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Editors’ Brief Biographies

Robert Kozma

ROBERT KOZMA is a Professor of Mathe-
matics, Director of Center for Large-Scale
Integrated Optimization and Networks, Univer-
sity of Memphis, TN, USA; and Visiting
Professor of Computer Science, University
of Massachusetts Amherst. He is Fellow of
IEEE and Fellow of the International Neural
Network Society (INNS). He is President of
INNS (2017e18) and serves on the Governing
Board of IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics
Society (2016e18). He has served on the AdCom
of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society
and on the Board of Governors of INNS.
Dr. Kozma is the recipient of the INNS Gabor
Award (2011) and Alumni Association Distinguished Research Achievement Award
(2010). He has also served as Senior Fellow (2006e08) of US Air Force Research
Laboratory. His research includes robust decision support systems, autonomous
robotics and navigation, distributed sensor networks, brain networks, and braine
computer interfaces.

Cesare Alippi

CESARE ALIPPI is a Professor with the Politec-
nico di Milano, Milano, Italy, and Universita `
della Svizzera italiana, Lugano, Switzerland.
He is an IEEE Fellow, Member of the Adminis-
trative Committee of the IEEE Computational
Intelligence Society, Board of Governors member
of the International Neural Network Society
(INNS), and Board of Directors member of the
European Neural Network Society. In 2018, he
received the IEEE CIS Outstanding Computa-
tional Intelligence Magazine Award, the (2016)
Gabor award from the INNS, and the IEEE
Computational Intelligence Society Outstanding
Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning
Systems Paper Award; and in 2004, he received the IEEE Instrumentation and Mea-
surement Society Young Engineer Award. His current research activity addresses
adaptation and learning in nonstationary and time-variant environments, graphs
learning, and intelligence for embedded and cyberphysical systems.
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