Prof. Witold Pedrycz is a Professor and Canada Research Chair (CRC) in Computational Intelligence in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada. He is also involved with the Systems Research Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland. He’s been a Fellow of the Institute of Electronic and Electrical Engineers (IEEE) since 1998, and is one of its highest-ranked members. He was the recipient of the Norbert Wiener Award in 2007, the highest award available in the system and control theories area, for his outstanding contributions in computational intelligence, fuzzy modeling and data science. What’s more, he is a recipient of many other honours and awards, including IEEE Canada Computer Engineering Medal, Cajastur Prize for Soft Computing from the European Centre for Soft Computing, Killam Prize, and a Fuzzy Pioneer Award from the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society. In 2009, Prof. Pedrycz was elected a Foreign Member of the Polish Academy of Sciences and, in 2012, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.

Born in Poland, Prof. Pedrycz received his Ph.D. from the Silesian University of Technology, Gliwice, Poland in 1980. He’s been working at the University of Alberta as a faculty member and researcher since 1998; and is a Professional Engineer registered in the province of Alberta. Prof. Pedrycz is currently the Director of the Laboratory of Computational Intelligence at the University of Alberta, where he carries out an intensive research program supervising numerous Ph.D students, postdoctoral fellows, visiting professors and visiting Ph.D. students. The laboratory has established intensive and fruitful collaboration with various leading research laboratories across the world, including China, Italy, Japan, Poland, Brazil, Russia, and the U.K. Furthermore, Prof. Pedrycz is vigorously involved in editorial activities. He is Editor-in-Chief of Information Sciences, and serves on the Advisory Board of IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems.

Prof. Pedrycz’s main research areas involve Computational Intelligence, fuzzy modeling and knowledge discovery, artificial intelligence and genetic algorithm; in particular, he’s made significant contributions in intelligence learning, and knowledge mining and expression. He has published numerous papers in this area; the current h-index is 105 (based on Google Scholar). He is also the author of 20 research monographs and edited volumes covering timely and central areas of Computational Intelligence, data analytics, pattern recognition and Software Engineering, with research outcomes widely recognized and critically acclaimed by peers across the world.