Modern Approaches in Machine Learning & Cognitive Science: A Walkthrough

Jacek M. Zurada is Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Director of the Computational Intelligence Laboratory at the University of Louisville, Kentucky, USA, where he served as Department Chair and Distinguished University Scholar. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees (with distinction) in electrical engineering from the Technical University of Gdansk, Poland. He has published over 420 journal and conference papers in neural networks, deep learning, computational intelligence, data mining, image processing, and VLSI circuits. He has authored or co-authored three books, including the pioneering text Introduction to artificial neural systems, co-edited the volumes computational intelligence: imitating life, knowledge-based neurocomputing, and co-edited twenty volumes in Springer Lecture Notes on Computer Science. In addition to his pioneering neural networks textbook, his most recognized achievements include an extension of complex-valued neurons to associative memories and perception networks; sensitivity concepts applied to multilayer neural networks; application of networks to clustering, biomedical image classification, and drug dosing; blind sources separation; and rule extraction as a tool for prediction of protein secondary structure.