Jacek M. Zurada

Who is Jacek M. Zurada?

Jacek M. Zurada received his MS and PhD degrees in electrical engineering from the Technical University of Gdansk, Poland in 1968 and 1975, respectively. Since 1989 he 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 published 280 journal and conference papers in the areas of neural networks, computational intelligence, data mining, image processing and VLSI circuits. He also has authored or co-authored three books, including the 1992 PWS text Introduction to Artificial Neural Systems, co-edited the 1994 IEEE Press volume Computational Intelligence: Imitating Life, the 2000 MIT Press volume Knowledge-Based Neurocomputing, and co-edited four 2006 volumes in Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science. 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.