INVITED TALKS

1. “Granular Machine Learning Methods for Biomedical Data Classification,” the Computational Systems Biology Lab, University of Georgia, Athens, Sept. 4, 2008.

2. “Granular Machine Learning in Bioinformatics,” College of Software, Nankai University, Tianjin, China, June 27, 2007.

3. “Granular Data Mining for Meaningful Gene Selection from Microarray Expression Data,” Institute of System Biology, Shanghai University, Shanghai, China, June 15, 2007.

4. “Granular Neural Networks and Human Brains for Pattern Recognition,” The WICI International Workshop on Web Intelligence (WI) meets Brain  Informatics (BI) (WImBI 2006), Beijing, China, Dec. 15-16, 2006.

5. “Computational Intelligence for Web Intelligence and Bioinformatics,” Computational Intelligence Lab at the School of Computer Science and Engineering at University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China, Aug. 2, 2005.

6. “Computational Web Intelligence and Granular Web Intelligence for Web Uncertainty,” IEEE-GrC 2005, Beijing, China, July 25-27, 2005.

7. “Computational Web Intelligence for Wired and Wireless Applications,” the College of Software, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China, May 25, 2004.

8. Invited Speaker and Panelist in Session on Bioinformatics of 2003 BISC FLINT-CIBI INTERNATIONAL JOINT WORKSHOP ON SOFT COMPUTING FOR INTERNET AND BIOINFORMATICS, University of California at Berkeley, Dec. 17, 2003.

9. “Technology Outlook,” Atlanta Chapter of IEEE Computer Society, at BellSouth Center, Atlanta, Feb. 26, 2003.

10. “Computational Web Intelligence on Wired and Mobile Wireless Networks,” The School of Computer and Software Engineering of Southern Polytechnic State University, Marietta, March 17, 2003.

11. The plenary talk on “Computational Web Intelligence: Intelligent Technology on Wired and Wireless Networks” at the Second International Workshop on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications (ISDA'02) and the Second International Conference on Neural, Parallel & Scientific Computations, Tulsa, Aug. 7, 2002.

12. The seminar on “Granular Neural Networks for Numerical-Linguistic Data Fusion and Data Mining” in the Department of Computing at Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, January 9, 2002.

13. The seminar on “Computational Intelligence Agents for Wired and Wireless Applications” in the Department of Computing at Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, Dec. 20, 2001.