Piero P. Bonissone - Honors

Honors and Awards: External Recognition

2012: Fuzzy Systems Pioneer Award from the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society
2008: II Cajastur International Prize for Soft Computing , from the European Centre of Soft Computing and the Foundation for the Advancement of Soft Computing, (pdf - page 3)
2005: Meritorious Service Award from the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society
2005: Fellow of the International Fuzzy Systems Association (IFSA) International Fuzzy Systems Association (IFSA) for his achievements in the research of Fuzzy Systems and service to IFSA
2004: Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineering (IEEE) for his leadership in the development of artificial and computational intelligence techniques and their applications to real-world problems
1996: Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) for his pioneering development of uncertainty calculus and its application to fuzzy-logic based control systems
1986: King-Sun Fu Award from the North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society (NAFIPS) for his distinguished services to NAFIPS
1977: Early C. Anthony Scholarship, from the EECS Department, University of California, Berkeley, CA
1976: Education Abroad Program Scholarship, from the EECS Department, University of California, Berkeley, CA
1975: Mencion Honorifica (Summa cum Laude) from University of Mexico City (UNAM), Mexico

2006: Asian Pacific American Forum (APAF) Outstanding Mentor Award
2006: EB recognition dinner at Fairfield with Jeff Immelt
2005: 6+2 Award for his role in the Fixed Income Insurance Platform development for Genworth
1999: Dushman Award for his role in developing diagnostics software tools for GE medical equipment
1999: ITL Mentor of the Year Award
1993: Coolidge Fellowship Award for overall technical accomplishments. In 1995 he used this fellowship to shape and develop a new research agenda on Soft Computing (SC) while he was a visiting scientist for ten months at the AI Research Institute (Instituto de Investigacion en Inteligencia Artificial, IIIA-CSIC), in Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain
1989: Dushman Award for his role in the Reasoning with Uncertainty Module (RUM)

2011: 50^th Patent Issued - GE Global Research
2009: 150 Publications Award - GE Global Research
2006: 125 Publications Award - GE Global Research
2004: 100 Publications Award - GE Global Research
2003: Best Paper Award (with Raj Subbu) - IEEE 2003 International Conf. on Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ-IEEE 2003)
2003: 25^th Patent Issued - GE Global Research
2003: Gold Medallion Patent Award, (for 20 patents received) - GE Global Research
1994: Silver Medallion Patent Award (for 10 patent applications) - GE Global Research
1988: Bronze Medallion Patent Award (for first-time inventor) - GE Global Research

Author: Piero P. Bonissone - Email: bonissone@ge.com