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IFSA - NAFIPS 2019: Committees

General Co-Chairs

R. Baker Kearfott (University of Louisiana at Lafayette)
Vijay Raghavan (University of Louisiana at Lafayette)
Calvin Berry, webmaster and advisor (University of Louisiana at Lafayette)

Special Sessions Committee

Patricia Melin, Chair (NAFIPS president; Instituto Tecnológico de Tijuana)
Ricardo Transcheit (Brazilian Society of Automatics representative)
Masahiro Inuiguchi (Osaka University)
Tomoharu Nakashima (Osaka Prefecture University)
Longfei Li (University of Louisiana at Lafayette)
Susana Montes (Spain)
Irene Diaz (Spain)
Hayriye Gulbudak (University of Louisiana at Lafayette)

Publications Committee

Ildar Batyrshin, Chair (President of Russian Association for Fuzzy Systems and Soft Computing)

Program Committee (selection of plenary speakers)

László Kóczy Co-chair in charge of keynote speaker program (Founding President and Life Honorary President of Hungarian Fuzzy Association and Past President of IFSA; Budapest University of Technology and Economics)
Phuong Nguyen (President of Vietnam Fuzzy Society)
Javier Montero (IFSA President; Complutense University of Madrid)
Longzhi Yang
Joao Paulo Carvalho
Vilém Novák
Irina Perfilieva
Jesús Medina Moreno

Awards Committee

Guoqing Chen, Chair (IFSA Vice President for Awards)

Publicity Committee

Barnabas Bede Chair (DigiPen Institute of Technology)
Vladik Kreinovich (Vice President of publicity for IFSA; University of Texas El Paso)

Liaison for Europe

Martin Stepnicka (President, European Society for Fuzzy Logic and Technology; University of Ostrava)

Liaison for Brazil

Benjamin Bedregal (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte)

Liaison for Spain

Luis Magdalena (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid)

Liaison for Korea

Frank Chung-Hoon Rhee (Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems)

Liaison for Taiwan

Shun-Feng Su (Past IFSA president; National Taiwan University of Science and Technology)

Liaison for Canada

Marek Reformat (IFSA President elect; University of Alberta)

Liaison for Japan

Isao Hayashi (Kansai University)

Scientific Committee

R. Baker Kearfott (University of Louisiana at Lafayette)
Vladik Kreinovich (Vice President of publicity for IFSA; University of Texas El Paso)
Weldon Lodwick (University of Colorado Denver)
Vijay Raghavan (University of Louisiana at Lafayette)
Bruce Wade (University of Louisiana at Lafayette)

Local Arrangements Committee

Patricia Beaulieu (University of Louisiana at Lafayette)
Jared Guilbeau (University of Louisiana at Lafayette)
Sungsu Kim (University of Louisiana at Lafayette)
Julie Roy (University of Louisiana at Lafayette)
Aghalaya Vatsala (University of Louisiana at Lafayette)
Xiang-Sheng Wang (University of Louisiana at Lafayette)
Glenda Broussard (University of Louisiana at Lafayette)

Technical Program Committee

Antonio Diego Silva Farias (UFERSA, Brazil)
Eduardo Silva Palmeira (UESC, Brazil)
Graçaliz Pereira Dimuro, (FURG, Brazil)
Helida Santos (FURG, Brazil)
Regivan Hugo Nunes Santiago (UFRN, Brazil)
Renata Hax Sander Reiser (UFPEL, Brazil)
Ronei M. de Moraes (UFPB, Brazil)
Fernando Gomide (UNICAMP, Brazil)
Marley Vellasco (PUC-Rio, Brazil)
Jorge Amaral (UERJ)
Heloisa Camargo (UFSCar, Brazil)
Peter Sussner (UNICAMP, Brazil)
Nguyen Hoang Phuong (Thang Long University, Vietnam)
Bui Cong Cuong (Mathematics Institute, Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology)
Tran Dinh Khang (School of Information and Communication Technology, Hanoi University of Science and Technology)
Ngo Thanh Long (LeQuyDon Technical University, Hanoi, Vietnam)
Le Van Hung (Faculty of Information Technology, Hanoi University of Mining and Geology)
M. Hassan Najafi (UL Lafayette)

Summer School

Atsushi Inoue (USA)
Tadahiko Murata (Japan)
Suguru N. Kudoh (Japan)
Yusuke Nojima (Japan)
Martine Ceberio (UTEP, USA)