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class=\"wp-content\">\r\n        <div class=\"wp-eyebrow\">Computational Intelligence<\/div>\r\n\r\n        <h1 class=\"wp-name\">Witold Pedrycz<\/h1>\r\n\r\n        <p class=\"wp-title\">\r\n          Professor and Canada Research Chair in Computational Intelligence<br>\r\n          University of Alberta \u00b7 IEEE Life Fellow\r\n        <\/p>\r\n\r\n        <p class=\"wp-desc\">\r\n          Prof. Witold Pedrycz is an internationally renowned scholar in computational intelligence, fuzzy systems, granular computing, knowledge discovery, and data-driven intelligent systems. His work has significantly advanced human-centric intelligent modeling, fuzzy set theory, neural networks, evolutionary computation, pattern recognition, and machine learning methods for complex and uncertain environments.\r\n        <\/p>\r\n\r\n        <div class=\"wp-badges\">\r\n          <span class=\"wp-badge\">IEEE Life Fellow<\/span>\r\n          <span class=\"wp-badge\">Computational Intelligence<\/span>\r\n          <span class=\"wp-badge\">Fuzzy Systems<\/span>\r\n          <span class=\"wp-badge\">Granular Computing<\/span>\r\n        <\/div>\r\n      <\/div>\r\n    <\/div>\r\n\r\n    <div class=\"wp-body\">\r\n      <div class=\"wp-section\">\r\n        <h3>Biography<\/h3>\r\n        <p>\r\n          Prof. Witold Pedrycz is Professor and Canada Research Chair in Computational Intelligence at the University of Alberta. His research interests cover computational intelligence, fuzzy modeling, granular computing, knowledge discovery, data mining, neural networks, evolutionary computation, pattern recognition, and intelligent information processing. He is widely recognized for his contributions to the theory and applications of fuzzy systems and human-centric intelligent systems. He has also held influential editorial roles in leading international journals and has contributed extensively to the global computational intelligence community.\r\n        <\/p>\r\n\r\n        <div class=\"wp-research-grid\">\r\n          <div class=\"wp-research-item\">Fuzzy Systems & Fuzzy Modeling<\/div>\r\n          <div class=\"wp-research-item\">Granular Computing<\/div>\r\n          <div class=\"wp-research-item\">Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining<\/div>\r\n          <div class=\"wp-research-item\">Neural Networks & Machine Learning<\/div>\r\n        <\/div>\r\n      <\/div>\r\n\r\n      <div class=\"wp-section\">\r\n        <h3>Selected Highlights<\/h3>\r\n        <ul class=\"wp-list\">\r\n          <li>Professor and Canada Research Chair in Computational Intelligence at the University of Alberta.<\/li>\r\n          <li>IEEE Life Fellow and internationally recognized leader in fuzzy systems and computational intelligence.<\/li>\r\n          <li>Foreign member of the Polish Academy of Sciences.<\/li>\r\n          <li>Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.<\/li>\r\n          <li>Editor-in-Chief of Information Sciences and active editorial contributor to major journals in intelligent systems and data science.<\/li>\r\n          <li>Research contributions span fuzzy sets, granular computing, neural networks, evolutionary computation, pattern recognition, and data mining.<\/li>\r\n        <\/ul>\r\n      <\/div>\r\n    <\/div>\r\n\r\n    <div class=\"wp-footer-strip\">\r\n      <div><strong>Research Focus:<\/strong> Computational Intelligence \u00b7 Fuzzy Systems \u00b7 Granular Computing \u00b7 Data Science<\/div>\r\n      <div>International Association for Computational Intelligence<\/div>\r\n    <\/div>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n<\/section>\r\n```\r\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Computational Intelligence Witold Pedrycz Professor and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-857","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iaci-global.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iaci-global.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iaci-global.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iaci-global.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iaci-global.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=857"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/iaci-global.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":946,"href":"https:\/\/iaci-global.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/857\/revisions\/946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iaci-global.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}