iNEER Awards Committee

JOHN D. CARPINELLI, USA (Interim Chair)

John Carpinelli is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Director of the Center for Pre-College Programs at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ, USA.  He received the B. Engr. degree from Stevens Institute of Technology in 1983, and the M. Engr. and Ph. D. degrees from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1984 and 1987, respectively.  He has served as Director of the Computer Engineering Program at NJIT and as a member of the Governing Board for the Gateway Engineering Education Coalition.  His research interests focus on educational computing, distance learning, computer architecture, and interconnection networks.  His textbook, Computer Systems Organization and Architecture, has been used at over 150 universities and has been translated into several languages.

PATRICIA FOX, USA (Member)

Patricia Fox received her B.S. in Accounting from Indiana University in 1980 and M.B.A. from Butler University in 1985. She is the Associate Dean for Administration and Finance and Assistant Professor of Organizational Leadership and Supervision in the Purdue School of Engineering and Technology at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI). In addition to her administrative duties, Pat teaches various courses in the Department of Organizational Leadership and Supervision. Pat currently serves as the Chair of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Engineering Technology Council (ETC) and serves on the Board of Directors of the ASEE. She has taught several summers at the Berufsakademie Mannheim. Pat is an instructor of GO GREEN.

LASZLO T. KOCZY, Hungary (Member)

Laszlo Koczy if Professor and Dean, Szechenyi Istvan University (SZE, Gyor) and Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME) Hungary. He received the M.Sc., M.Phil. and Ph.D. degrees from the Technical University of Budapest (BME) in 1975, 1976 and 1977, respectively; and the (postdoctoral) D.Sc. degree from the Hungarian Academy of Science, all in Electrical/Control Engineering. He spent most of his career at BME until 2001 and from 2002 at SZE. He has been a visiting professor at various universities abroad, namely in Australia (ANU, Murdoch and UNSW), Japan (TIT), Korea (POSTECH), Austria (J. Kepler U.), Italy (U. of Trento) and Brazil, China, Finland and Poland for summer schools. He was one of the LIFE Endowed Fuzzy Theory Chair Professors at Tokyo Institute of Technology and advisor to the Laboratory for International Fuzzy Engineering Research in Yokohama. His focus of research interest is fuzzy systems and Computational Intelligence topics (evolutionary algorithms, neural networks), as well as applications. He has published over 380 refereed papers and several text books on the subject. He introduced the concept of rule interpolation in sparse fuzzy models, and applied it successfully to the control of an automatic guided vehicle, as well as hierarchical interpolative fuzzy systems and fuzzy Hough transform. This latter topic provided the key technology in the winning vehicle in the 2007 Hungarian Mars Rover Competition. His research interests include applications of CI for telecommunication, transportation, vehicles and mobile robots, control, and information retrieval. He had been an Associate Editor of IEEE TFS and he is an Associate Editor of Fuzzy Sets and Systems, Int. J. of Fuzzy Systems, J. of Advanced Computational Intelligence, Mathware and Soft Computing. He was the General Chair of FUZZ-IEEE 2004 in Budapest, and a number of other conferences, co-chair, and PC member at many other scientific events. He served in the International Fuzzy Systems Association as President, and is now an Administrative Committee member of IEEE Computational Intelligence Society. At SZE he serves his second term as Dean of Engineering, he chairs the Ph.D. School Council and is one of the sponsors of the Szechenyi Alternative Fuel Engine Vehicles Competition, the National Conference of Mechanical Engineering Students, and other activities.