IEEE Awards
IEEE Frank Rosenblatt Award
The IEEE Frank Rosenblatt Award is a Technical Field Award sponsored by the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society.
The award, established in 2004, is named in honor of Frank Rosenblatt, who is regarded as one of the founders of neural networks. Basing his research on study of fly vision, he developed the single-layer input layer and an output layer of neural cells. Frequent presentation of a pattern or patterns resulted in changes in the input to output connections, facilitating future recognition of these patterns, or memory. His work influenced and anticipated many modern neural network approaches.
This award will be presented for outstanding contributions to the advancement of the design, practice, techniques or theory in biologically and linguistically motivated computational paradigms including but not limited to neural networks, connectionist systems, evolutionary computation, fuzzy systems, and hybrid intelligent systems in which these paradigms are contained.
This award may be presented to an individual, multiple recipients, or a team of not more than three members. This award is administered by the Technical Field Awards Council of the IEEE Awards Board. Prize items include a bronze medal, certificate and honorarium.
Congratulate the 2023 IEEE Frank Rosenblatt Award recipient:
Marios Polycarpou
Polycarpou pioneered the development of neural network-based fault monitoring and event detection. Its wide use in today’s monitoring and control systems makes reliable operation in diverse applications possible
The IEEE Computational Intelligence Society is most pleased to announce that Marios Polycarpou has been selected as the recipient of the prestigious 2023 IEEE Frank Rosenblatt Technical Field Award. Professor Polycarpou was selected "for pioneering contributions to the theory and application of neural networks and learning systems in monitoring and control." Professor Polycarpou will receive the award at the 2023 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN 2023), which will be held in Queensland, Australia, from 18-23 June 2023.
Marios Polycarpou’s research on intelligent monitoring and control has had a long-lasting impact in numerous application domains, including water distribution networks, robotic systems, smart buildings, automation in healthcare devices, smart electric grids, and transportation. His work in neural networks-based adaptive control methods has transformed the field and opened new ways for designing neural control schemes with learning capabilities for uncertain dynamical systems. He also initiated an entirely new approach to using a learning systems methodology in fault diagnosis. First developed in 1994, his approach is now important to the Internet of Things and cyber-physical systems, where faults can heavily—and subtly—affect application performance.
An IEEE Fellow, Polycarpou is a professor of electrical and computer engineering and director of the KIOS Center of Excellence, at the University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus.
IEEE CIS Neural Networks Pioneer Award Nomination Instructions
The IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Neural Networks Pioneer Award recognizes significant contributions to early concepts and sustained developments in the field of neural networks. This award recognizes two types of pioneering contributions: (1) fundamental understanding and (2) engineering application. This Neural Networks Pioneer Award is considered annually and may be given to an individual or a group not exceeding three persons who contributed to the advancement of theory, technologies, and/or applications of neural networks by inventing new technologies, creating innovative technical developments, implementing new products, or managing innovative product design or production processes. The prize includes a plaque plus US$2,500 honorarium, plus travel support for each recipient and one companion to attend award presentation in the year of the award. For those who are interested in submitting a nomination for the IEEE CIS Neural Networks Pioneer Award, the materials needed are the following:
•Nomination Letter with the following information:
•Nominator: name, affiliation and email address of nominator
•Nominee: name, affiliation, postal address, email address and webpage address of nominee
•Basis for Nomination: detailed documentation that includes:
•Category of nomination: Identification of the category of pioneering contribution as either (1) fundamental understanding or (2) engineering application.
• Scope of the evaluation window: Significance of contribution made at least 15 years prior to the award date. The Pioneer Award is not a lifetime achievement award. The nomination should specifically describe the technical contribution(s) that occurred at least 15 years prior to the year of the Award. • Nomination Focus: The nomination should focus on at least one, and at most three major technical contributions, which had realized the impact and verifiable evidence. The impact and evidence of those contributions, as well as possible spinoffs (e.g. patents or follow-up papers), might be more recent, but they must be clearly associated by the nominator with the original contribution. Please discuss the pioneering nature of cited contribution in light of the category of nomination, the impact on the industry, economy, government, and society, and the impact on neural networks research and development from the point of view of theory, technologies, and/or applications.
•Proposed Citation: provide a suggestion for the complete, correct, and succinct citation. The Awards Committee reserves the right to make any necessary change on the citation.
•Up to five reference letters supporting the nomination.
Failing in providing the above due material will negatively affect the nomination evaluation.
The complete nomination packet must be saved in a single pdf file containing the above information in the given order. The name of the file must be surname_of_nominee-NNPioneer.pdf. The complete nomination packet must be submitted by email to the Awards Soliciting Nominations Subcommittee Chair, Nikhil Pal at nrpal59@gmail.com and a copy to cis-info@ieee.org. Only when the Awards Committee Chair acknowledges receipt of the nomination packet, the submission procedure can be considered complete. The deadline is April 30 (strict deadline). Self-nominations are not allowed.
If you have any questions regarding the IEEE CIS Neural Networks Pioneer Award nomination, please feel free to contact the Awards Committee Chair: CT Lin at Chin-Teng.Lin@uts.edu.au.
IEEE CIS Evolutionary Computation Pioneer Award Nomination Instructions
The IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Evolutionary Computation Pioneer Award recognizes significant contributions to early concepts and sustained developments in the field of evolutionary computation. This award recognizes two types of pioneering contributions: (1) fundamental understanding and (2) engineering application. This Evolutionary Computation Pioneer Award is considered annually, and may be given to an individual or a group not exceeding three persons who contributed to the advancement of theory, technologies, and/or applications of evolutionary computation by inventing new technologies, creating innovative technical developments, implementing new products, or managing innovative product design or production processes. The prize includes a plaque plus US $2,500 honorarium, plus travel support for each recipient and one companion to attend award presentation in the year of the award. For those who are interested in submitting a nomination for the IEEE CIS Evolutionary Computation Pioneer Award, the materials needed are the following:
• Nomination Letter with the following information:
• Nominator: name, affiliation and email address of nominator
• Nominee: name, affiliation, postal address, email address and webpage address of nominee
• Basis for Nomination: detailed documentation that includes:
• Category of nomination: Identification of the category of pioneering contribution as either (1) fundamental understanding or (2) engineering application.
• Significance of contribution made at least 15 years prior to award date. Please discuss the pioneering nature of cited contribution in light of the category of nomination, the impact on the industry, economy, government, and society, and the impact on evolutionary computation research and development from the point of view of theory, technologies, and/or applications.
• Outcomes: Discuss the quantity and quality of the outcomes.
• Proposed Citation: provide suggestion for the complete, correct, and succinct citation. The Awards Committee reserves the right to make any necessary change on the citation.
• Up to five reference letters supporting the nomination.
The complete nomination packet must be saved in a single pdf file containing the above information in the given order. The name of the file must be surname_of_nomineeECPioneer.pdf.
The complete nomination packet must be submitted by email to the Awards Committee Chair, Prof. Jose Principe (principe@cnel.ufl.edu) and a copy to cis-info@ieee.org. Only when the Awards Committee Chair acknowledges receipt of the nomination packet, the submission procedure can be considered complete.
The deadline is April 30 (strict deadline). Self-nominations are not allowed.
The list of past awardees is provided below for reference:
- 2018: Kalyanmoy Deb
- 2017: Kenneth Price and Rainer Storn
- 2016: Marco Dorigo
- 2015: Thomas Bäck
- 2014: George Burgin
- 2013: Xin Yao
- 2012: Russell C. Eberhart, James Kennedy, and J. David Schaffer
- 2011: Larry J. Eshelman
- 2010: David E. Goldberg and John Grefenstette
- 2008: David B. Fogel
- 2005: Kenneth De Jong
- 2004: Richard Friedberg
- 2003: John H. Holland
- 2002: Ingo Rechenberg and Hans-Paul Schwefel
- 2001: Michael Conrad
- 2000: George Box
- 1999: Alex S. Fraser
- 1998: Lawrence J. Fogel
If you have any questions regarding the IEEE CIS Evolutionary Computation Pioneer Award nomination, please feel free to contact the Awards Committee Chair: Cesare Alippi at alippi@elet.polimi.it.
IEEE CIS Fuzzy Systems Pioneer Award Nomination Instructions
The IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Fuzzy Systems Pioneer Award recognizes significant contributions to early concepts and sustained developments in the field of fuzzy systems. This award recognizes two types of pioneering contributions: (1) fundamental understanding and (2) engineering application. This Fuzzy Systems Pioneer Award is considered annually, and may be given to an individual or a group not exceeding three persons who contributed to the advancement of theory, technologies, and/or applications of fuzzy systems by inventing new technologies, creating innovative technical developments, implementing new products, or managing innovative product design or production processes. The prize includes a plaque plus US $2,500 honorarium, plus travel support for each recipient and one companion to attend award presentation in the year of the award. For those who are interested in submitting a nomination for the IEEE CIS Fuzzy Systems Pioneer Award, the materials needed are the following:
•Nomination Letter with the following information:
•Nominator: name, affiliation and email address of nominator
•Nominee: name, affiliation, postal address, email address and webpage address of nominee
•Basis for Nomination: detailed documentation that includes:
•Category of nomination: Identification of the category of pioneering contribution as either (1) fundamental understanding or (2) engineering application.
• Scope of the evaluation window: Significance of contribution made at least 15 years prior to the award date. The Pioneer Award is not a lifetime achievement award. The nomination should specifically describe technical contribution(s) that occurred at least 15 years prior to the year of the Award. • Nomination Focus: The nomination should focus on at least one, and at most three major technical contributions, which had realized impact and verifiable evidence. The impact and evidence of those contributions, as well as possible spinoffs (e.g. patents or follow-up papers), might be more recent, but they must be clearly associated by the nominator with the original contribution. Please discuss the pioneering nature of cited contribution in light of the category of nomination, the impact on the industry, economy, government, and society, and the impact on neural networks research and development from the point of view of theory, technologies, and/or applications.
•Proposed Citation: provide suggestion for the complete, correct, and succinct citation. The Awards Committee reserves the right to make any necessary change on the citation.
•Up to five reference letters supporting the nomination.
Failing in providing the above due material will negatively affect the nomination evaluation.
The complete nomination packet must be saved in a single pdf file containing the above information in the given order. The name of the file must be surname_of_nominee-FSPioneer.pdf. The complete nomination packet must be submitted by email to the Awards Soliciting Nominations Subcommittee Chair, Nikhil Pal at nrpal59@gmail.com and a copy to cis-info@ieee.org. Only when the Awards Committee Chair acknowledges receipt of the nomination packet, the submission procedure can be considered complete. The deadline is April 30 (strict deadline). Self-nominations are not allowed.
If you have any questions regarding the IEEE CIS Fuzzy Systems Pioneer Award nomination, please feel free to contact the Awards Committee Chair: CT Lin at Chin-Teng.Lin@uts.edu.au.
IEEE CIS Evolutionary Computation Pioneer Award Nomination Instructions
The IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Evolutionary Computation Pioneer Award recognizes significant contributions to early concepts and sustained developments in the field of evolutionary computation. This award recognizes two types of pioneering contributions: (1) fundamental understanding and (2) engineering application. This Evolutionary Computation Pioneer Award is considered annually, and may be given to an individual or a group not exceeding three persons who contributed to the advancement of theory, technologies, and/or applications of evolutionary computation by inventing new technologies, creating innovative technical developments, implementing new products, or managing innovative product design or production processes. The prize includes a plaque plus US $2,500 honorarium, plus travel support for each recipient and one companion to attend award presentation in the year of the award. For those who are interested in submitting a nomination for the IEEE CIS Evolutionary Computation Pioneer Award, the materials needed are the following:
•Nomination Letter with the following information:
•Nominator: name, affiliation and email address of nominator
•Nominee: name, affiliation, postal address, email address and webpage address of nominee
•Basis for Nomination: detailed documentation that includes:
•Category of nomination: Identification of the category of pioneering contribution as either (1) fundamental understanding or (2) engineering application.
• Scope of the evaluation window: Significance of contribution made at least 15 years prior to the award date. The Pioneer Award is not a lifetime achievement award. The nomination should specifically describe technical contribution(s) that occurred at least 15 years prior to the year of the Award. • Nomination Focus: The nomination should focus on at least one, and at most three major technical contributions, which had realized impact and verifiable evidence. The impact and evidence of those contributions, as well as possible spinoffs (e.g. patents or follow-up papers), might be more recent, but they must be clearly associated by the nominator with the original contribution. Please discuss the pioneering nature of cited contribution in light of the category of nomination, the impact on the industry, economy, government, and society, and the impact on neural networks research and development from the point of view of theory, technologies, and/or applications.
•Proposed Citation: provide suggestion for the complete, correct, and succinct citation. The Awards Committee reserves the right to make any necessary change on the citation.
•Up to five reference letters supporting the nomination.
Failing in providing the above due material will negatively affect the nomination evaluation.
The complete nomination packet must be saved in a single pdf file containing the above information in the given order. The name of the file must be surname_of_nominee-ECPioneer.pdf. The complete nomination packet must be submitted by email to the Awards Soliciting Nominations Subcommittee Chair, Nikhil Pal at nrpal59@gmail.com and a copy to cis-info@ieee.org. Only when the Awards Committee Chair acknowledges receipt of the nomination packet, the submission procedure can be considered complete. The deadline is April 30 (strict deadline). Self-nominations are not allowed.
If you have any questions regarding the IEEE CIS Evolutionary Computation Pioneer Award nomination, please feel free to contact the Awards Committee Chair: CT Lin at Chin-Teng.Lin@uts.edu.au.