John Yen

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John Yen is a professor in the College of Information Sciences and Technology at Pennsylvania State University. He is the Professor in Charge of the College of IST, and the Director of the Intelligent Agents Laboratory there.

Yen's long-term research interest is the capturing and modeling of human knowledge in software agents for supporting decision making, for improving the productivity and adaptibility of global enterprises, and for supporting individual and team learning in the digital information age.

Yen has been a Principal investigator or co-Principal investigator of several multi-million-dollar research projects on intelligent agents. Sponsors of his research projects include National Science Foundation, Army Research Laboratory, and Office of Naval Research.

Yen received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from University of California, Berkeley in 1986. His thesis advisor is Prof. Lotfi A. Zadeh, the father of fuzzy logic. Between 1986 and 1989, he was the main architect at USC Information Sciences Institute (ISI) for an AI architecture that pioneers a knowledge-level integration of a descriptive logic knowledge representation scheme with production rules. Before joining IST in 2001, he was a Professor of Computer Science and the Director of Center for Fuzzy Logic, Robotics, and Intelligent Systems at Texas A&M University. He was the Vice President of Publication for IEEE Neural Networks Council, now IEEE Computational Intelligence Society. Yen received the NSF Young Investigator Award in 1992. He is a Fellow of IEEE. He is currently the Chair of IEEE FIPA Working Group on Human Agent Communications.