CURRICULUM VITAE

Mohammad Reza Rajati

Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering

University of Southern California

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Los Angeles, CA 90089-2560

email: acugzm@r.postjobfree.com

Academic Education

PhD, Electrical Engineering, Signal and Image Processing Institute, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA. May 2015.

Dissertation Topic: Advances in Linguistic Data-Oriented Uncertainty Modeling, Reasoning, and Intelligent Decision Making, Advisor: Prof. Jerry M. Mendel, Life Fellow, IEEE.

MSc, Mathematical Statistics, Department of Mathematics, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA. August 2015.

Thesis Topic: Evaluation of Sequential Hypotheses Tests for Cross Validation of Learning Models Using Big Data. Advisor: Dr. Jay Bartroff. MSc, Electrical Engineering, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Southern California.

MSc in Mechatronics, Joint Program of Departments of Electrical, Computer, and Mechanical Engineering, K. N. Toosi University of Technology, Tehran-Iran, Sep. 2005- Sep. 2008.

Thesis Topic: Veristic Fuzzy Sets and Their Applications in Fuzzy Logic and Approximate Reasoning Co-advised by: Dr. Hamid Khaloozadeh (Department of Electrical Engineering, K. N. Toosi University of Technology), Prof. Witold Pedrycz, Fellow, IEEE (Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada and Systems Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland).

BSc in Electrical Engineering, Major Option in Systems and Control, Amirkabir University of Technology (Tehran Polytechnic), Tehran-Iran, Sep. 2001-Sep. 2005 Thesis Topic: Theory of Complex Systems and Chaos: Chaos in Neural, Fuzzy and Multi-agent Systems, Advisor: Prof. M. B. Menhaj

Research Interests

1- Machine Learning, Mathematical Statistics, and Statistical Decision Making

• Sequential Hypothesis Testing for Stopping Resampling Methods and Clinical Trials

• Survival Analysis

• Feature Selection with LASSO and Stepwise Methods, Regression, Classification, and Clustering

• Time Series Analysis

• Neural Networks and Deep Learning

• Applications: Energy, Medicine, and Petroleum Engineering 2- Theory of Dynamical Systems & Control

• Optimal, Adaptive, Robust, Digital & Nonlinear Control

• Chaotic Systems and Informational System Theory

• Complex Systems

• Modeling and System Identification

• Estimation, Kalman Filtering, and Prediction

• Game Theory

3-Computational Intelligence

• Advanced Computing with Words, Linguistic Probabilities, and Linguistic Quantifiers,

• Evolutionary Computation

• Multi-Agent Systems and Learning Automata

• Applications to Control and Decision Making Problems 5-Human Cognition and Theory of Mind, Philosophical Aspects of Science Research Experience

Annenberg Fellow, Signal and Image Processing Institute, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Southern California, Advisor: Prof. J. M. Mendel. Research Topics: Advanced Computing with Words, Reasoning with Linguistic Probabilities Research Assistant, Center for Integrated Smart Oil Filed Technologies (CiSoft), University of Southern California, Advisor: Prof. J. M. Mendel. Research Topic: Design of A Decision Maker for Liquid Lift Optimization for Steamed Oil Wells Based on Historical Data Chevron-USC Partnership Program, Development of Support Vector Machines and Variable Selection Methods for Smart Oilfields, Under Supervision of Prof. I. Ershaghi and Dr. A. Popa, Summer 2013.

Stealth Startup, Development of Survival Analysis, Feature Selection and Classification Tools for the Energy Sector May 2015-October 2015.

Research Assistant, Computational Intelligence and Control Research Center, Complex Systems and Chaos: Chaos in Intelligent Systems, Supervisor: Prof. M. B. Menhaj Computer Skills

Scientific Computing: MATLAB, R, Python

Other tools: Microsoft Office, C++, ORCAD, MySQL, etc. Publications

1. Patents

1. Mohammad Reza Rajati, Jerry M. Mendel, Andrei S Popa, Lisa Brenskelle, Linguistic Goal Oriented Decision Making. US Patent Application (jointly filed by Chevron and USC), September 2015.

2. Book Chapters

1. Jerry M Mendel, Mohammad Reza Rajati, “Advanced Computing with Words: Status and Challenges,” in: Janusz Kacprycz, Enric Trillas, Rudolf Seising (eds.), Towards the Future of Fuzzy Logic, Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing, Springer Verlag, 2015.

2. Mohammad Reza Rajati, Hamid Khaloozadeh, Alireza Fatehi, “Self-Referential Reasoning in the Light of Extended Truth Qualification Principle” in: Intelligent Engineering Systems and Computational Cybernetics, Imre J. Rudas, Bela Patkai and J. A. Tenreiro Machado (eds.), Springer Verlag, 2008. 3. Mohammad Reza Rajati, Mohammad Bagher Menhaj, “On Classification of Some Hopfield-Type Learning Rules via Stability Measures,” in: Bernd Reusch (ed.), Computational Intelligence: Theory and Applications, Advances in Soft Computing, Springer Verlag, September 2006.

3. Journal Papers

1. Mohammad Reza Rajati, Jerry M. Mendel, “Novel Weighted Averages versus Normalized Sums in Computing with Words,” Information Sciences, vol. 235, pp. 130- 149, 2013.

2. Mohammad Reza Rajati, Hamid Khaloozadeh, Witold Pedrycz, “Fuzzy Logic and Self- Referential Reasoning: Some New Concepts,” Artificial Intelligence Review, Volume 41, Issue 3, 2012, pp. 331-357

3. Mohammad Reza Rajati, Jerry M. Mendel, “Advanced Computing with Words Using The Generalized Extension Principle for Type-1 Fuzzy Sets.” IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, Volume 22, Issue 5, 2014, pp. 1245-1261. 4. Jerry M. Mendel, Mohammad Reza Rajati, “On Computing Normalized Interval Type- 2 Fuzzy Sets,” IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, Volume 22, Issue 5, pp. 1335-1340. 5. Sajad Jafari, Hamid Reza Abdolmohammadi, Farshad Almasganj, Zahra Shourgashti, Mohammad Reza Rajati, “A new approach to experimental design for function approximation and classification: The twilight method,” Scientia Iranica, Transactions D: Computer Science & Engineering and Electrical Engineering, Volume 19, Issue 6, December 2012, Pages 1731– 1737, Elsevier.

6. S. Rajamand, A. Zahedi, Abdulhamid, S. Jafari, Mohammad Reza Rajati, “A novel low complexity multiuser detector based on modified genetic algorithm in Direct Sequence- Code Division Multiple Access communication systems,” Scientia Iranica, Volume 20, Issue 6, 2015-2023.

7. Sajad Jafari, Hamid Reza Abdolmohammadi, Hosein Eliasi, Mohammad Bagher Menhaj, Mohammad Reza Rajati, “A New Method of Experiment Design for Modeling,” Journal of Applied Sciences 8 (15): 2687-2694, 2008. 8. Jerry M. Mendel, Mohammad Reza Rajati, “On Clarifying Some Notations Used for Type-2 Fuzzy Sets as Well as Some Recommended Notational Changes,” Accepted for publication in Information Sciences, 2016.

9. Jerry M. Mendel, Mohammad Reza Rajati, “Critique of “Footprint of uncertainty for type-2 fuzzy sets” [9],” Information Sciences 308, pp. 1-21, July 2015. 10. Mohammad Reza Rajati, Jerry M. Mendel, Linguistic Goal-Oriented Decision Making

(LGODM) with Rule-Based Systems, Submitted to IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, May 2015.

4. Conference Papers

1. Mohammad Reza Rajati, Jerry M. Mendel, Andrei S. Popa “Fuzzy Decision Support Based on Exact Rule Matching for Liquid Lift Optimization” Proceedings of Society of Petroleum Engineers Western Regional Meeting, Los Angeles, California, April 2015. 2. Mohammad Reza Rajati, Jerry M. Mendel, “Extending Set Functions to Interval Type-2 Fuzzy Sets: Applications to Evidential Reasoning” NAFIPS 2014, Boston, Massachusetts.

3. Mohammad Reza Rajati, Jerry M. Mendel, “Advanced Computing with Words Using Arithmetic Operations on Linguistic Belief Structures” 2013 IEEE Conference on Fuzzy Systems, Hyderabad, India, July 2013.

4. Mohammad Reza Rajati, Jerry M. Mendel, “Modeling Linguistic Probabilities and Linguistic Quantifiers Using Interval Type-2 Fuzzy Sets” Joint IFSA 2013 and NAFIPS 2013, Edmonton, Canada, June 2013.

5. Mohammad Reza Rajati, Jerry M. Mendel, “Solving Zadeh’s Swedes and Italians Challenge Problem” 31st NAFIPS Annual Meeting, Berkeley, CA, USA, 2012 (Best Student Paper Award).

6. Mohammad Reza Rajati, Jerry M. Mendel, “Lower and Upper Probability Calculations Using Compatibility Measures for Solving Zadeh's Challenge Problems”, 2012 IEEE Conference on Fuzzy Systems, Melbourne, Australia (Nominated for the best paper award).

7. Mohammad Reza Rajati, Jerry M. Mendel, Dongrui Wu, “Solving Zadeh’s Magnus Problem on Linguistic Probabilities via Linguistic Weighted Averages” 2011 IEEE Conference on Fuzzy Systems, Taipei, Taiwan, June 2011. 8. Mohammad Reza Rajati, Dongrui Wu, Jerry M. Mendel, “On Solving Zadeh’s Tall Swedes Problem” 2011 World Congress on Soft Computing, San Francisco, California, USA, May 2011.

9. S. Jafari, H. R. Abdolmohammadi, Mohammad Reza Rajati, S. A. S. Salehi, S. Gharibzadeh, “A Modified Artificial Immune System for Data Classification,” 16th Iranian Conference on Electrical Engineering, Tehran, Iran, May 13-15 2008. 10. H. R. Abdolmohammadi, S. Jafari, Mohammad Reza Rajati, “M. E. Nazari, A Bio- inspired Genetic Algorithm Applied to a Constrained Optimization Problem in Power Systems,” First Joint Congress on Fuzzy and Intelligent Systems, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Iran, 29-31 Aug 2007.

11. S. M. Hakimi, S. M. M. Tafreshi, Mohammad Reza Rajati, “Unit-Sizing of A Stand- alone Power System Using Model-free Optimization” IEEE International Conference on Granular Computing, GrC'07, Silicon Valley, California, USA, November 2007. 12. Salman Baromand, Hamid Khaloozadeh, Mohammad Reza Rajati, “Output Covariance Tracking as a Disturbance Rejection Problem,” 46th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC 2007), New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, December 2007. 13. Mohammad Reza Rajati, Hamid Khaloozadeh, Mohammad Mehdi Korjani “Optimal Disturbance Rejection Using Hopfield Neural Networks,” 13th IEEE-IFAC International Conference on Models and Methods in Automation and Robotics, MMAR'07, Szczecin, Poland, August 2007.

14. Salman Baromand, Hamid Khaloozadeh, Mohammad Reza Rajati, “Optimal Covariance Tracking for Linear Discrete-time Stochastic Systems,” 13th IEEE-IFAC International Conference on Models and Methods in Automation and Robotics, MMAR'07, Szczecin, Poland, August 2007.

15. Mohammad Mehdi Korjani, Ahmad Afshar, Mohammad Bagher Menhaj, Mohammad Reza Rajati, “Optimal Model Detection in Distributed Sensor Networks Using Genetic- Fuzzy Clustering” IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, CEC'07, Septemper 2007, Singapore.

16. Mohammad Reza Rajati, Mohammad Bagher Menhaj, Mohammad Mehdi Korjani, Alireza Dehestani, “Exponential Recurrent Associative Memories: Stability and Relative Capacity” 18th IEEE Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence, ICTAI'06, Washington DC, VA, USA, Nov. 2006.

17. Mohammad Reza Rajati, Mohammad Bagher Menhaj, Hamid Khaloozadeh, “An Extension to Zadeh’s Truth Qualification Principle for Resolution of Self-Referential Sentences: Towards a Comprehensive Theory of Type-2 Fuzzy Possibility” IEEE Conference on Computational Cybernetics, ICCC'06, Tallinn, Estonia, August 2006. 18. Mohammad Reza Rajati, Mohammad Bagher Menhaj, “Stability of Equilibrium Points and Storage Capacity of Hopfield Neural Networks with Higher Order Nonlinearity” IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence-International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN 2006), Vancouver, BC, Canada, July 2006. 19. M. B. Motamedinejad, R. Barzamini, H. Rastegar, Mohammad Reza Rajati, “Path Planning of Multiple Robots Based on Dynamic Programming” Advances in Cybernetic Systems, IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics Chapter, Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, UK, September 2006.

5. Technical Reports

Mohammad Reza Rajati, Regularization Methods in Regression: Application of The LASSO and Ridge Regression to the Prostatic Cancer Dataset Mohammad Reza Rajati and Edmond Jonckheere, “Fuzzy-Valued Kolmogorov-Sinai Entropy for Fuzzy Dynamical Systems”

Mahmoud Kamalzare, Mohammad Reza Rajati, and Jerry Mendel, “State Estimation in Structural Systems Using Extended and Unscented Kalman Filters” Mohammad Reza Rajati and Mohammad Bagher Menhaj, “Training Chaotic Neural Networks with Non-Hebbian Algorithms”

Mohammad Reza Rajati and Saeed Setayeshi, “Self Reference, Fuzzy Logic and Chaotic Behavior in Multi-agent Systems”

Mohammad Reza Rajati, “Complex Systems and Chaos: Chaos in Intelligent Systems,” BSc. Thesis, Supervisor: Prof. M.B. Menhaj

Mohammad Reza Rajati, “Optimal Estimation and Hypothesis Testing for a Novel Class of Models with Unknown-But-Bounded Disturbances,” Under Supervision of Dr. Hamid Khaloozadeh and Prof. Witold Pedrycz.

Mohammad Reza Rajati, Hamid Khaloozadeh, Mohammad Mehdi Korjani “Covariance System of Linear Models with Pure Delay in State is a Multi-Dimensional System.” 6. Magazine Articles

1. Mohammad Reza Rajati, “Intelligent Agents: Technology of the New Millennium for Control, Robotics and Artificial Intelligence”, Teyf Scientific Magazine, in Persian. Teaching Assistantship & Teaching Experience

Introduction to Probability and Statistics, Instructor: Prof. J. M. Mendel, University of Southern California, spring 2012.

Digital Signal Processing, Instructor: Prof. R. Leahy, University of Southern California, fall 2011.

Stochastic Control, K. N. Toosi University of Technology, fall 2008, Instructor: Dr. H. Khaloozadeh.

Optimal Control, K. N. Toosi University of Technology, spring 2008, Instructor: Dr. H. Khaloozadeh.

Fundamentals of Instrumentation, K. N. Toosi University of Technology, spring 2008, Instructor: Mr. M. Ayati.

System Identification, K. N. Toosi University of Technology, fall 2007, Instructor: Dr. H. Khaloozadeh.

Neural Networks, Azad University, fall 2006.

Modern Control Theory, Amirkabir University of Technology, spring 2006, Instructor: Dr. K. Kiani

Industrial Control Systems, Amirkabir University of Technology, fall 2005, Instructor: Dr. A. Afshar

Fundamentals of Instrumentation, Amirkabir University of Technology, spring 2005, Instructor: Dr. A. Afshar

Linear Algebra, University of Birmingham and Amirkabir University of Technology Collaborative Program on Electrical Engineering (In English), fall 2004, Instructor: Prof. M. B. Menhaj

Signals and Systems, Shahed University, summer 2004, Instructor: Dr. H. Shakouri Calculus II, Shahed University, summer 2004

Instruction

Introduction to Computational Intelligence, Scientific Association of Electrical Engineering Department, AUT, fall 2004, (The program was held for new entries) Honors, Awards, and Activities

Services

Member of Technical Program Committee, IEEE Symposium on Industrial Electronics and Applications (ISIEA 2012), Bandung, Indonesia, 2012. Member of Task Force on Applications of IEEE Technical Committee on Neural Networks

Program Committee Member, 14th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, ICAI 2012, Las Vegas, NV, USA, July 16-19 2012.

Session Co-Organizer: “Computing with Words,” (with Jerry M. Mendel), IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ IEEE) 2014, Beijing, China Session Co-Organizer: “Basic and Advanced Computing with Words,” (with Jerry M. Mendel), IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ IEEE) 2013, Hyderabad, India

Session Co-Organizer: “Basic and Advanced Computing with Words,” (with Jerry M. Mendel and Dongrui Wu), NAFIPS 2012, Berkeley, CA, USA Member of Reviewer Board, Artificial Higher Order Neural Networks for Modeling and Simulation, IGI Publishing, 2012

Speaker, Zadeh Colloquium, Spetember 2014. Topic: Computing with Words or How to Mimic Human Reasoning

Member of Program Committee, 2015 International conference on Software Engineering and Information Technology, June 26-28, 2015, Guilin, Guangxi, China Review for Prestigious Journals and Conferences

IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems

IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics (Previously IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part B: Systems and Humans)

IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine

Scientia Iranica, Elsevier Science

Applied Soft Computing, Elsevier Science

International Journal of Fuzziness, Uncertainty, and Knowledge-Based Systems, World Scientific

Neural Computing and Applications, Springer Verlag International Journal of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science International Journal of Information Technology and Decision Making Advances in Fuzzy Systems, Hindawi Publishing

Artificial Higher Order Neural Networks for Modeling and Simulation, IGI Publishing Politics and Policy in the Information Age, Jonathan Bishop and Ashu M. G. Solo, eds., IGI Publishing, 2014

Journal of Medical Signals and Sensors

Computers and Industrial Engineering, Elsevier Science Special issue of Neural Networks, 20th Anniversary of International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN), Guest Co-Editors: David Brown, Ron Sun, Jennie Si, Elsevier Science, 2008.

International Journal of Engineering Intelligent Systems, CRL Publishing. Energies, MDPI Publishing

2014 World Congress on Computational Intelligence, Beijing, China, 2014 2013 IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ IEEE 2013), Hyderabad, India, 2013.

2013 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN 2013), Dallas, TX, USA, August 2013

2013 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing, Zakopane, Poland, 2013.

2013 Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI'13), Singapore 2012 NAFIPS Annual Meeting, Berkeley, CA, USA

2012 World Congress on Computational Intelligence, 25th International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, (IJCNN 2012), Brisbane, Australia 2012 World Congress on Computational Intelligence, 2012 IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems, (FUZZ IEEE 2012), Brisbane, Australia 2012 Iranian Conference on Electrical Engineering, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran The 9th IEEE-RIVF International Conference on Computing and Communication Technologies, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, Feb 27-March 1st, 2012. IEEE World Congress on Soft Computing, San Francisco, California, USA, 2011. IEEE 2010 International Conference on Fuzzy Systems, Barcelona, Spain, July 2010. 24th International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, (IJCNN 2011), San Jose, California, USA

International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing, Poland 22nd International IEEE-INNS Joint Conference on Neural Networks, (IJCNN 2009), Atlanta, Georgia, USA

20th International IEEE-INNS Joint Conference on Neural Networks, (IJCNN 2007), Orlando, Florida, USA

7th IEEE International Conference on Computational Intelligence in Robotics and Automation, (CIRA 2007), Jacksonville, Florida, USA Honors and Awards

Annenberg Fellow, University of Southern California, August 2009-May 2015. Summer Research Institute Fellow, University of Southern California, Summer 2011. Best Paper Award Nomination, 2012 IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems, Brisbane, Australia.

Second Rank in 2005 entries of Mechatronics, K. N. Toosi University of Technology Third rank in 2001 entries with major option in control and systems, AUT, 2005 Ranked 18th in the Graduate Studies Entrance Test (Mechatronics) among more than 3000 applicants, spring 2005

Assistant in the establishment of Computational Intelligence and Control Research Center, Department of Electrical Engineering, Control and Systems Division, AUT, Under Supervision of Prof. M. B. Menhaj, summer 2004 Winner of Electrical Engineering Department Chair’s Award due to activities in the scientific association and Teyf scientific group, AUT, spring 2004 Winner of the University’s Chancellor Award due to activities in the Scientific Association, AUT, spring 2004

Member of the scientific committee, “A Week of Control” Program, under supervision of Control Engineering Division”, AUT, fall 2003 Member of the founder committee, Scientific Association of Electrical Engineering Department, AUT, fall 2002

Editor, Teyf Scientific Journal, Department of Electrical Engineering, AUT, 2001-2004 Member, Teyf Scientific Group, Department of Electrical Engineering, AUT, 2001- 2004

Undergraduate student with honorary position, AUT, 2001-2005 Ranked 108th in Undergraduate Entrance Test among more than 400,000 participants, 2001

Languages

Persian (Mother Tongue), English

Some knowledge of French, Arabic, and Kurdish

Professional Society Memberships

IEEE, IEEE Computational Intelligence Society

Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) Selected Accomplished Industrial Projects

Implementation of ISA S8801 Standard on the Pegah Dairy Industries’ Production Line, summer 2006.

Design of HMI and development of PLC programs for Pegah Dairy Industries, summer 2006.

Design of a stand-alone power system using particle swarm optimization Work Experience

System manager and project designer in: Natural Language Processing, Knowledge Representation, and Knowledge Distillation. Management Technology Inc., Tehran- Iran, Oct. 2008-May 2009.

Graduate Courses

Mechatronics I

Mechatronics II

Advanced Engineering Mathematics

Fuzzy Systems and Control

Optimal Control

Neural Networks

Graduate Seminar

Stochastic Control

System Identification

Nonlinear and Adaptive Control (EE 587)

Uncertainty Modeling and Stochastic Optimization (EE 645) Random Processes (EE 562a)

Introduction to Digital Signal Processing (EE 483) Estimation Theory (EE 563)

Introduction to Mathematical Statistics-a (MATH 541a) Chaotic Systems (EE 584)

Numerical Analysis and Computation (MATH 501)

Introduction to Mathematical Statistics-b (MATH 541 b) Perceptual Computing (EE 599)

Applied Probability-b (MATH 505b)

Topics in Stochastic Processes: Statistics for SPDEs (MATH 606) Seminar in Statistical Consulting (MATH 650)

Analysis of Variance and Regression (MATH 542L)

Law and Intellectual Property for Engineers (EE 682) Pre-requisite Courses in Mechanical Engineering

Static and Mechanic of Materials

Dynamics, Dynamics of Machines and Mechanism Design Hobbies

Literature, Philosophy, Playing Setar and Barbat (Iranian Lute) References

Fred Aminzadeh, PhD. Professor at Departments of Petroleum and Electrical Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California. President of FACT Corp.

Iraj Ershaghi, PhD. Omar B. Milligan Professor at the Department of Petroleum Engineering, Director of the Petroleum Engineering Program, Executive Director of the Chevron–USC Center for Smart Oilfield Technologies, Executive Director of UKC

(USC-KOC) Center for Research and Education, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California.

Alireza Fatehi, PhD. Associate Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, K. N. Toosi University of Technology, Tehran-Iran.

Edmond A. Jonckheere, PhD. Professor, Departments of Electrical Engineering and Mathematics, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA-USA. Hamid Khaloozadeh, PhD. Professor, Head of Control Engineering Division, Department of Electrical Engineering, K. N. Toosi University of Technology, Tehran- Iran.

Jerry M. Mendel, PhD. Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA-USA.

Shri Narayanan, PhD. Andrew J. Viterbi Professor of Engineering, Professor of Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Linguistics and Psychology, Director, Signal Analysis and Interpretation Lab (SAIL), Director, Ming Hsieh Institute (MHI), University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA-USA. Mohammad Bagher Menhaj, PhD. Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran-Iran.

Witold Pedrycz, PhD. Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton- Canada and Systems Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw-Poland. Canada Research Chair in Computational Intelligence

Shahram Rahimi PhD. Professor and Chair, Department of Computer Science, Southern Illinois University, IL-USA.

Terry Rickard, PhD. Colorado, USA.

Elham Sahebkar Khorasani, PhD. Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Springfield, IL-USA. David Wilkinson, PhD. Senior Research Scientist, Chevron, Texas, USA. Lotfi A. Zadeh (Founder of Fuzzy Logic, Inducted in Artificial Intelligence Hall of Fame), PhD. Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Director of Berkeley Initiative on Soft Computing (BISC), University of California, Berkeley- CA, USA.

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