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Piero P. Bonissone - Biographic Information
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A Chief Scientist at GE Global Research, Dr. Bonissone has been a pioneer in the field of fuzzy logic, AI, soft computing, and approximate reasoning systems applications since 1979. During the eighties, he conceived and developed the Diesel Electric Locomotive Troubleshooting Aid (DELTA), one of the first fielded expert systems that helped maintenance technicians in troubleshooting diesel-electric locomotives. He has been the PI in many DARPA programs, from Strategic Computing Initiative, to Pilot's Associate, Submarine Operational Automation System, and Planning Initiative (ARPI). During the nineties, he led many projects in fuzzy control, from the hierarchical fuzzy control of turbo-shaft engines to the use of fuzzy logic in dishwashers, locomotives, and resonant converters for power supplies. He designed and integrated case-based and fuzzy-neural systems to accurately estimate the value of single-family residential properties when used as mortgage collaterals. In early 2000, he designed a fuzzy-rule based classifier, trained by evolutionary algorithms, to automate the placement of insurance applications for long term care and term life, while minimizing the variance of their decisions. This classifier has been in production since 2003. Recently he has led a Soft Computing (SC) group in the development of SC application to diagnostics and prognostics of processes and products, including the prediction of remaining life for each locomotive in a fleet, to perform efficient assets selection. His current interests are the development of multi-criteria decision making systems applied to PHM issues, and the automation of intelligent systems lifecycle, i.e. the development of processes to create, deploy, and maintain smart SC-based systems that provide customized performance while adapting themselves to avoid obsolescence.
He is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics
Engineers (IEEE), of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial
Intelligence (AAAI), of the International Fuzzy Systems Association (IFSA),
and a Coolidge Fellow at GE Global
Research. He served as Editor in Chief
of the International Journal of Approximate Reasoning for 13 years. He is in the editorial board of five technical
journals and is Editor-at-Large of the IEEE Computational Intelligence
Magazine. He has co-edited six books
and has over 150 publications in refereed
journals, book chapters, and conference
proceedings, with an H-Index of 20.
He received 40 patents issued from
the US Patent Office (plus 41 pending patents). Since 1982, he has been an Adjunct Professor at Rensselaer
Polytechnic Institute, in Troy N, where he has supervised 5 PhD theses
and 32 Master theses. He has
co-chaired nine scientific conferences
focused on Multi-Criteria Decision-Making, Fuzzy sets, Diagnostics,
Prognostics, and Uncertainty Management. Dr. Bonissone is very active in the
IEEE, where is currently a member of the Fellow Evaluation Committee. In the
past, while serving as President of the IEEE Neural Networks Society (now Computational Intelligence Society) he was
also a member of the IEEE Technical Board Activities (TAB). He has been an
Executive Committee member of NNS/CIS society since the past 16 years.
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