Interview with Ron Yager, 2016: CIS Oral History Project

Ronald R. Yager, Director of the Machine Intelligence Institute and a Professor of information systems with Iona College, and Lecturer with the NATO Advanced Study Institutes, Life IEEE Fellow, 2016 Frank Rosenblatt Award, CIS Fuzzy Pioneer Award. He was with the National Science Foundation as a Program Director in the information sciences program, NASA/Stanford Visiting Fellow and a Research Associate with the University of California, Berkeley. He has worked in the area of machine intelligence for more than 25 years, focusing in areas related to fuzzy sets, decision-making under uncertainty, and the fusion of information. He was also the recipient of the honorary doctorates from the Azerbaijan Technical University, the State University of Information Technologies, Sofia Bulgaria, and the Rostov on the Don University, Rostov-on-Don, Russia. He is a Fellow of the New York Academy of Sciences and the Fuzzy Systems Association. He is an Editor-and-Chief for the International Journal of Intelligent Systems. He serves on the editorial board of numerous technology journals