Piero P. Bonissone – Leadership Activities

Leadership Positions

Professional Society Activities (IEEE)

As Chair of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (CIS) Fellow Committee (in 2004-2005), as Member of the IEEE Fellow Committee (in 2007-2009), and more recently as Chair of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (CIS) Fellow Committee (in 2010) I evaluated and ranked the nominations of hundred of outstanding IEEE Senior members, as part of the selection process of the few who will be elevated to the grade of Fellow.

As the first Chair of the IEEE Frank Rosenblatt Award in 2005 and 2006, I created a committee and a process to foster thenomination of numerous potential candidates for the IEEE Frank Rosenblatt Award and to evaluate their candidacies.

As the first President of the IEEE Neural Networks Society (currently IEEE Computational Intelligence Society), I started a membership drive to create a broad membership basis for our new society, which, as a previous council (NNC), only had sponsoring societies. As a result of those initial efforts we now have a global membership of over 6,000 members.

As VP of Finances of the IEEE NNC/NNS/CIS for 13 years (over the last 17 years), I managed the budget of our council / society, leading to the creation of a net worth of over $6 MM, while supporting a broad array of educational, technical, professional development, and scientific activities.

As Conference / Program Chair for seven IEEE CIS (and five non-IEEE) sponsored conferences over the past 28 years, I organized and supervised the review process of thousands of papers, to ensure the conferences’ high quality technical content.

Academic / Scientific Activities (European Centre of Soft Computing; Elsevier)

As Member of the Scientific Committee of the European Centre of Soft Computing (ECSC) in 2009 and as Chair of the same committee from 2010 to 2013, I am leveraging my Soft Computing experience to guide and support the scientific progress and technical growth of the ECSC.

As the Editor-in Chief of the International Journal of Approximate Reasoning (IJAR) for 13 years (99 issues), I shaped the scope of the journal to reach a broad scientific audience in the Artificial Intelligence, Computational Intelligence, and Computer Science communities

Technical and Scientific Activities (GE)

Over the past six years, I played the role of Chief Scientist in the Computing and Decision Sciences (CDS) Global Technology Office at GE Global Research (GE GR). This role was officially recognized in September 2007, when GE created the Technical Career Path, consisting of five positions culminating with the role of Chief Scientist (a controlled position.) As one of the two Chief Scientists in CDS, I created a process to evaluate and rank all future high-risk, high-impact proposals submitted for corporate funding at GE GR.

As senior scientist in the Industrial Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, I mentored over 60% of the lab members, including the lab manager. As project leader in the Computing and Decision Sciences Global Technology Office, I formulated the problem, defined the metrics, shaped the technical approach, and supervised the executions of many successful projects at GE Global Research – see sample below.

Selected Projects at GE Global Research

• Prognostics and Health Management for a wide variety of assets: CT, MRI, Locomotives, Aircrafts, Aircraft Engines, Compressors, etc. (GE Healthcare, GE, Rail, GE Aviation, GE Oil & Gas, Lockheed Martin) [2000- present]

IP: 20 patents issued [2 in Anomaly Detection (7,317,994, 7,667,827); 7 in Diagnostics (6,105,149, 6,442,542, 6,609,217, 6,643,799, 7,103,509, 7,756,678, 7,814,034); 13 in Prognostics (5,942,689, 6,405,140, 6,466,877, 6,498,993, 6,519,534, 6,522,978,6,542,852, 7,395,188, 7,509,235, 7,548,830, 7,725,293)] , 10+ patents pending

• Optimal Management of Coal-Fired Boilers for Power Generation (GE Energy) [2003-07]

IP: 1 patent issued (7,389,151), 2 patents pending

• Portfolio Optimization/Rebalancing for investment funds (GE Asset Management) [2002-06]

IP: 4 patent issued (7,469,228, 7,536,364, 7,542,932, 7,630,928), 2 patents pending

• Automated Term-Life and Long Term Care Insurance Underwriting (GE Financial Assurance, now Genworth Financial). [2000-2003]

IP: 8 USPTO patents issued (7,383,239, 7,567,914, 7,630,910, 7,801,748 7,813,945, 7,818,186, 7,844,476. 7,844,477); 9 patents pending

• Demographic Profile of Preferred Customers for Target Marketing (GE Financial Assurance – Long Term Care, now Genworth Financial) [1997-1999]

• Automated Mortgage Collateral Evaluation (GE Mortgages) [1994-1995].

IP: 4 patents issued (6,115,694, 6,141,648, 6,609,217, 6,748,369)

• Paper web breakage prediction (GE Industrial Systems / GE Trading) [1994-1998]

IP: 7 patents issued (5,942,689, 6,405,140, 6,466,877, 6,498,993, 6,519,534, 6,522,978,6,542,852)

• Automated Train Controller (GE Rail) [1993-1996]

IP: 4 patents issued (5,983,144, 5,995,737, 6,243,694, 6,760,712)

• Automated Control for Cement Making (GE Industrial Systems / GE Trading) [1994-1998]

IP: 5 patents issued (6,113,256, 6,120,172 , 6,120,173, 6,668,201, 7,308,339)

• Fuzzy Logic Control for Aircraft Engines, Power Electronics, Steam Turbines, Autonomous Vehicle (GE Aviation, GE Energy, Lockheed Martin) [1992-1995]

IP: 5 patents issued (5,436,839, 5,517,424, 5,534,766, 5,806,052, 6,078,911)

• Uncertainty Management in Automated Reasoning Systems (GE Aerospace, DARPA, Rome Labs, GE Financial Assurance) [1985-1995]

IP: 5 patents issued (4,860,213, 5,058,033, 6,078,911, 7,801,748, 7,818,186)

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

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