VENUE: School of Computing, DCU.
Russell C. Eberhart is the Chair and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Purdue School of Engineering and Technology, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI). He received his Ph.D. from Kansas State University in electrical engineering. He is co-editor of a book on neural networks, and co-author of Computational Intelligence PC Tools, published in 1996 by Academic Press. He is co-author of a book with Jim Kennedy and Yuhui Shi entitled Swarm Intelligence, published by Morgan Kaufmann/Academic Press in April 2001. He is Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation. He was awarded the IEEE Third Millenium Medal. In 2001, he became a Fellow of the IEEE, and in 2002 he became a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering. He holds four United States patents. He is the co-author, with Yuhui Shi, of a book entitled Computational Intelligence: Concepts to Implementations, to be published in 2005 by Morgan Kaufmann/ Academic Press.