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Lawrence Hall

Distinguished University Professor

ENB 330 | 813-974-4195 | lohall@mail.usf.edu

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Biography

Dr. Lawrence Hall is a distinguished university professor of Computer Science and Engineering at University of South Florida (USF) in Tampa, FL. He received his PhD in Computer Science from the Florida State University (FSU) in 1986 and his BS in Applied Mathematics from the Florida Institute of Technology in 1980. Dr. Hall has authored over 190 publications in journals, conferences, and books. Recent publications appear in Pattern Recognition, IEEE Access, IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, and the International Conference on Pattern Recognition.

Dr. Hall has received funding from the National Institutes of Health, NASA, DOE, National Science Foundation and others. He is a fellow of the IEEE and a fellow of the AAAS and IAPR. He received the Norbert Wiener award in 2012 from the IEEE SMC Society. Dr. Hall's research interests lie in distributed machine learning, extreme data mining, bioinformatics, pattern recognition and integrating AI into image processing. The exploitation of imprecision with the use of fuzzy logic in pattern recognition, AI and learning is a research theme.

Dr. Hall received the IEEE SMC Society Outstanding contribution award in 2008 and an Outstanding Research achievement award from USF in 2004. He was past president of NAFIPS, former vice president for membership of the SMC society, the president of the IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics society for 2006 - 2007 year. Dr. Hall was the Editor-In-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Part B between 2002 - 2005. He served as the first Vice President for Publications of the IEEE Biometrics Council. He is currently on the IEEE Publications Services and Products Board and chairs its Strategic Planning Committee and the IEEE PCC for 2014 - 2015 year. He is a member of IEEE PRAC, and is on the Editorial board of IEEE Access, associate editor for IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, International Journal of Intelligent Data Analysis, the International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence and International Journal of Approximate Reasoning.

Research Interests

His research interests lie in distributed machine learning, data mining, pattern recognition and integrating AI into image processing. The exploitation of imprecision with the use of fuzzy logic in pattern recognition, AI and learning is a research theme.

Teaching Interests

Data mining; machine learning; operating systems; artificial intelligence; analysis of algorithms; programming

Education

PhD in Computer Science, Florida State University (1986)
MS in Mathematics - Computer Science Option, Florida State University (1982)
BS in Applied Mathematics, Florida Institute of Technology (1980)

Honors and Awards

Visiting Distinguished Professor - University of Technology, Sydney (2015)
AAAS Fellow (2013)
IEEE SMC Society Norbert Wiener Award (2012)
Honorable Mention Best paper IEEE ICDM Workshop on Data Mining Case Studies (2011)
International Association of Pattern Recognition Fellow (2010)
IEEE SMC Society award for Outstanding Contributions (1997, 2000, 2008)
Research Faculty Mentor of the year USF McNair Program (2006)
Outstanding Research Contribution USF (2004)
IEEE Fellow (2003)
NAFIPS Outstanding Contribution K.S. Fu Award (1998)
Outstanding Young Researcher in the College of Engineering (1991)

Key Activities

On the IEEE Publications Services and Products Board and chairs its Strategic Planning Committee (2015 - 2016)
On the IEEE Publications Services and Products Board and chairs its IEEE PCC (2014 - 2015)
Member of IEEE PRAC
Editorial board of IEEE Access, associate editor for IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, International Journal of Intelligent Data Analysis, and the International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence and International Journal of Approximate Reasoning