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Asim Roy

Asim Roy

Professor
Information Systems

Department
Contact
Office:BA 304E
Mailing Address:
Main Campus
PO BOX 874606
Tempe, AZ 85287-4606

Phone: 480-965-6324
Fax: 480-727-0881
Email: Asim.Roy@asu.edu

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Personal Website

Education
Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin, 1979; M.S., Case Western Reserve University, 1977; B.E., University of Calcutta, 1971

Research Areas
Theories of the brain, brain-like learning, neural networks, machine learning, data mining, pattern recognition, prediction and forecasting, intelligent systems, models of cognition and nonlinear multiple objective optimization

Academic Positions
Arizona State University: 1983-present. Previous Appointments: Stanford University; University of Nebraska, Omaha; Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee

Career and Professional Awards; Teaching Awards
Listed in Who's Who in America, 2000-present; Listed in Who's Who in American Education, 2003-2007; Listed in Who's Who in the World, 1987-2008

Professional Leadership
Governing Board Member, International Neural Network Society (INNS), 2012 -; Founder & Chair, INNS Special Interest Group on Autonomous Machine Learning, 2009 - present; International Advisory Board, International Neural Network Society (INNS)-India; Scientific Advisory Board, Lifeboat Foundation (a think tank), 2008 – present;

Editorial Board Member, Neural Networks and Neural Information Processing - Letters and Reviews; Guest Editor-in-Chief, Special Issue of Neural Networks on Autonomous Learning;Letters Editor, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, 2000-2004; Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, 1996-1999; Editorial Board Member, Applied Intelligence, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1996 - 2006; Editorial Board Member, The International Journal of Computational Intelligence and  Organizations, Lawrence Erlbaum and Associates, 1995-1997; 

Eduardo R. CAIANIELLO Lecture, Annual Meeting of the Italian Neural Network Society, Italy, 2011; Plenary Speaker, Artificial Neural Networks in Engineering (ANNIE) 2008;

General Chairman, ORSA/TIMS Joint National Meeting, Phoenix, 1993; Program Chair, ORSA/TIMS Joint National Meeting, Las Vegas, 1990;

Professor Finally Publishes Controversial Brain Theory http://www.physorg.com/news146319784.html

Do brain cells need to be connected to have meaning?” http://phys.org/news273783154.html

Corporate and Public Sector Leadership
Manager, Optimization Center, Execucom Systems Corporation, 1981-1982; Planning Consultant, Execucom Systems Corporation, 1979-1981

Representative Publications

Roy, A. 2012. “A theory of the brain: localist representation is used widely in the brain.” Front. Psychology, 3:551. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00551

http://www.frontiersin.org/Journal/FullText.aspx?s=196&name=cognitive_science&ART_DOI=10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00551

Pat Mackin, Asim Roy, Jyrki Wallenius. 2011. "An Interactive Weight Space Reduction Procedure for Nonlinear Multiple Objective Mathematical Programming." Mathematical Programming, Vol. 127, No. 2, pp. 425-444, April 2011.

Seiichi Ozawa, Asim Roy, Dmitri Roussinov. 2009. “A Multi-Tasking Learning Model for Online Pattern Recognition.” IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, Vol. 20, No. 3, pp. 430-445, March 2009.

Roy, A. 2008, Patrick Mackin, Jyrki Wallenius, James Corner, Mark Keith, Gregory Schmick and Hina Arora. "An Interactive Search Method Based on User Preferences." Decision Analysis (an INFORMS journal), Vol. 5, No. 4, pp. 203-229, Dec. 2008.

Roy, A. 2008. "Connectionism, controllers and a brain theory." IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Part A.  Vol. 38, No. 6, pp. 1434-1441. November 2008.

Roy, A. 2000. "On Connectionism, Rule Extraction and Brain-like Learning." IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, Vol. 8, No. 2, pp. 222-227. 


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CIS 105 - Computer Appls&Info Technology
Introduces business information systems from a business intelligence perspective and the uses of application software with emphasis on database and spreadsheet packages for efficient and effective problem solving.

CIS 394 - Special Topics
Covers topics of immediate or special interest to a faculty member and students.

SCM 541 - Logistics in the Supply Chain
Critical issues for customer perception of supply chain performance, including inventory planning, transportation, warehousing, information technology, and integrated logistics service.

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