Position:  Vice Chair, Career Activities

 

Dr. Krzysztof  J. Cios is a Professor at the University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center. Dr. Cios serves as Associate Director of the University of Colorado Bioenergetics Institute. He also directs the Data Mining and Bioinformatics Laboratory.  Dr. Cios is a well-known researcher in the areas of machine learning, biomedical informatics and data mining. NASA, NSF, American Heart Association, Ohio Aerospace Institute, NATO, Colorado Institute of Technology, US Air Force, NIH, and Microsoft have funded his research.

 

Dr. Cios has published 2 books, over 50 journal articles, 12 book chapters, and over 60 peer-reviewed conference papers. He serves on editorial boards of Neurocomputing, IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Magazine, International Journal of Computational Intelligence, and Integrative Neuroscience.

 

Dr. Cios has been the recipient of the Norbert Wiener Outstanding Paper Award, the Neurocomputing Best Paper Award, the University of Toledo Outstanding Faculty Research Award, and the Fulbright Senior Scholar Award. He received his Ph.D. from the AGH University of Science and Technology, Krakow, MBA from the University of Toledo, Ohio, and D.Sc. degree from the Polish Academy of Sciences. He is a senior member of the IEEE, ACM, AAAI, Sigma Xi, and PIASA. He is a founder and Chair of the Computational Intelligence Society Chapter of the IEEE Denver section. In 2004 Dr. Cios was elected a Foreign Member of the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences.