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From Data to Concepts: Augmented Principles, Symbolic-Granular Descriptions, and Quality Analysis
Concepts constitute a concise manifestation of key features of data. As being built at a higher level of abstraction than the collected data themselves, they capture the essence of the data and usually emerge in the form of information granules.
Professor Nikola Kasabov receives the honorary degree Doctor Honoris Causa from Obuda University, Hungary
On 23rd November 2018, at a formal ceremony held in Budapest, the AUT KEDRI Director Professor Nikola Kasabov received the honorary degree Doctor Honoris Causa from Obuda University ‘in recognition for his internationally recognised work in soft computing methods which make him a leading expert in this field’. This is the highest honorary science degree in Hungary. After the ceremony he presented a talk “From Aristotle to AI today”. He was accompanied by his daughter Assia Kassabova, who is working in this field in Switzerland.
Neelava Sengupta received the Design and Creative Technology Award
Neelava Sengupta received the "Design and Creative Technology Award for Outstanding Doctoral Study" from DCT Dean Prof. Guy Littlefair on 13th November 2018.
Mary Ann Rebera received Dean's Award for Excellence in Postgraduate Study - 2018
Mary Ann Rebera, Masters student of batch 2017 received "Dean's Award for Excellence in Postgraduate Study".
Joyce wins AUT Excellence Award
Joyce won an AUT Excellence Award in the category "Individual Professional Excellence". This is the University's premier award for an individual member of staff for the excellent professional achievement and commitment to the strategic development of the University over a number of years.
KEDRI journal paper voted the best paper in prestigious Journal
The editorial board of a prestigious international journal Neural Networks, published by Elsevier, has selected the paper led by Prof Kasabov which includes a team from 4 countries and 6 labs in AUT as the best paper for 2016 published in this journal. Every year the Board selects the ‘best paper biennial’, based on quality of the paper, scientific rigour and impact. The awarded paper enhances the prestige of research carried out at AUT. The paper is available through the AUT Library:
N. Kasabov, N. Scott, E.Tu, S. Marks, N.Sengupta, E.Capecci, M.Othman, M. Doborjeh, N.Murli, R.Hartono, J.Espinosa-Ramos, L.Zhou, F.Alvi, G.Wang, D.Taylor, V. Feigin, S. Gulyaev, M.Mahmoudh, Z-G.Hou, J.Yang, Design methodology and selected applications of evolving spatio- temporal data machines in the NeuCube neuromorphic framework, Neural Networks, v.78, 1-14, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neunet.2015.09.011.
Prime Minister visited AUT
Research fellow Maryam Doborjeh and PhD student Zohreh Doborjeh presented the advanced neuromarketing system and the NeuCube development to the Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern when she visited AUT University to unveil the plaque and officially open the newest building WZ (31 August 2018).
Visitors to KEDRI in 2018
Dr Liu Haijun, visiting scholar from the Institute of Disaster Prevention is a visitor at KEDRI from February 1, 2018, to February 28, 2019.
Zohreh Doborjeh received Dean’s Excellence Award
Zohreh Doborjeh received Dean’s Excellence Award for outstanding performance in postgraduate studies for the year 2018.
Prof. Nikola Kasabov is the recipient of the International Neural Network Society's inaugural Award
Prof. Nikola Kasabov is the recipient of the International Neural Network Society's inaugural "Ada Lovelace Service Award" for his meritorious service to the neural community.
Professor Nikola Kasabov, is now President-Elect of the Asia-Pacific Neural Network Society (APNNS) for 2018
The KEDRI Director, Professor Nikola Kasabov, is now President-Elect of the Asia-Pacific Neural Network Society (APNNS) for 2018, to serve as its President in 2019. APNNS is a premier society of researchers and practitioners from all countries in the Asia –Pacific, Middle East and Russia, working in the areas of neural networks and artificial intelligence. The APNNS President leads this society and oversees its activities, including its annual conferences ICONIP (International Conference on Neuro-Information Processing). ICONIP 2019 will be held in Sydney, followed by a Symposium in Auckland on “Brain-like Artificial Intelligence” organised by KEDRI.
Professor Nikola Kasabov officially appointed as Advisory Professor for five years to Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU)
During his visit to China on 13th November, Professor Nikola Kasabov, FRSNZ, Director of the AUT KEDRI Institute, was officially appointed as Advisory Professor for five years to Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU) – one of the top Universities in China. The position is an honorary one and Prof Kasabov will have an advisory role on ‘Artificial Intelligence’ (AI). AI is fast developing in China and the Government has revealed a plan and funding with aims of making China the world leader in AI by 2030. Prof Kasabov gave a presentation at SJTU on current and future developments of neural networks and AI.