Dr. Robert Kozma is Professor of Computer Science, Director of Computational Neurodynamics Laboratory, Fellow of the FedEx Institute of Technology, The University of Memphis, TN. Dr Kozma received an MSc in Mathematics with high honors from Eotvos University, Budapest, Hungary (1988), following an engineering physics degree with distinction from Moscow Energy Institute, Russia (1982). He holds a PhD in applied physics from Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands (1992). He has been Associate Professor at the Department of Quantum Science & Engineering, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan (1993-1996), and Lecturer (=Asst. Professor) with the Department of Information Sciences, Otago University, Dunedin, New Zealand (1996-1998). He has been with the University of California at Berkeley (1998-2000), where he had a joint appointment with the Division of Neurobiology and the EECS Department, prior to joining The University of Memphis in 2000.
Dr. Kozma has over 25 years of research experience in advanced signal processing, and in design, analysis, and control of intelligent systems. His research interests include spatio-temporal dynamics of neural processes, random graph approaches to large-scale networks, such as neural nets and neuropercolation, computational intelligence methods for knowledge acquisition and autonomous decision making in biological and artificial systems. Research in his Computational Neurodynamics Laboratory in Memphis has received over $2 M funding from agencies including US Air Force Research Laboratory, Jet Propulsion Research Laboratory, National Research Council, NASA Revolutionary Computing Program, NSF Biological Information Technology and Cognitive and Behavioral Programs. He has held visiting positions at UC Berkeley, Lawrence Berkeley National laboratory, NASA/JPL, Sarnoff Co., Princeton, NJ, AFRL Hanscom AFB, MA. Dr. Kozma is regular invited, plenary, keynote speaker and panelist at various professional meetings and events. He has published 4 books, over 150 articles in international journals and peer-reviewed conference proceedings. His recent book “Neurodynamics of Cognition and Consciousness,” co-edited by L. Perlovsky, has been published by Springer Verlag, Fall 2007.
Dr. Kozma serves on the Board of Governors of the International Neural Network Society INNS (2004-2007, 2007-2009). He is SIG Chair of INNS, Technical Committee Member of IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, a Senior Member of IEEE. He is Associate Editor of ‘IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks,’ ‘Neurocomputing’ (Elsevier), ‘Journal of Computational Neurodynamics’ (Springer), Area Editor of ‘New Mathematics and Natural Computation’ (World Scientific), and Co-Editor-In-Chief of INNS/ENNS/JNNS ‘Tri-Society Newsletters on Neural Networks.’ He has acted as Guest Editor of 'Journal of Integrative Neuroscience,' 'IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks,' ‘Information Sciences,' ‘Journal of Advanced Computational Intelligence,’ and ‘International Journal of Intelligent Systems.' Dr. Kozma has major role in various international conferences. In addition to having served on Program Committees of over 20 international conferences, he is Program Co-Chair of International Joint Conference on Neural Networks IJCNN08 at World Congress on Computational Intelligence WCCI08 in Hong Kong, June 1-6, 2008; has been Program Co-Chair of IJCNN04, Budapest, Hungary, July 25-29, 2004; Chair for Finances of IEEE WCCI06, July 16-20, 2006, Vancouver, Canada;. Recently, he has been elected to be General Chair of IEEE/INNS International Joint Conference on Neural Networks IJCNN09, Atlanta, GA, June 15-19, 2009.