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Graduate Student Research Grants

Walter J. Karplus - In Memoriam

The IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (CIS) funds scholarships for deserving undergraduate, graduate and PhD students who need financial support to carry out their research during an academic break period. Any student with a meritorious project is invited to apply, but scholarships will be granted only to applicants who are student members of the IEEE CIS and students at the time the scholarship is awarded

Each scholarship may cover expenses related to:

1. support to the student at their home institution for intensive work on a particular project.
2. a visit to another university, institute or research agency for collaboration with an identified researcher in the field of interest of the applicant.

Funds cannot be used for conference travel or buying computers.

The field of interest of applicants is open, but should be connected with identifiable component of the CIS (neural networks, fuzzy systems, or evolutionary computation).

The amount of a CIS scholarship varies from $1,000 to $4,000. We expect to award 3-5 scholarships every year. The number of scholarships is dependent on budget approval by CIS ADCOM. Renewals and continuations for a second year support will be considered only if the justification for such a request is sufficiently compelling.

To apply for a CIS scholarship, interested applicants should submit a proposal to the CIS Graduate Student Research Grants Sub-Committee. Your proposal, to be submitted as a unique PDF file, should state the general purpose of your request, and should follow these guidelines:

1. detailed explanation of the research to be conducted with the support from the scholarship (10pt font, 3 page maximum)
2. references related to research (10pt font, 1 page maximum)
3. a timeline of tasks required to complete research goals
4. a fully explanatory budget (1 page maximum)
5. your resume (1 page maximum). Please provide your IEEE member number
6. 2 reference letters supporting your application (including letters from sponsoring professors, if applicable). These must be included with your application and are not to be received individually

Only if requested by the referee, reference letters can also be sent directly to the Graduate Student Research Grants Sub-Committee Chair in order to submit them without the intermediary of the student. Such letters will then not be viewable by the student.

All applications MUST BE RECEIVED no later than the deadline through the Grant Application System.

Evaluation and selection will be based on:

1. Merit of the research to be supported
2. Originality of the research
3. Qualification and past performance
4. Supporting references
5. Reasonableness of budget

Decision of the Graduate Student Research Grant Sub-committee will be announced within 40 days from the application deadline.

After the end of the sponsored project:

1. Student's research sponsor needs to provide a certification to the sub-committee chair stating that the student has performed satisfactory research work as proposed and meet the goal set forth in the proposal.
2. Upon certification by the student's research sponsor, the student will receive funds as reimbursements for his/her expenses.
3. Final technical report in the format of a major CIS conference publication are due on December 1 of the award year.

Note the following dates:

Submission of applications: February 15, 2011 - April 14, 2011 ·
Notification of acceptance: May 15, 2011

IEEE CIS subcommittee on Research Grants Roster 2010

Cesare Alippi, Chair Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione Politecnico di Milano Piazza L. da Vinci, 32 Milano 20133, Italy phone: (+39 022) 399 3512 (MI), (+39 034) 148 2772 (LC) fax: (+39 022) 399 3411 email: alippi .a_t. elet.polimi.it www: home.dei.polimi.it/alippi/

Rami Abielmona Larus Technologies 58 Antares Drive, Unit 1 Ottawa, ON, Canada phone: +1 613 244 8916 fax: +1 613 244 9941 email: rabielmo .a_t. ieee.org www: www.larus.com

Oscar Cordon European Centre for Soft Computing Edificio Cientifico-Tecnologico, planta 3 C. Gonzalo Gutierrez Quiros, s/n 33600 - Mieres (Asturias), Spain phone: (+34) 985 45 65 45 fax: (+34) 985 45 66 99 email: oscar.cordon .a_t. softcomputing.es www: www.softcomputing.es/oscarcordon

Valerie Cross Computer Science and Software Engineering Miami University, USA Benton Hall Oxford, Ohio 45056-1601, USA phone: (513) 529-0789 fax: (513)-529-0333 email: crossv .a_t. muohio.edu www: www.eas.muohio.edu/departments/cse/mycse/faculty-staff/faculty/dr-valerie-cross/

Frank Hoffmann Lehrstuhl für Regelungssystemtechnik (RST) Fakultät für Elektro- und Informationstechnik Technische Universität Dortmund D-44221 Dortmund, Germany phone: +49-231-755-3998 fax: +49-231-755-2752 email: frank.hoffmann .a_t. tu-dortmund.de www: www.rst.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de/cms/de/Lehrstuhl/Mitarbeiter/Oberingenieur/Frank_Hoffmann.php

Huaguang Zhang Department of Electrical Engineering Northeastern University Wenhua Road 3-11#, Heping District Shenyang, Liaoning 110819, China phone: +86-24-83687762 fax: +86-24-83689605 email: hgzhang .a_t. ieee.org www: www.eai.neu.edu.cn/zhanghuaguang1.asp

Woei Wan Tan Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering National University of Singapore 4 Engineering Drive 3 Singapore 117576 phone: +65 6516 8323 fax: +65 6779 1103 email: wwtan .a_t. nus.edu.sg www: www.ece.nus.edu.sg/stfpage/eletanww

Ivo Bukovsky Department of Instrumentation and Control Engineering Czech Technical University in Prague Technicka 4 Prague 166 07, Czech Republic phone: 420-2-24352529 fax: 420-2-24352674 email: ivo.bukovsky .a_t. fs.cvut.cz www: www.fsid.cvut.cz/~bukovsky

Yuhui Shi Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University 111 Renai Road Suzhou 215123, China phone: (+86)-512-88161402 fax: (+86)-512-88161999 email: shi .a_t. ieee.org www: www.xjtlu.edu.cn

Pablo Zegers College of Engineering and Applied Sciences University of the Andes San Carlos de Apoquindo 2200, Las Condes Santiago 7620001, Chile phone: (+562) 412 9324 email: pzegers .a_t. miuandes.cl

2011 Grant Recipients and Final Reports

• Minlong Li, University of Science and Technology, China: Selective Further Learning for Class Imbalanced Incremental Learning
• Mostafa M. Ellabaan, Nanyang Technological University,Singapore: A Computational Intelligence Methodology for Unique, Low-Energy Glutamic Acid Isomers Discovery
• Rafael Falcon, University of Ottawa, Canada: Music-Aware Artificial Fireflies to Sensor Relocation by a Robot Team

2010 Grant Recipients and Final Reports

• Yifeng Li, University of Windsor, Canada: Non-Negative Matrix and Tensor Factorization Methods for Microarray Data Analysis
• Bipul Luitel, Missouri University of Science & Technology, USA: Real-Time Implementation of Cellular Neural Networks for Smart Grid Applications
• Zai Wang, University of Science and Technology of China, China: An Efficient Particle Swarm Optimizer for Multi-level Redundancy Allocation Problem

2009 Grant Recipients and Final Reports

• Yi Mei, University of Science and Technology, China: Decomposition-Based Memetic Algorithm for Multi-Objective Capacitated Arc Routing Problem.
• Joshua Payne, Dartmouth Medical School, USA: Toward computational evolution: Incorporating ecological interactions and conditional dispersal into biologically-inspired algorithms.
• ThanhVu Nguyen, University of New Mexico, USA: A closed-loop repair of software bugs.
• Pinaki Mitra, Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA: Adaptive Critics with Spiking Neural Networks for Applications in Smart Power Grids.

2008 Grant Recipients and Final Reports

• Andrea Arcuri, University of Birmingham, UK: Automatic Repair of Buggy Software
• Anna V. Kononova, University of Leeds, UK: Differential Evolution with Scale Factor Local Search for Large Scale Problems
• Yanchao Wang, Jilin University, China: Research on the Evolutionary Prediction of Very Complex Crystal Structures
• Yu Wang, University of Science and Technology, China: Investigation on Large Scale Global Optimization with Noise-Induced

2007 Grant Recipients and Final Reports

• Broderick Crawford, Universidad T'ecnica Federico Santa Maria, Chile: Integrating Ant Computing and Constraint Programming
• Maciej Mazurowski, University of Louisville, USA: Computational Intelligence in Patient-Sensitive Medical Decision Systems
• Olga Nechaeva, Novosibirsk State University, Russia: Neural network approach to construction of 3D surface and volume adaptive meshes based on self-organization
• Dongrui Wu, University of Southern California, USA: A Comparative Study of Ranking Methods, Similarity Measures and Uncertainty Measures for Interval Type-2 Fuzzy Sets
• Yusuf Yare, Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA: Optimal Maintenance Scheduling of Power Systems using an Algorithm Inspired by Swarm Intelligence and Quantum Evolution

2006 Grant Recipients and Final Reports

• Christopher J. Rozell, Rice University at Houston, USA: Dynamic systems for sparse coding
• Mostafa Z. Ali, Wayne State University, USA: Exploring Knowledge and Population Swarms via an Agent-Based Cultural Algorithms Simulation Toolkit (CAT)
• Ting Huang, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA: Neuarl Network Modeling and Feedback Error Learning Control for Automotive Fuel-Injection Sysetms
• Feilong Liu, University of Southern California, USA: An efficient centroid type reduction strategy for general Type-2 fuzzy logic system
• Changbo Yang, Wayne State University, USA: Region-based image annotation using multiple-instance learning
• Wojciech Stach, University of Alberta, Canada: Parallel Genetic Learning of Fuzzy Cognitive Maps
• Tridib K. Das, University of Rolla, USA: Bio-Inspired Algorithms for the Design of Optimal Controllers for Power System Stabilization

2005 Grant Recipients and Final Reports

• Srinivas Andra, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA: Combining dichotomizers for MAP field classification
• Andrea Kulakov, Sts Cyril and Methodius University, Macedonia: Efficient data management in wireless sensor networks using artificial neural networks
• Swakshar Ray, University of Missouri-Rolla, USA: Computaional intelligence for large power systems
• Lingfeng Wang, Texas A&M University, USA: Hybrid electric vehicle design based on a multi-objective optimization evolutionary algorithm

2004 Grant Recipients and Final Reports

• Pedro DeLima, Oklahoma State University, USA: Application of adaptive critic designs for fault tolerant control
• Zuwairie Ibrahim, Meiji University, Japan: Towards solving weighted graph problems by direct-proportional length-based DNA computing
• Dragana Jankovic, Technical University of Delft, Netherlands: Moisture transport and drying shrinkage cracking in cement-based materials at early age
• Ivana Ljubic, Technical University of Vienna, Austria: An evolutionary approach to the fractional prize-collecting Steiner tree problem
• Roberto Santiago, Portland State University, USA

2003 Grant Recipients and Final Reports

• Jian-Hung Chen: Theoretical analysis of multi-objective genetic algorithms convergence time, population sizing, and disequilibrium
• Min Chen: Modeling of plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition of nano-crystalline silicon carbide films using neural network
• Dan-Marius Dobrea: Bio-psychical and physical fatigue state analysis and assessment
• Timo Horeis: Intrusion detection with neural networks - combination of self-organizing maps and radial basis function networks for human expert integration

2002 Grant Recipients and Final Reports

• Zhe Chen: Proportionate adaptation paradigms and application in network echo cancellation
• Haiming Lu: Dynamic population strategy sssisted particle swarm optimization in multiobjective evolutionary algorithm design

2001 Grant Recipients and Final Reports

• Ivana Ljubic: An evolutionary approach to weighted biconnectivity augmentation problems on graphs
• Phayung Meesad: Quantitative measures of a fuzzy expert system
• Ganesh Kumar Venayagamoorthy: Adaptive critic design based neurocontrollers for turbogenerator control
• Khurram Waheed: Blind source recovery: state space formulations

2000 Grant Recipients and Final Reports

• George Chronis: Spatial relations for mobile agent navigation
• Karen Haines: The functionality of extracellular diffusion in electrical neural processing
• Serdar Iplikci: An improved algorithm for convergence in training feedforward neural networks
• Chung-Chu Leung: The nth-term generalized fuzzy tree algorithm applied in edge detection
• Slawo Wesolkowski: Shading and highlight invariant color image segmentation

Graduate Student Research Grants Sub-Committee