Congratulations to the 2022 IEEE Frank Rosenblatt Award Recipient

PAUL JOHN WERBOS

For development of backpropagation and fundamental contributions to reinforcement learning and time series analysis

Among the first researchers to realize the power of bio-inspired learning techniques to train neural networks in real time, Paul John Werbos’ development of backpropagation algorithms provided the backbone of reinforcement and deep learning methods for solving today’s complex tasks. Backpropagation allows training of neural network data online and in real time by using gradients computed backward through the layers of the neural network. His leadership of the Adaptive and Intelligent Systems group at the U.S. National Science Foundation enhanced the ability of countless researchers to contribute to prediction and control of systems ranging from nanorobots to the electric power grid. His work has made possible many advances in areas including electric vehicles and speech, face, and handwriting recognition applications.

An IEEE Fellow, Werbos is program director (retired) with the National Science Foundation, Arlington, Virginia, USA.

Proposal Deadlines for IEEE SSCI 2024 and IEEE CAI 2024

The IEEE Computational Intelligence Society sponsors many conferences each year with varying levels of financial sponsorship. We are currently looking for proposals for both the 2024 IEEE Symposium Series in Computational Intelligence (IEEE SSCI 2024) as well as the 2024 IEEE Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IEEE CAI 2024). The former is a collection of smaller symposia all collocated under one roof. Given SSCI’s in 2021 through 2023 will be held in North America or Asia, we are hopeful that a proposal for IEEE SSCI 2024 could come from another Region. IEEE CAI is a new conference series being arranged with the cooperation of four IEEE Societies including IEEE CIS. The intent of this series is an industry-focused event to highlight broad applications of AI. The first IEEE CAI will be held in June 2023 in Santa Clara, California and we are looking for two IEEE CIS members who would like to run this in 2024.

Proposals for these two conferences should be submitted by 15 May 2022 (hard deadline) to provide sufficient time for review and decision by IEEE CIS Confcom and Adcom. Please inform VP Conferences Marley Vellasco ([email protected]) and Gary Fogel ([email protected]) as Chair of the Confcom Subcommittee on Future Conferences of your intention to provide a proposal or if you would like further information. The process for generating such a proposal can be found on our website.

Student and Early Career Researcher Mentoring Program @ WCCI2022

Following successful iterations of the IEEE CIS Student and Early Career Researcher Mentoring Program in previous years and over 100 alumni, in 2022, the program is back "bigger and better" than ever, at WCCI 2022 in Padua, Italy.

We are hoping for an in-person mentoring program, matching student and early-career lead authors to experienced academics and leaders in the scientific community. Fostering interaction, and exchange of ideas, the program will encompass one-to-one feedback for participants across all three conferences.

Beyond the regular program, highlights for 2022 also include:

• IEEE CIS Transaction Paper Development Workshops (PDWs), led by the IEEE CIS flagship journals in all three communities, IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, and IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems.

• Dedicated Networking Events, offering mentees the opportunity to engage with, and beyond their dedicated mentor, and build their network with other mentees.

Details will become available on the WCCI 2022 web page in early 2022. Looking forward to seeing you in Padua, Italy!

• IEEE TNNLS Special Issue on Explainable Representation Learning-based Intelligent Inspection and Maintenance of Complex Systems (1 April 2022)

• IEEE TNNLS Special Issue on Explainable and Generalizable Deep Learning for Medical Imaging (15 April 2022)

• IEEE TEVC Special Issue on Multi-objective Evolutionary Optimization in Machine Learning (30 April 2022)

• IEEE TAI Special Issue on Physics-Informed Machine Learning (30 April 2022)

• IEEE TEVC Special Issue on Evolutionary Computer Vision (30 April 2022)

• IEEE TCDS Special Issue on Cognitive Learning of Multi-Agent Systems (30 September 2022)

• IEEE TETCI Special Issue on Resource Sustainable Computational and Artificial Intelligence (1 February 2023)

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Conference Calendar

By Marley Vellasco, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and Leandro Minku, University of Birmingham, UK

 

* Denotes a CIS-Sponsored Conference

∆ Denotes a CIS Technical Co-Sponsored Conference

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* 2022 IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence for Financial Engineering and Economics (IEEE CIFEr 2022)

4-5 May 2022

Place: Helsinki, Finland

General Chairs: Michael Kampouridis and Peter Sarlin

Website: http://cifer.risklab.fi/ 

 

∆ International Conference on Intelligent Systems and Computational Intelligence (ICISCI 2022)

10-13 May 2022

Place: Changsha, China

General Chairs: Tingwen Huang and Chunhua Yang

Website: http://www.icisci2022.org/

 

∆ International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Sustainable Engineering Solutions (CISES-2022)

20-21 May 2022

Place: Greater Noida, India

General chair: Rajeev Agrawal

Website: TBA

Website: https://docs2022.github.io/

* 2022 IEEE Conference on Evolving and Adaptive Intelligent Systems (IEEE EAIS 2022)

25-27 May 2022

Place: Lanarca, Cyprus

General Chairs: George Papadopoulos

Website: http://cyprusconferences.org/eais2022/ 

∆ 19th International Conference on Information Processing and Management of Uncertainty in Knowledge-Based Systems (IPMU 2022)

11-15 July 2022

Place: Milan, Italy

General Chair: Davide Ciucci

Website: https://ipmu2022.disco.unimib.it/  

 

* IEEE International Conference on Computational Intelligence & Virtual Environments for Measurement Systems and Applications (IEEE CIVEMSA 2022)

15-17 June 2022

Place: Chemnitz, Germany

General Chairs: Olfa Kanoun and Abdulmotaleb El Saddik

Website: TBA

∆ The Swiss Conference on Data Science (SDS 2022)

23 June 2022

Place: Lucerne, Switzerland

General Chair: Melanie Geiger

Website: https://www.sds2022.ch/ 

* 2022 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (IEEE WCCI 2022)

18-23 July  2022

Place: Padua, Italy

General Chairs: Marco Gori and Alessandro Sperduti

Website: https://wcci2022.org

* 2022 IEEE International Conference on Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (IEEE CIBCB 2022)

15-17 August 2022

Place: Ottawa, Canada

General Co-Chairs: Dan Ashlock

Website: TBA

 

* 2022 IEEE Conference on Games (IEEE CoG 2022)

21-24 August 2022

Place: Beijing, China

General Chairs: Dongbin Zhao and Simon M. Lucas

Website: TBA

 

* 2022 IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning (IEEE ICDL 2022)

12-15 September 2022

Place: London, United Kingdom

General Chairs: Lorenzo Jamone and Yukie Nagai

Website: TBA

 

* 2022 IEEE International Conference on Data Science and Advanced Analytics (IEEE DSAA 2022)

13-16 October 2022

Place: Shenzhen, China

General Chairs: Joshua Huang, Gary Yen and Karoli Skala

Website: TBA

* IEEE Latin-America Conference on Computational Intelligence (IEEE LA-CCI 2022)

23-25 November 2022

Place: Montevideo, Urugay

General Chair: Martin Pedemonte and Hector Cancela

Website: TBA

* 2022 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (IEEE SSCI 2022)

4-7 December 2022

Place: Singapore

General Chairs: Ah-Hwee Tan and Dipti Srinivasan

Website: TBA

∆ 2022 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Cyber-energy Systems (ICAICS 2022)

12-13 October 2022

Place: Beijing, China

General Chairs: Huaguang Zhang and Derong Liu

Website: TBA

* 2023 IEEE Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IEEE CAI 2023)

7-8 June 2023

Place: Santa Clara Valley, USA

General Chairs: Gary Fogel and Piero Bonissone

Website: TBA

 

* 2023 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (IEEE CEC 2023)

2-5 July 2023

Place: Chicago, USA

General Chair: Gui de Souza

Website: TBA

 

* 2023 IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ-IEEE 2023)

13-17 August 2023

Place: Incheon, Korea

General Co-Chairs: Frank Chung-Hoon Rhee and Byung-Jae Choi

Website: TBA

 

* 2023 IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL-EpiRob 2023)

9-11 November 2023

Place: Macau, China

General Chair: Zhijun Li

Website: TBA

* 2023 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (IEEE SSCI 2023)

6-8 December 2023

Place: Mexico City, Mexico

General Chair: Wen Yu

Website: TBA

 

* 2024 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (IEEE WCCI 2024)

30 June – 5 July 2024

Place: Yokohama, Japan

General Chairs: Akira Hirose and Hisao Ishibuchi

Website: TBA