SIS 2014 Keynote Speaker

Russ Eberhart

Talk Title:Putting People in the Swarm

Russell C. Eberhart earned a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Kansas State University in 1972. He is best known as the co-developer of particle swarm optimization algorithm with Dr. James Kennedy. He is the Chief Technology Officer at Phoenix Data Corporation based in Indiana, USA, and was a professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and adjunct professor of Biomedical Engineering at the Purdue School of Engineering and Technology, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI). He is a fellow of the IEEE and the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering. He was an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation and past president of the IEEE Neural Networks Council (now the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society).