My advisor's academic life and career

I will continue introducing my advisor, Dr. John Yen. This time, I would like to focus on his academic life and career. He has been one of the leading researchers in the area of fuzzy logic. He was the Vice President of Publication for IEEE Neural Networks Council. He has published more than 100 technical papers in journals, conference proceedings, and edited volumes. He is an expert in handling uncertainty in intelligent agents and expert systems as well as in general A.I. areas. Journals in which he most often publish are

• IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering,
• IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics,
• AAAI (Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence)'s AI Magazine

• IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems,
• IEEE International Conference on Evolutionary Computation,
• ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management,
• IJCAI (International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence)

1. human-agent collaboration, trust, and learning
2. agent-based modeling of coordination of NGO's for disaster relief
3. agent-based support for emergency medicine
4. extracting knowledge from large-scale social networks

1. Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Programs, College of IST
2. University Professor of Information Sciences and Technology
3. Affiliate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering
4. Director of the Laboratory for Intelligent Agents

1. Fellow of the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers)
2. Chair of IEEE FIPA (Foundations of Intelligent Physical Agents) Working Group on Human Agent Communications
3. A sponsoring co-chair of AAMAS (Autonomous Agents and Multi-agent Systems) 2008
4. A member of ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) Senior Member Committee

Now you figure out why he is so busy and he cannot afford to reply all the emails he receives. He is doing a lot of jobs simultaneously indeed. Let me talk about his biographical history in ascending chronological order. [1986] After receiving his Ph.D. degree in computer science from UC Berkeley in 1986, he began his professional experience as a research scientist with A.I expertise at the Information Sciences Institute of USC (University of Southern California). He played a key role in developing A.I. architectures for knowledge-level integration involving semantic web knowledge representations.

USC Information Sciences Institute

[1989] He became Professor of Computer Science at Texas A&M University in 1989. Also, he was the director of the Center of Fuzzy Logic, Robotics, and Intelligent Systems. [1992] He received Young Investigator Award from the Nation Science Foundation (NSF) in 1992. [1999] He co-authored the textbook "Fuzzy Logic: Intelligence, Control, and Information" published by Prentice Hall in 1999.

Fuzzy Logic: Intelligence, Control, and Information

[2001] He joined the College of Information Sciences and Technology (IST) at Penn State in 2001. [2006] He co-authored the book "Emergent information technologies and enabling policies for counter-terrorism" published by Wiley-IEEE Press in 2006. Control, and Information" published by Prentice Hall in 1999.

Emergent Information Technologies and Enabling Policies for Counter-Terrorism

Currently, no class is being taught by him as he is doing a very important role as Associate Dean.