Yen received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from University of California, Berkeley in 1986. His thesis advisor was 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.
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