On June 1, 2008, the Computational Intelligence Society (CIS) of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE) met to elect its new officers to lead the society. IEEE is the world’s largest professional organization with 375,000 members worldwide. CIS, one of 38 technical societies, with 6,500 members is devoted to promote all computational and theoretical aspects of mimicking nature for problem solving. Professor Gary G. Yen from School of Electrical and Computer Engineering is elected to serve as President Elect in 2009 and President in 2010-2011.

Before joined OSU in 1997, he was with the Structure Control Division, U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory in Albuquerque, New Mexico. His research at OSU was supported by the DoD, DoE, EPA, NASA, NSF, and a Process Industry consortium. His research interest includes intelligent control, computational intelligence, conditional health monitoring, complex network, signal processing and their industrial/defense applications. Dr. Yen chaired the 2006 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence held in Vancouver, Canada in which over 1500 attendees participating the event. He is the founding editor-in-chief of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine since 2006. He has published two books, 16 book chapters, 65 peer-reviewed journal articles and over 120 conference papers.