Lotfi A Zadeh

Lotfi A Zadeh
Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
University of California, Berkeley, United States

Biography

LOTFI A. ZADEH is Professor Emeritus in the Computer Science Division, Department of EECS, University of California, Berkeley. In addition, he is serving as the Director of BISC (Berkeley Initiative in Soft Computing).He is an alumnus of the University of Tehran, MIT and Columbia University. From 1950 to 1959, He was a member of the Department of Electrical Engineering, Columbia University. He joined the Department of Electrical Engineering at UC Berkeley in 1959 and served as its Chair from 1963 to 1968. During his tenure as Chair, he played a key role in changing the name of the Department from EE to EECS.He held visiting appointments at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ; MIT, Cambridge, MA; IBM Research Laboratory, San Jose, CA; AI Center, SRI International, Menlo Park, CA; and the Center for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford University.