Dr. Jim Bezdek    

Jim Bezdek received the BSCE from the U. of Nevada (Reno) in 1969, and the Ph.D. in Applied Math from Cornell in 1973. He is currently the Nystul Professor of Computer Science at the University of West Florida. His previous experience includes the directorship of Boeing's HTC Inf. Proc. Lab, and a term as head of Computer Science at the University of South Carolina.

    Jim's interests include woodworking, optimization, motorcycles, pattern recognition, fishing, vision and image processing, skiing, computational neural networks, blues music, medical applications and cigars. Jim is the founding editor of the Int'l. Jo. Approximate Reasoning and the IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems. He has been a distinguished lecturer for the IEEE and ACM, is an IEEE fellow, and was president of the IEEE Neural Networks Council in 1997-1998.

    Current research topics: multiple prototype classifier designs, mixed fuzzy-possibilistic c-means clustering models, rule extraction with clustering, generalized nearest prototype classifier networks, fusion of heterogeneous fuzzy data, target recognition with LADAR data, mammographic image analysis, topics in cluster validity, robotic control models, fuzzy learning vector quantization, clustering with genetic algorithms, and acceleration of image processing algorithms.

 

 

Bars, Guitars, and Cigars!

 

     

"Good friends don't let friends smoke cheap cigars!"

 

It's not the destination, it's the journey!

 

Because every girl is crazy about a sharp dressed man!

 

E-Mail: jbezdek@argo.cs.uwf.edu

Last Revised: 06/18/99