Career
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 Very-large-scale integration circuits.
He also has authored or co-authored three books, including the 1992 PWS text Introduction to Artificial Neural Systems, co-edited the 1994 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Press volume Computational Intelligence: Imitating Life, the 2000 Massachusetts Institute of Technology 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.
From 1998 to 2003 he was the Editor-in-Chief of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Transactions on Neural Networks. He is an Associate Editor of Neurocomputing, Schedae Informaticae, the International Journal of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, Advisory Editor of the International Journal of Information Technology and Intelligent Computing, and Editor of the Springer Natural Computing book series.
He has served the profession and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in various elected capacities, including as President of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Computational Intelligence Society in 2004-2005.
He has been member and Chair of various Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Commonwealth of Independent States and Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Technical Assistance Board committees, including the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Technical Assistance Board Periodicals Committee and Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Periodicals Review Committee. He was Chair of the Plenary Symposium on Critical and Emerging Issues in Computational Intelligence held at the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers WCCI in Orlando, Florida, and was the Founding Chair of the NNC Neural Networks Technical Committee. He is also on the editorial board of the Journal of Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing Research (JAISCR) and two World Scientific journals: the International Journal of Neural Systems(IJNS) and the International Journal of Computational Intelligence and Applications (IJCIA).
He is a Distinguished Speaker of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Commonwealth of Independent States and an Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Fellow.
In 2003 he was conferred the Title of National Professor by the President of Poland. In 2004 and 2006, respectively, he received Honorary Professorships from Hebei University, and from the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, both in China.