Ronald Robert Yager (born New York City) is an American researcher in computational intelligence, decision making under uncertainty and fuzzy logic. He is currently Director of the Machine Intelligence Institute and Professor of Information Systems at Iona College.

Biography

Ronald R. Yager was born in New York City and attended elementary and high school in the New York City public school system. He got a Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering from the City College of New York. He holds a Ph.D. in Systems Science, a degree that he got from the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn (now known as the Polytechnic Institute of New York University). He is currently Director of the Machine Intelligence Institute and Professor of Information Systems at Iona College (New York)

Iona College (New York)

Iona College is located in New Rochelle, New York, 20 miles north of Manhattan in suburban Westchester County. The college occupies 35 acres on North Ave. The college also operates a Graduate Center in Pearl River, Rockland County, New York....

. He previously taught at the Pennsylvania State University

Pennsylvania State University

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Professional Career

Since 1973, Ronald R. Yager has worked in the area of computational intelligence

Computational intelligence

Computational intelligence is a set of Nature-inspired computational methodologies and approaches to address complex problems of the real world applications to which traditional methodologies and approaches are ineffective or infeasible. It primarily includes Fuzzy logic systems, Neural Networks...

. He was the recipient of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Pioneer award in Fuzzy Systems; Dr. Yager is a fellow of the IEEE which is a distinction reserved for select IEEE members whose extraordinary accomplishments; he is also a Fellow of the New York Academy of Sciences

New York Academy of Sciences

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 and the Fuzzy Systems Association. He was given a lifetime achievement award by the Polish Academy of Sciences

Polish Academy of Sciences

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 for his contributions. He served at the National Science Foundation

National Science Foundation

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 as program director in the Information Sciences program.

He was a NASA/Stanford visiting fellow and a research associate at the University of California, Berkeley

University of California, Berkeley

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. He has been a lecturer at NATO Advanced Study Institutes. He collaborates world-wide with many researchers.

He is editor and chief of the International Journal of Intelligent Systems. He serves on the editorial board of numerous technology journals, including the IEEE Intelligent Systems, IEEE Transaction on fuzzy Systems, and Fuzzy Sets and Systems.

While Ronald Yager has published many articles in diverse areas related to computational intelligence and fuzzy logic, he is most highly cited for his work on Ordered Weighted Averaging (OWA) Aggregation Operators

Ordered Weighted Averaging (OWA) Aggregation Operators

Introduced by Ronald R. Yager, the Ordered Weighted Averaging operators, commonly called OWA operators, provide a parameterized class of mean type aggregation operators. Many notable mean operators such as the max, arithmetic average, median and min, are members of this class...

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