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Current engagements and honorary professor appointments:
 

• Visiting Professor, IICT, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (since 2022).

• Visiting Professor Dalian University, China (since 2022).  

• Honorary Professor, Auckland Bioengineering Institute, University of Auckland (since 2020);

• George Moore Professorship of Data Analytics in the Intelligent Systems Research Center at Ulster University, Derry, UK.

• Honorary and Visiting Professorship appointments in Teesside University UK, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, ETH/UniZurich.

• Editor-in-Chief of the Springer Series in Bio-/Neurosystems and Springer Journal Evolving Systems.

• Associate Editor of numerous international journals, including Neural Networks, IEEE Transactions of Cognitive and Development Systems, and Information Sciences.

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Awards and Memberships:
 

• Computer Science New Zealand Leader Award, Research.com (2023): https://research.com/u/nikola-kasabov

• Fellow of IEEE (Institute for Electrical and Electronic Engineers)

• Fellow of RSNZ (Royal Society of New Zealand)

• Fellow of the College of Fellows of INNS (International Neural Network Society)

• Distinguished Visiting Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering UK

• Fellow of the NZ IITP (Institute for IT Professionals).

• Doctor Honoris Causa of Obuda University Budapest.

• The Bayer Science Innovator Award (2007);

• EU Marie Curie Fellowship (2011-2012);

• the INNS Gabor Award (2012);

• The Royal Society of New Zealand Silver Medal (2001);

• the AUT Medal (2015).

• the INNS Ada Lovelace Meritorious Aaward (2019);

• Innovator of the Year in NZ (2019).

• Visiting Professor, Institute for Information and Communication Technologies, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (2022).

• Ph.D. Advisor, Technical University of Sofia.

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Main interests are in the areas of:
 

• computational intelligence;

• neuro-computing;

• bioinformatics;

• neuroinformatics;

• speech and image processing;

• data mining;

• knowledge representation and

• knowledge discovery.

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Publications include over 700+ works:
 

• 300+journal papers,

• 10 textbooks,

• 6 edited research books and monographs,

• 288 conference papers,

• 60 book chapters,

• 10 edited conference proceedings,

• 28 patents and authorship certificates in the area of intelligent systems, connectionist and hybrid connectionist systems, fuzzy systems, expert systems, speech recognition, bioinformatics, neurocomputing, and neural networks

• Publications and Citations on Google Scholar
   

Leadership of international professional organizations:
 

• President of the International Neural Network Society (INNS) (2009-2010),

• President of the Asia-Pacific Neural Network Assembly (APNNA) (2008),

• President of the Asia Pacific Neural Networks Society (2019) (APNNS).

• General Chairman of a series of biannual international conferences on Neurocomputing and Evolving Intelligence in New Zealand (1992- 2018).

 

Extensive academic experience at various academic and research organizations:
 

• Technical University of Sofia, Bulgaria;

• University of Otago, New Zealand;

• University of Essex, UK;

• University of Trento, Italy; 

• TU Kaiserslautern Germany;

• ETH Zurich, Switzerland;

• Shanghai Jiao Tong University;

• Ulster University UK.

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Professor Kasabov has a Master's degree in Computer Science and Engineering, and a Ph.D. in Mathematical Sciences from the Technical University in Sofia, Bulgaria. He has supervised to completion of 50 Ph.D. students.

 

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Professor Nikola Kasabov, the Founder and Director of Knowledge Engineering.ai, is an internationally established scientist and a Professor of Knowledge Engineering in the School of Engineering, Computing, and Mathematical Sciences at Auckland University of Technology (AUT).

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Founding Director of:
 

• the Knowledge Engineering Laboratory at the University of Otago (1992) and

• the Knowledge Engineering and Discovery Research Institute (KEDRI, www.kedri.aut.ac.nz) at the Auckland University of Technology (AUT) (2002).