IEEE CISAWARDS COMMITTEE

REPORT

June 20, 2013

Cancun, Mexico

CALLEXECUTIVE SESSION

Awards Committee

Jose Principe (chair)

Piero Bonissone

Bernadette Bouchon-Meunier

Yaochu Jin

Derong Liu

CIS Awards

1- Neural Networks Pioneer Award

2- Fuzzy Systems Pioneer Award

3- Evolutionary Computation Pioneer Award

4- Meritorious Service Award

5- Outstanding Early Career Award

6- Outstanding Chapter Award

7- Outstanding PhD Dissertation Award

8- Outstanding Organization Award

CIS Awards

Outstanding Transaction Paper Award

9- T. Neural Networks and Learning Systems

10- T. Fuzzy Systems

11- T. Evolutionary Computation

12- T. Autonomous Mental Development

13- T. Computational Intelligence and AI in Games

14- Computational Intelligence Magazine

CIS Awards

Big thanks to all the committee members

The motions I will present were all elaborated and passed by the respective subcommittees and unanimously approved by the award committee.

NN Pioneer Award Recipients2013, Frank Lewis2012, N/A2011, Jose C. Principe2010, Vladimir Vapnik2009, John G. Taylor2008, Gail Carpenter, Kumpati S. Narendra2007, Michael Jordan2006, Donald Specht, Erkki Oja2005, Carver Mead2004, Andrew Barto2003, Kunihiko Fukushima2002, Terrence Sejnowski2001, David E. Rumelhart, James L. McCelland2000, Leon Chua1999, Robert Hecht-Nielsen1998, Geoffrey E. Hinton1997, John J. Hopfield1996, N/A1995, Michael A. Arbib, Nils J. Nilsson, Paul J. Werbos1994, Christoph von der Malsburg1993, Thomas M. Cover1992, Shun-Ichi Amari, Walter Freeman, David Willshaw1991, Bernard Widrow, Stephen Grossberg, Teuvo Kohonen

2014 CISNeural Networks Pioneer Award

Motion 1:Bestow the 2014 IEEE CIS Neural Networks Pioneer Award to: Yann LeCun

For

Significant contributions to convolutional neural networks and their application to pattern recognition and computer vision

Motion 2:

Bestow the 2014 IEEE CIS Neural Networks Pioneer Award to: Jun Wang

For

Significant contributions to neurodynamic optimization and its engineering applications

FS Pioneer Award Recipients

2013, Wytold Pedrycz

2012, Piero P. Bonissone, Abraham Kandel

2011, Hans J. Zimmermann

2010, Hideo Tanaka

2009, Tomohiro Takagi, Enrique H. Ruspini

2008, Jerry M. Mendel, Takeshi Yamakawa

2007, Jim Keller, George Klir

2006, Janusz Kacprzyk

2005, Enric Trillas

2004, Ronald Yager

2003, Ebrahim Mamdani

2002, Didier Dubois, Henri Prade

2001, James Bezdek

2000, Lotfi Zadeh, Michio Sugeno

2014 CISFuzzy Systems Pioneer Award

Motion:Bestow the 2014 IEEE CIS Fuzzy Systems Pioneer Award to Masaharu Mizumoto

for

Significant contributions to the foundations of fuzzy set theory  

EC Pioneer Award Recipients

2013, Xin Yao

2012, J.David Schaffer, Russell C. Eberhart and James Kennedy

2011, Larry J. Eshelman

2010, David E. Goldberg, John Greffenstette

2009, N/A

2008, David B. Fogel

2007, N/A

2006, N/A

2005, Kenneth De Jong

2004, Richard Friedberg

2003, John H. Holland

2002, Ingo Rechenberg, Hans-Paul Schwefel

2001, Michael Conrad

2000, George E.P. Box

1999, Alex S. Fraser

1998, Lawrence J. Fogel

2014 CISEvolutionary Computation Pioneer Award

Motion:Bestow the 2014 IEEE CIS Evolutionary Computation Pioneer Award to George Burgin

for

Pioneering applications of evolutionary programming in aerospace engineering

2014 CISMeritorious Service Award

No recommendation from the Awards’ Committee

2014 CIS Outstanding Early Career Award

Motion: Bestow the 2014 CIS Outstanding Early Career Award to Haibo He

for Contributions to adaptive learning and control, intelligent systems, and smart grid

2014 CIS Outstanding Organization Award

Motion: Bestow the 2014 CIS Outstanding Organization Award to the Honda Research Institute Europe

for

Contributions to the field of computational intelligencein science and innovation

2014 CIS Outstanding Chapter Award

Motion

Bestow the 2014 IEEE CIS Outstanding Chapter Award to the IEEE CIS UKRI Chapter

for Promoting and supporting the dissemination of computational intelligence within the UKRI Section

2014 CIS Outstanding Ph.D. Dissertation Award

Motion: Bestow the 2014 CIS Outstanding Ph.D. Dissertation award to Jane Jing Liang

for her dissertation entitled

Novel and robust dynamic topologies for particle swarm optimizers

2014 CISTNNLS Outstanding Paper Award

Motion:Bestow the 2014 IEEE TNNLS Outstanding Paper Award to Long Cheng, Zeng-Guang Hou, Yingzi Lin, Min Tan, Wenjun Chris Zhang, Fangxiang Wu

for their paper entitled

"Recurrent Neural Network for Non-Smooth Convex Optimization Problems with Application to the Identification of Genetic Regulatory Networks", published in vol. 22, no. 5, pp. 714-726, May 2011.

2014 CISTFS Outstanding Paper Award

Motion:

Bestow the 2014 IEEE TFS Outstanding Paper Award to Dongrui Wu and Jerry M. Mendel

for the paper entitled

"On the Continuity of Type-1 and Interval Type-2 Fuzzy Logic Systems” IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, vol. 19, no. 1, pp. 179-192, 2011

2014 CISTEC Outstanding Paper Award

No recommendation from the Awards’ Committee

2014 CIST CIAIG Outstanding Paper Award

No recommendation from the Awards’ Committee

2014 CISTAMD Outstanding Paper Award

No recommendation from the Awards’ Committee

2014 CISCIM Outstanding Paper Award

No recommendation from the Awards’ Committee

CIS Awards (statistics)

NOMINATION Histogram

Proposed Changes for Nomination Process

Awards Committee feels nominations are insufficient. Create under the VP for Tech Activities a Professional Advancement Committee.

This committee will orchestrate and seek nominations from the CIS community and TCs for the awards. It will announce and receive all award nominations, check requirements, dialogue with nominators to achieve high quality nominations.

Nomination for journals are easier. The Editorial Boards of all Transactions/Magazine should appoint one of its members as the “instigator” for outstanding paper nominations.

CIS AWARDS

Analysis:– CIS went from a large single awards committee to the other extreme of 14

sub and 1 “super committee” (~ 60 people)– Many members in several committees, and with elections every two years,

this size is not supported by the community.– Enormous management overhead: Chair initiates the process and spends

90% of time setting things up, sending emails, not discussing the nominations

– Nomination quality varies greatly (nobody checks them nor dialogues with nominator)

– Not enough information in nominations (indicators need to be improved)

CIS AWARDS- Proposed Changes

Three types of awards: • Area Specific (Pioneers, v. prestigious) • CIS wide (NN+FS+EC)• Journal Awards

Each should have a different organization

CIS AWARDS- Proposed Changes

Pioneer Award sub committees --- as is

CIS Wide – a single sub committee will handle all the Awards. Create a Sub-committee chair.Chair of the subcommittee will coordinate communication and set up meetings. Awards Chair will conduct live meetings

Journal Awards – Each EiC will handle the Awards, and coordinate communication and set up the meetings

Award Chair will conduct live meetings

Nomination/Award Process Changes

The awards chair and committee realizes the need for a change in the award nomination process and award management to improve pool of candidates and efficacy.

Motion:

Endorse the need for a change in the nomination/award processes that would mitigate the issues discussed, and request from EXCOM action on this issue.

ENDEXECUTIVE SESSION