Dr. Robert Marks, Electrical and Computer Engineer

Robert J. Marks II. Distinguished Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering. Ph.D. (1977) Texas Tech University, B.S./M.S Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology (1972/1973). Coming from the University of Washington (1977-2003) where he was Professor of Electrical Engineering and Graduate Program Director (1997-2000). Fellow of the Optical Society of American and the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE). IEEE Distinguished Lecturer (1991-1992, 2002-2003) and recipient of the IEEE Centennial Medal and Certificate. Distinguished Young Alumnus of Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. Inductee into the Texas Tech Electrical Engineering Academy. Awarded the Golden Jubilee Award by the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society. Co-recipient of the Judith Stitt Award at the American Brachytherapy Society 23rd Annual Meeting for prostate cancer research paper. Co-recipient of NASA Tech Brief Award for work in wireless communication. Recipient of the “Banned Item of the Year” Award from the Discovery Institute, and a recognition crystal from the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks for contributions to the field of neural networks (2007). Given honorary title of Charter President of the IEEE Neural Networks Council. Former Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, and topical editor for Optical Signal Processing and Image Science for the Journal of the Optical Society on America A. Member of the Editorial Board for The International Journal of Neurocomputing, The Australian Journal of Intelligent Information Processing Systems, The Journal of Advanced Computational Intelligence, Sampling Theory in Signal & Image Processing, and the International Advisory Editorial Board of the Journal of Engineering Research. Co-founder and first President of The Puget Sound Section of the Optical Society of America, elected first Honorary Member. Co-founder and first Chair of the IEEE Circuits & Systems Society Technical Committee on Neural Systems & Applications. IEEE Circuits and Systems Society Vice-President of Administration (2003-2004), member of the Board of Governors (1993-96, 1998-2000, 2001-2003). Co-Founder and first Chapter Chair of the Dallas Section of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (2006-07).

General Chair of the International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Seattle. General Co-Chair for four years of the IEEE/IAFE Conference on Computational Intelligence in Financial Engineering in New York. International Chair of the RNNS/IEEE Symposium on Neuroinformatics and Neurocomputing (Rostov-on-Don, USSR), Organizational Chair for the (first & second), IEEE Virtual Reality Annual International Symposium (VRAIS) in Seattle and Raleigh, NC, respectively, and The (first) IEEE-SP International Symposium on Time-Frequency and Time-Scale Analysis (Victoria, BC). Program and Tutorials Chair for the First International Forum on Applications of Neural Networks to Power Systems (Seattle). Technical Program Director for the first IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence, Orlando, Program Co-chair for The IEEE/IAFE Conference on Computational Intelligence in Financial Engineering (CIFEr), The RNNS/IEEE Symposium on Neuroinformatics and Neurocomputing (Rostov-on-Don, Russia) and The International Conference on Neural Networks (ICNN) in Perth, Australia. North American Liaison for the Singapore International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN); the Tutorials Chair for the IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence, Anchorage; Publications Chair of the IEEE International Electric Machines and Drives Conference (IEMDC’99), Seattle. Program Co-Chair, Program Co-Chair.Special Sessions Chair for the 2000 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks – Italy, and Information Processing by Neural Networks, (IP+NN ‘ 97), 1997, Ukraine. Steering Committee Chair for the IEEE Symposium on Swarm Intelligence, Pasadena (2005).

Consultant for the Boeing Corporation, Southern California Edison and Microsoft. Technical Advisory Board Member for Inficom Inc and Quantum Ltd. Research funded by Army Research Office, EPRI, the Jet Propulsion Lab, NASA, the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, the Office of Naval Research, and the Strategic Defense Initiative,

Over 250 journal and conference publications. Eleven papers have been reproduced in volumes of collections of seminal papers. Three US patents in the field of artificial neural networks and signal processing. Books include Handbook of Fourier Analysis and Its Applications (Oxford University Press, 2008), Neural Smithing: Supervised Learning in Feedforward Artificial Neural Networks, (MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1999 – with Russell D. Reed.) and Introduction to Shannon Sampling and Interpolation Theory, (Springer-Verlag, 1991). Editor or co-editor of five other volumes, including Computational Intelligence: Imitating Life, Fuzzy Logic Technology and Applications, and Applications of Neural Networks to Power Systems.

Faculty advisor to the University of Washington’s chapter of Campus Crusade for Christ for fifteen years. Affiliate Member of Christian Leadership Ministries. Board of Directors and Secretary of Arbor Ministries, Inc. A servant of Jesus Christ.