Rate My Professor Bart Kosko

Kosko's research interests center on neural and fuzzy systems, with seminal contributions including fuzzy cognitive maps (1986, over 5,800 citations) and bidirectional associative memories (1988). He has published influential books such as Neural Networks and Fuzzy Systems (Prentice-Hall, 1991), Fuzzy Engineering (Prentice-Hall, 1996), Fuzzy Thinking (Hyperion, 1993), Noise (Viking, 2006), Heaven in a Chip (Three Rivers Press, 2000), as well as recent works including Nanotime (Lume Books, 2019) and Cool Earth (Lume Books, 2020). He edited Neural Networks for Signal Processing (Prentice-Hall, 1991) and Intelligent Signal Processing with S. Haykin (IEEE Press, 2001). His publication record includes nearly 100 technical articles, such as recent papers on bidirectional backpropagation, noise-boosted recurrent backpropagation, and causal feedback fuzzy cognitive maps. Kosko has received the 2022 Hebb Award for neural learning from the International Neural Network Society, IEEE Fellowship for contributions to neural and fuzzy systems, fellowships from the INNS and International Fuzzy Systems Association, and best paper awards from IJCNN-2017, NAFIPS-2020, and NAFIPS-2021. A member of the USC Signal and Image Processing Institute and the USC Program in Neural, Informational, and Behavioral Sciences, he continues to influence the field through innovative research and teaching.