Nikola Kasabov

Professor Nikola Kasabov is Life Fellow of IEEE, Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand, Fellow of the INNS College of Fellows, DVF of the Royal Academy of Engineering and the Scottish Informatics and Computing Association. He is the Founding Director of the Knowledge Engineering and Discovery Research Institute (KEDRI), Auckland and Professor at the School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematical Sciences at Auckland University of Technology. Kasabov is a Past President and Governor Board member of the International Neural Network Society (INNS) and the Asia Pacific Neural Network Society (APNNS). He is a member of several technical committees of IEEE Computational Intelligence Society and a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE CIS (2012-2014). He is the EiC of the Springer Series of Bio-/Neurosystems and the Springer Handbook of Bio-/Neuroinformatics and also an Honorary EiC of the Springer journal Evolving Systems. He serves as Associate Editor of Neural Networks, IEEE TrNN, IEEE Tr CDS, Information Science, Applied Soft Computing and other journals. Kasabov holds MSc and PhD from the TU Sofia, Bulgaria. His main research interests are in the areas of neural networks, intelligent information systems, soft computing, bioinformatics, neuroinformatics. He has published more than 700+ publications that include 12 books, 320+ journal papers, 90+ book chapters, 28 patents and numerous conference papers. His work has been highly sited ( http://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=YTa9Dz4AAAAJ&view_op=list_works). He has extensive academic experience at various academic and research organisations in Europe and Asia, including: TU Sofia, University of Essex UK, University of Otago NZ, Advisor Professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Visiting Professor at ETH/University of Zurich and the RGU, UK. Prof. Kasabov has received a number of awards, among them: Doctor Honoris Causa from Obuda University, Hungary; INNS Ada Lovelace Meritorious Service Award; APNNA ‘Outstanding Achievements Award’; INNS Gabor Award for ‘Outstanding contributions to engineering applications of neural networks’; EU Marie Curie Fellowship; Bayer Science Innovation Award; APNNA Excellent Service Award; RSNZ Science and Technology Medal; AUT Medal; Honorary Member of the Bulgarian Academic Society AOKSIT; DAAD Visiting Professorship Germany, Honorary Academic of the University of Auckland NZ, and others. He has supervised to completion 50+ PhD students. More information of Prof. Kasabov can be found on the web site: http://academics.aut.ac.nz/nkasabov.