Horia-Nicolai Teodorescu

Professor, Membru Corespondent al Academiei Romane

There are many areas at the border of AI and medicine, biology and economy, where neuro-fuzzy models relate to the dynamic processes in systems. My Ph.D. students and I are investigating how these models can reveal new features of such processes, and how they can be used to create artificial structures that mimic biological, economic, and social behaviors. Knowledge generation and sensing in biological entities is also an issue we are investigating, in relation to the nonlinear dynamics. Among the recent applications we have developed are included intelligent nonlinear dynamic sensors having, beyond a high sensitivity, capabilities of signal processing, data compression, data fusing, or features extraction. An example of such sensors we recently developed is an artificial retina using nonlinear dynamic neurons.

My former students have now positions from senior researcher and group leader at JPL-NASA, to assistant or associate professors in various universities around the world. I have been a recipient of the Innovative Excellence in Teaching, Learning and Technology Award at the Eleventh International Conference on College Teaching and Learning, Jacksonville, Fl., April 2000.

Education

·         MS in Electronic Engineering, “Politehnica” University of Bucharest, 1975

·         Ph.D. in Electronics, Technical University of Iasi, Romania, 1981

Awards and Honors

Correspondent Member of the Romanian Academy, 1993

“Eminent scientist” of Fuzzy Logic Systems Institute, Japan, (Oct. 1993), “in recognition of the prominent contribution of Prof. Horia Teodorescu to fuzzy systems science”

Honorary Professor and Honorary Medal of Escuela de Administraccion de Empresas de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, (Nov. 1993)

Honorary member, Societa Italiana Caos & Complessita, from 1997

Five Gold Medals at various editions of the EUREKA Invention Exhibition, Brussels, Belgium, the last one in November 2001

University and Professional Activities

Senior member, IEEE

Guest Professor, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de) Lausanne, Dept. Electric Engineering, for several periods of time during the last 8 years, including January 1999 and May 1999, Guest Professor, May 1997-August 1997, August –Sept. 1996, May –Sept. 1995, February-May 1994 (Dept. Computer Science; Dept. Electrical Engineering)

Vice-Director, Post-graduate course on Intelligent Interfaces and Systems (the course was held in January-May 1999), Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de) Lausanne, Dept. Electric Engineering

Co-Director Doctoral Course, University of Leon, Spain, Dept. of Economic Sciences, June-July 1996

Int. J. Chaos Theory and Applications

Associate Editor:

            IEEE. Trans. Mans, Systems, Cybernetics (C), 1999

Previously, Co-Editor in Chief of:

Biomedical Fuzzy and Human Sciences Journal (Japan), since 1999

The Journal of Grey Systems  (Pergamon Press, 1996)

International Journal of Knowledge-Based Intelligent Engineering Systems, Australia

Revue Europeene d'Economie et de Gestion (Revista AEDEM), Spain (1996-1998)

Kyungpook National University Institute of Engineering Design Technology Newsletter (IEDT), Korea (1995)

Book Series Co-Editor (with Prof. G. Mesnard) of AMSE Monograph Series A: Artificial Intelligence and Fuzzy Systems, France (1990-1995)

Paper reviewer to more than 10 journals, during the last 10 years

Societies

President, Advanced and Applied Technologies Institute, Lausanne, Switzerland (1996-1999)

Vice-president International Society for Fuzzy Logic in Management and Economy, (SIGEF – Sociedad International de Gestion y Economia Fuzzy) Spain; first elected 1993, reelected: 19 Nov. 1994, until 1998)

Vice-president, Association for Modeling and Simulation in Enterprises, France (since 1996)

President of Romanian Society for Fuzzy Systems (1994-1997)

Member, Committee of the European Association for Economy and Management (AEDEM) – Spain (1992-1999)

Member in the International Scientific Committee of Fuzzy Logic Systems Institute, Iizuka, Japan (since 1992)

Recent Program Committees, Conferences

·        Co-Chairman, Scientific Committee, International Conference on Communications, Signals and Systems, Brno, Czech Republic, 10-12 Sept. 1996

·        Co-Chairman, Scientific Committee, International Conference on Intelligent Technologies in Human-Related Sciences, ITHURS'96. July 5-7, 1996, Leon, Spain

·        Co-Chairman, Scientific Committee, International Symposium on Neuro-Fuzzy Systems, (IEEE Symposium), Lausanne, Switzerland, 1996

·        Co-Chairman, Scientific Committee, International Congress SIGEF’98, Lausanne, Switzerland, Nov. 1998

·        EUFIT Conference, 1999, 1998, 1997 (European Congress on Intelligent Techniques and Soft Computing, Aachen, Germany), Member, Scientific Committee

·        Co-Director, NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Fuzzy Information Organization

·        LSS 2001 - 9th IFAC/IFORS/IMACS/IFIP/ Symposium on Large Scale Systems: Theory And Applications, Bucharest, July 18-20, 2001, member Scientific Committee

·        Computing Anticipatory Systems, CASYS2001, Liege, Belgium, 7-12 August 2000, Member, Scientific Committee

·        IEEE Symposium SCS2001 – Signals, Circuits and Systems, Iasi, Romania, July 10-11, 2001, member, Steering Committee

·        European Control Conference (ECC99), Germany, September 1999, Member, Scientific Committee

·        Member, International Program Committee, IV-th International Conference on Soft Computing,  IIZUKA'96, Sept. 2-5, 1996, Iizuka, Japan

·        Member, International Program Committee, V-th International Conference on Soft Computing,  IIZUKA'98, Sept. 2-5, 1996, Iizuka, Japan

H.N. Teodorescu, P. Melo Pinto, T. Fukuda (Eds.), Organization of Fuzzy Information. NATO Series in Advanced Research. IOS Press. 2002 (to appear)

H.N. Teodorescu, L. Jain, M. Jain (Eds.): Computational Intelligence in Medicine. 2002, Springer Verlag, Germany.

H.N. Teodorescu, L. Jain, A. Kandel (Eds.): Hardware Implementation of Intelligent Systems, Physica Verlag / Springer Verlag, 2001, ISBN 3-7908-1399-0

H.N. Teodorescu, and L.C. Jain (Eds.): Intelligent Technologies in Rehabilitation. CRC Press, Florida, USA, 520 pp. +  xvi, December 2000  ISBN: 0849301408

H.N. Teodorescu, D. Mlynek, A. Kandel, H.J. Zimmermann (Eds.): Intelligent Systems and Interfaces. 480pp., ISBN: 079237763X, Kluwer Academic Press, Boston. 2000

H.N. Teodorescu, A. Kandel, and L.C. Jain (Eds.): Soft-Computing in Human-Related Sciences. CRC Press, Florida, USA, 381 pp. + 28 xxvii (ISBN 0-8493-1635-9), May 1999

H.N. Teodorescu, A. Kandel, and L.C. Jain (Eds.): Fuzzy and Neuro-fuzzy Systems in Medicine. CRC Press, Florida, USA, 394 pp.+ xxviii,  (ISBN0-8493-9806-1), 1998

H.N. Teodorescu, J. Gil Aluja, D. Mlynek (Eds.): Uncertainty Logic: Applications in Economics and Management. Proceedings SIGEF’98 Conference, Lausanne. Swiss Institute of Technology, Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland, November 1998

Editor of journal special issues

H.N. Teodorescu, T. Yamakawa (Eds.): Special Issue on Applications of Chaotic Systems: An Emerging Field. International J. of Intelligent Systems, vol. 12, no. 4, (April 1997), Wiley

Book Chapters

H. N. Teodorescu: Interrelationship, Communication, Semiotics, and Artificial Consciousness. In: Kitamura, T. (Ed.): What Should be Computed to Understand and Model Brain Functions? FLSI Book Series, vol. 3, World Scientific 2000 (primita 2001, neraportata in 2000)

Recent Journal Papers

HN Teodorescu et al: Fuzzy methods in tremor assessment, prediction and rehabilitation. Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (Elsevier), Vol. 21, Nr. 1-3, January-March 2001, pp. 107-130