Bernadette Bouchon-Meunier

Abstract: The discovery of fuzzy systems at their very beginning gave me the chance to work in an emerging field where everything was to be built. Their success has been essentially based on the cooperation between theoretical and methodological advances of academics, and the attractiveness and efficiency of industrial applications. As a senior researcher, a university teacher and the head of successive research teams or departments in the Université Paris 6-Pierre et Marie-Curie, I was able to lead research in the area of decision making and artificial intelligence. I led or participated in 20 research and development projects involving a number of academic and industrial partners. I was also the supervisor or co-supervisor of 52 PhD students, 25 of them being financially supported by an industry grant from my direct collaboration with companies. I strongly believe that academic and industrial advances foster each other. The IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, which I chaired in 2020-2021, recently created a Committee for Industrial and Governmental Activities with the goal of attracting more practitioners and companies and highlighting real-world applications of Computational Intelligence, especially those at the heart of most of the currently popular applications of Artificial Intelligence. We will give examples of real-world applications of Fuzzy Systems and, more generally, Computational Intelligence.

Biography:

Bernadette Bouchon-Meunier is a director of research emeritus at the National Centre for Scientific Research and Sorbonne University, the former head of the department of Databases and Machine Learning in the LIP6 laboratory. She is the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Uncertainty, Fuzziness and Knowledge-based Systems and the Co-executive director of the IPMU International Conference held every other year since 1986. B. Bouchon-Meunier is the (co)-author of five books and the (co)-editor of 30. She has (co)-authored more than 400 papers on the applications of fuzzy logic and machine learning techniques to decision-making and data science.

She was elected President of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society for 2020-2021. She is an IEEE Life Fellow, an IFSA Fellow and an Honorary Member of the EUSFLAT Society. She received the 2012 IEEE CIS Meritorious Service Award, the 2017 EUSFLAT Scientific Excellence Award, the 2018 IEEE CIS Fuzzy Systems Pioneer Award and the 2019 Outstanding Volunteer Award of the IEEE France Section.