Lawrence O. Hall

LAWRENCE O. HALL is a Distinguished University Professor and Associate Dean of Research in the Bellini College of Artificial Intelligence, Cybersecurity and Computing at the University of South Florida and co-Director of the Institute for Artificial Intelligence + X. He received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Florida State University (1986) and a B.S. in Applied Mathematics from Florida Institute of Technology (1980). He is a fellow of the IEEE, AAAS, AIMBE, IAPR, and AAIA. He received the 2021 Fuzzy Pioneer award from the IEEE CI Society. He received the Norbert Wiener award in 2012 and the Joseph Wohl award in 2017 from the IEEE SMC Society. He was the IEEE VP Publications 2021-2. He is a past President of the IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics Society, former EIC of what is now the IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics. His research interests lie in learning from big data, distributed machine learning, medical image understanding, bioinformatics, pattern recognition, modeling imprecision in decision making, and integrating AI into image processing. His work has been cited over 67,000 times per Google Scholar with an H-index of 69. He did early work showing that unsupervised fuzzy clustering could be combined with a knowledge-based approach to segment brain tumors in an explainable manner. With labeled data, he has done work to learn good models of medical images from small data. Current work is on the generalizability and stability of deep learning systems with applications in medicine. He has also done work with imbalanced data.