China University of Petroleum (East China) conferred Honorary Professorship on Prof. Moncef Gabbouj on Jun. 9, 2023. At the ceremony, Prof. Wei Baojun, Dean of the School of Science at China University of Petroleum (East China), has awarded an Honorary Professor's Certificate to Academician Witold Pedrycz. We appreciate the contributions made by Academician Witold Pedrycz to our international cooperation and exchange. We look forward to both sides jointly seeking new ideas and expanding new avenues in future academic research and scientific research cooperation.
Followed this was an acceptance speech by Prof. Witold Pedrycz. In his speech, Prof. Witold Pedrycz expressed his great honor to be awarded the honorary professor of China University of Petroleum (East China) and will actively carry out cooperation and exchanges between the two sides in the future. During his visit to the university, Academician Witold Pedrycz also attended the Academic Forum on Fundamentals of Mathematics and Physics and Artificial Intelligence, giving a keynote speech titled "Credibility of Machine Learning Architecture: Designing Self Consciousness Mechanisms".
Witold Pedrycz (IEEE Life Fellow) is Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada. He is also with the Systems Research Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland. Dr. Pedrycz is a foreign member of the Polish Academy of Sciences and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. He is a recipient of several awards including Norbert Wiener award from the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society, IEEE Canada Computer Engineering Medal, a Cajastur Prize for Soft Computing from the European Centre for Soft Computing, a Killam Prize, a Fuzzy Pioneer Award from the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, and 2019 Meritorious Service Award from the IEEE Systems Man and Cybernetics Society. His main research directions involve Computational Intelligence, Granular Computing, and Machine Learning, among others. Professor Pedrycz serves as an Editor-in-Chief of Information Sciences, Editor-in-Chief of WIREs Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery (Wiley), and Co-editor-in-Chief of Int. J. of Granular Computing (Springer) and J. of Data Information and Management (Springer).
Prof. Wei Baojun awarded the Honorary Professor Certificate to Academician Witold Pedrycz
[Editor:Tong Gao]