Hojjat Adeli

Hojjat Adeli is Professor in the Departments of Aerospace Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Biomedical Informatics, Civil and Environmental Engineering and Geodetic Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Neuroscience at The Ohio State University. He is also the holder of Lichtenstein Professorship. He has authored over 400 research and scientific publications in various fields of computer science, engineering, and applied mathematics since 1976 when he received his Ph.D. from Stanford University at the age of 26. He has authored ten books including Machine Learning - Neural Networks, Genetic Algorithms, and Fuzzy Systems, Wiley, 1995, Neurocomputing for Design Automation, CRC Press, 1998, Distributed Computer-Aided Engineering, CRC Press, 1999, Control, Optimization, and Smart Structures - High-Performance Bridges and Buildings of the Future, Wiley, 1999, and most recently Wavelets to Enhance Computational Intelligence, Wiley, 2005. He has also edited twelve books including Knowledge Engineering - Vol. I - Fundamentals and Vol. II -Applications, McGraw-Hill, 1990, Intelligent Information Systems, IEEE Computer Society, 1997. He is the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of the international research journals Computer-Aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering, now in 21st year of publication and Integrated Computer-Aided Engineering, now in 14th year of publication. He is also the Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of Neural Systems. In 1998 he received the Distinguished Scholar Award from The Ohio State University “in recognition of extraordinary accomplishment in research and scholarship”.