Biography:Ronald R. Yager

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Short description: American computer scientist
Ronald R. Yager
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Born
New York City , United States
Alma materCity College of New York,
Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn
Known forOrdered weighted averaging aggregation operators, Fuzzy sets
AwardsIEEE Pioneer Award in Fuzzy Systems
Scientific career
FieldsComputational Intelligence
InstitutionsIona College (New York)

Ronald Robert Yager (born New York City) is an American researcher in computational intelligence, decision making under uncertainty and fuzzy logic. He is currently Director of the Machine Intelligence Institute and Professor of Information Systems at Iona College.[1]

Ronald Yager has been an active IEEE Fellow since 1997 for his contributions to the development of the theory of fuzzy logic.[2] He is the Editor and Chief of the International Journal of Intelligent Systems.[3] He has also been invited to serve on the Editorial Boards and Executive Advisory Boards in a number of international journals, which include the following: IEEE Intelligent Systems,[4] IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems,[5] and Fuzzy Sets and Systems.[6]

Biography

Ronald R. Yager was born in the University Heights neighborhood of the Bronx, New York City and attended elementary and DeWitt Clinton High School in the New York City public school system. He got a Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from the City College of New York. He holds a Ph.D. in Systems Science, a degree that he got from the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn (now known as the Polytechnic Institute of New York University). He is currently Director of the Machine Intelligence Institute and Professor of Information Systems at Iona College (New York). He previously taught at the Pennsylvania State University.

Honors and awards

  • Recipient of IEEE Frank Rosenblatt Award, 2016
  • Recipient of 2006 FLINS Gold Medal (Fuzzy Logic and Intelligent Technologies in Nuclear Science)[7]
  • Recipient of IEEE Outstanding Contributor Award Granular Computing, 2006
  • Recipient of Medal of the 50th Anniversary of the Polish Academy of Sciences, 2005
  • IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Fuzzy Systems Pioneer Award, 2004 [8]
  • Fellow of the IEEE for contributions to the development of the theory of fuzzy logic
  • Fellow New York of the Academy of Sciences
  • Fellow of the International Fuzzy Systems Association[9][10]
  • Honoris Causa, Rostov on the Don University, Russia
  • Three-year NASA Fellowship
  • Tau Beta Pi, Eta Kappa Nu, Sigma Xi, Cum Laude

References

  1. Faculty of Iona College's Hagan School of Business: http://www.iona.edu/academic/hagan/academicdepartments/is/faculty.cfm
  2. List of active IEEE Fellows: "IEEE - Fellows: Y". Archived from the original on 2013-01-31. https://web.archive.org/web/20130131034338/http://www.ieee.org/membership_services/membership/fellows/alphabetical/yfellows.html. Retrieved 2013-04-24. 
  3. International Journal of Intelligent Systems (Publisher: Wiley Periodicals): http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1002/%28ISSN%291098-111X
  4. "New Homepage (2022)" (in en-US). https://www.computer.org/. 
  5. Editorial and Advisory Boards of IEEE Transactions on fuzzy Systems: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=05405653
  6. "Editorial board - Fuzzy Sets and Systems | ScienceDirect.com by Elsevier". https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/fuzzy-sets-and-systems/about/editorial-board. 
  7. Ruan, Da (2006) (in en). Applied Artificial Intelligence: Proceedings of the 7th International FLINS Conference, Genova, Italy, 29-31 August 2006. World Scientific. ISBN 978-981-277-411-8. https://books.google.com/books?id=UOIZP1Vp2MQC&dq=flins+gold+medal+yager&pg=PR6. 
  8. IEEE Fuzzy Systems Pioneer Award Recipients: http://ieee-cis.org/awards/recipients/#FuzzySystemsPioneerAward
  9. International Fuzzy Systems Association (IFSA) Fellow Program: http://www.isc.meiji.ac.jp/~ifsatkym/sources/fellows.html
  10. International Fuzzy Systems Association (IFSA): "IFSA". Archived from the original on 2012-03-15. https://web.archive.org/web/20120315200644/http://www.isc.meiji.ac.jp/~ifsatkym/. Retrieved 2012-03-15. 

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