Professor Nikola Kasabov is Life Fellow of IEEE, Fellow
of the Royal Society of New Zealand, Fellow of the INNS
College of Fellows, DVF of the Royal Academy of
Engineering UK. He is the Founding Director of the
Knowledge Engineering and Discovery Research Institute
(KEDRI), Auckland and Professor at the School of
Engineering, Computing and Mathematical Sciences at
Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand. Kasabov
is the 2019 President of the Asia Pacific Neural Network
Society(APNNS) and Past President of the International
Neural Network Society (INNS). He is member of several
technical committees of IEEE Computational Intelligence
Society and Distinguished Lecturer of IEEE (2012-2014).
He is Editor of Springer Handbook of
Bio-Neuroinformatics, Springer Series of Bio-and
Neuro-systems and Springer journal Evolving Systems. He
is Associate Editor of several journals, including
Neural Networks, IEEE TrNN, Tr CDS, Information
Sciences, Applied Soft Computing. Kasabov holds MSc and
PhD from TU Sofia, Bulgaria. His main research interests
are in the areas of neural networks, intelligent
information systems, soft computing, bioinformatics,
neuroinformatics. He has published more than 620
publications highly cited internationally. He has
extensive academic experience at various academic and
research organisations in Europe and Asia, including: TU
Sofia Bulgaria; University of Essex UK; University of
Otago, NZ; Advisory Professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong
University and CASIA China, Visiting Professor at
ETH/University of Zurich and Robert Gordon University
UK, Honorary Professor of Teesside University, UK.Prof.
Kasabov has received a number of awards, among
them:Doctor Honoris Causa from Obuda University,
Budapest; INNS AdaLovelace Meritorious Service Award; NN
Best Paper Award for2016; APNNA ‘Outstanding
Achievements Award’; INNS Gabor Awardfor ‘Outstanding
contributions to engineering applications of neural
networks’; EU Marie Curie Fellowship; Bayer Science
Innovation Award; APNNA Excellent Service Award; RSNZ
Science and Technology Medal; 2015 AUT Medal; Honorable
Member of theBulgarian, the Greek and the Scottish
Societies for ComputerScience. More information of Prof.
Kasabov can be found from:
https://academics.aut.ac.nz/nkasabov.