Members

Taskforce Chair:

YiLu Murphey

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Michigan-Dearborn
4901 Evergreen Road, ELB 204, ECE, Dearborn, Michigan 48128, USA
Email: yilu@umich.edu
Personal Page: http://www-personal.engin.umd.umich.edu/~yilu/.

Yi Lu Murphey received a M.S. degree in computer science from Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, in 1983, and a PhD degree with a major in Computer Engineering and a minor in Control Engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, in 1989. Currently she is a professor and the Chair of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of Michigan-Dearborn. Her current research interests are in the areas of machine learning, text mining and intelligent systems with applications to engineering diagnostics and prognostics, optimal vehicle power management and intelligent transportation systems. She is an editor for the Journal of Pattern Recognition. She has served on technical committees and session chairs for many conferences and organized special sessions for various conferences sponsored by the Computational Intelligence Society. She is currently the Vice Chair of IEEE SEM section and also the chair of the conference committee. More detail of her research can be found at http://www-personal.engin.umd.umich.edu/~yilu/.

Task Force Vice-Chair:

Thomas A. Montgomery, PhD

Technical Expert
Ford Motor Company
Email: tmontgo1@ford.com

A Technical Expert in Ford Motor Company's Research Labs, Tom has a B.S. in Physics, and M.S. and PhD in Computer Engineering from the University of Michigan where he studied Distributed Artificial Intelligence. He began his career at Ford in model based diagnosis, but then concentrated on text-mining, applying it across the company to surveys, warranty, news, intellectual property, and other internal and external data. He has led large-scale experiments on the application of prediction markets at Ford Motor Company, and has analyzed risks in the supply base. Tom has two patents and one trade secret, has published papers in AAAI, IEEE SMC, Tools for AI, RAMS, Group Decision and Negotiation, and SAE, and has made presentations and/or served on the organizational and review boards for ACM SIGIR, AIAG, CEC, INFORMS, IQPC and others.

Other Members

Barbara Hmmer

Diane Cook

Zhi-Hua Zhou

Michael Biehl

jgama

Ata Kaban

Frank-Michael Schleif

Enhong Chen

Mehmed Kantardzic

Yonghong Peng

Yanqing Zhang

Geoff Webb

Bernhard Pfahringer

Hussein Abbass

Min-Ling Zhang

Udo Seiffert

Thomas Runkler

Paulo Lisboa

Yang Yu

Friedhelm Schwenker

Carlotta Domeniconi

Guoxian Yu

Robi Polikar

Pinar Öztürk

Sven Crone

Alfredo Vellido

Erzsebet Merenyi