rasheek Rifaat, Jacobs Engineering, Canada

I Jyh-Horng Chou, National Kaohsiung Univ. of Applied Sciences, Taiwan

I Dacheng Tao, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia

Recognition of INNS Presidents 2011-12 and 2013-14

I INNS president 2011-2012:

Prof. Ron SunRensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), USA

I INNS president 2013-2014:

Dr. Danil ProkhorovTRINA, Toyota Technical Center, USA

IJCNN 2015 Best Paper Awards

I Best paper award (overall/oral)I Charles Anderson, Minwoo Lee and Daniel ElliottI Faster Reinforcement Learning After Pretraining Deep

Networks to Predict State DynamicsI Colorado State University, USA

I Best student paper award (overall/oral)I Ugo Louche and Liva RalaivolaI From Cutting Planes Algorithms to Compression Schemes and

Active LearningI Aix-Marseille University, France

IJCNN 2015 Best Poster Awards

I Best poster awardI Franck Dufrenois and Jean Charles Noyer, Support Vector

Machines for Outlier Description, University of Calais, France.

I Best student poster awardI S. Matthew Emigh, Evan Kriminger and Jose Principe, Linear

Discriminant Analysis with an Information DivergenceCriterion, University of Florida, USA.

I Best student poster award: Honorable mention

1. Ren Wang, Badong Chen, Nanning Zheng and Jose Principe,A Variable Step-Size Adaptive Algorithm under MaximumCorrentropy Criterion, University of Florida, USA

2. Jonathan Binas, Giacomo Indiveri and Michael Pfeiffer, LocalStructure Helps Learning Optimized Automata in RecurrentNeural Networks, EPFL, Switzerland.

3. Wei Jiang, Hao Zheng, Shuai Nie and Wenju Liu, Multiscalecollaborative speech denoising based on deep stacking network,Chinese Academy of Sciences, China.

IJCNN 2015 Competition Winners

I Weather Time Series Prediction (organized by Hissam Tawfik,Liverpool Hope University, UK)

I Yicun Ouyang and Hujun Yin, Multistep Weather DataForecast Using an Extended Self-Organizing Regressive NeuralNetwork, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK.

IEEE CIS Student Travel Awards

I Sukanya Patil

I Nan Jiang

I Celso de Sousa

I Clayton Smith

I Krishnakant Saboo

I David Oliveira

I Gary Wong

I Jonathan Binas

I Zhongpu Xia

I Son Tran

I Andrea Dal Pozzolo

I Xinyi Le

Student Volunteers from Ireland

I Thank you!

I Go raibh maith agat