Jacek Zurada
Biography
Dr. Jacek M. Zurada has PhD degree in Electrical Engineering from Gdansk University of Technogy, Gdansk, Poland. He was a post-doc at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich. He now serves as a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, USA. In 2004-06 he served as Department Chair. He was a Visiting Professor at Princeton University; Northeastern University; Auburn University; the National University of Singapore; Nanyang Technological University in Singapore (as Nanyang Professor); Chinese University of Hong Kong; Hong Kong University of Science and Technology; the University of Chile, Santiago; Toyohashi University of Technology, Japan, the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa, the University of Marie-Curie, Paris, France, China University of Petroleum, Qing-dao, China, Warsaw Institute of Technology, Poland.
Dr. Zurada has received a number of awards for distinction in research and teaching, including the 1993 Presidential Award for Research, Scholarship and Creative Activity and the 2001 Presidential Distinguished Service Award for Service to the Profession. He received the Golden Jubilee Medal from the Circuits and Systems Society in 2000 and the Meritorious Service Award from the Computational Intelligence Society in 2008. His other distinctions include IEEE Life Fellow, and numerous other IEEE and non-IEEE distinctions such as 2014 Joe Desch Award, International Neural Networks Society Fellow, 2020 IEEE TAB Hall of Honor Award and 2025 IEEE Norbert Wiener Award. In 2003, he was conferred the Title of Professor by the President of Poland. In 2005 he was elected a Foreign Member of the Polish Academy of Sciences. He also holds a honorary doctorate. His hobbies include languages, modern history, and music.
Degrees and Certifications
Gdańsk University of Technology
Gdańsk University of Technology
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, 1977-1978