Prof. Witold Pedrycz (Life Fellow, IEEE)

University of Alberta, Canada

Biography

Witold Pedrycz (Life Fellow, IEEE) is a Professor and the Canada Research Chair (CRC) of computational intelligence with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada. He is also with the Systems Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland. He is a Foreign Member of the Polish Academy of Sciences and a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. He was a recipient of several awards, including Norbert Wiener Award from the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society, the IEEE Canada Computer Engineering Medal, the Cajastur Prize for Soft Computing from the European Centre for Soft Computing, the Killam Prize, the Fuzzy Pioneer Award from the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, and the 2019 Meritorious Service Award from the IEEE Systems Man and Cybernetics Society. He is an Editor-in-Chief of Information Sciences and WIREs Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery (Wiley) and a Co-Editor-in-Chief of Granular Computing (Springer) and Journal of Data Information and Management (Springer).(Based on document published on 5 January 2023).