Invited Speaker

Prof. Shahnaz N. Shahbazova

Vice-President of the International Academy of Sciences named after Lotfi A. Zadeh

Department of Computer Technology and Cyber Security, Azerbaijan Technical University, Baku, Azerbaijan

Keynote Talk

Lotfi A. Zadeh’s Life and Work - A Retrospective View

This talk will describe the life and scientific activities of Professor Lotfi A. Zadeh. It is based on interviews of Lotfi Zadeh by Dr. Shahnaz Shahbazova. The talk will include detailed descriptions of his life from birth to the last days of his life. It will consider his education and scientific life and how Zadeh’s theories and technologies were born. The presentation also describes Lotfi’s awards.

Shahnaz N. Shahbazova received her Candidate of Technical Sciences degree in 1995 and has been an Associate Professor since 1996. She has served for more than 34 years at the "Information Technology and Programming" Department of Azerbaijan Technical University. She is an academician of the International Academy of Sciences named after Lotfi A. Zadeh, 2002, and vice president of the same academy, 2014. Since 2011, she has served as a General Chair and Organizer of World Conference on Soft Computing (WCSC), dedicated to preserving and advancing the scientific heritage of Professor Lotfi A. Zadeh. She is Honorary Professor of Obuda University, Hungary, and Arad "Aurel Vlaicu" University in Romania, Honorary Doctorate of Philosophy in Engineering Sciences, International Personnel Academy of UNESCO. She is an International expert of UNESCO in the implementation of Information Communication Technology (ICT) in educational environments in Azerbaijan. She is a member of the Editorial Board of International Journal of Advanced Intelligence Paradigm (Romania), Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics (Baku), and Journal of Problems of İnformation Technology (Baku).

She served as a Program Committee member for over 30 international conferences and as a reviewer for nearly 40 international journals. Her visiting, research appointments, and fellowships abroad: India - 3 months (1998); Germany (DAAD), (1999, 2003, 2010); USA, California (Fulbright), 10 month (2007-2008); USA, UC Berkeley- 6 month (2012, 2015, 2016, 2017), USA, UC Berkeley, 12 months (2018). She is the author of more than 162 scientific articles and 2 monographs. Her research interests include Artificial Intelligence, Soft Computing, Intelligent system, Machine Learning Techniques to Decision Making and Fuzzy Neural Network.

Shahbazova is a member of the Board of Directors of North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society (NAFIPS); the Berkeley Initiative in Soft Computing group (BISC); the New York Academy of Sciences. She is a Fellow of Russian Association For Fuzzy Systems and Soft Computing.She is also a member of the International Women Club, Azerbaijan.