Lawrence (Larry) Hall, Ph.D.

Professor, Deparment of Computer Science and Engineering, University of South Florida

Lawrence O. Hall is a Distinguished University Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at University of South Florida. He served as Dept. Chair from 2008-2015. In the Fall of 2015 he was the Melchor Visiting Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering and Distinguished Fellow of the Notre Dame Institute for Advanced Study at the University of Notre Dame. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Florida State University in 1986 and a B.S. in Applied Mathematics from the Florida Institute of Technology in 1980. He is a fellow of the IEEE. He is a fellow of the AAAS, IAPR and the American Institute for Medical and Biomedical Engineering. He is a member of the National Academy of Inventors. He received the Norbert Wiener award in 2012 from the IEEE SMC Society. He received the Joseph G. Wohl award in 2017 from the IEEE SMC Society. He was named the 2017 Theodore and Venette Askounes-Ashford Distinguished Scholar Award winner at USF. His research interests lie in distributed machine learning, extreme data mining, bioinformatics, pattern recognition and integrating AI into image processing. The exploitation of imprecision with the use of fuzzy logic in pattern recognition, AI and learning is a research theme. He has done research on fuzzy clustering, deep learning in medical imaging, scalable clustering and semi-supervised learning with clustering. He has authored or co-authored over 85 publications in journals, as well as many conference papers and book chapters. He has received over $5.3M in research funding from agencies such as the National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, Department of Energy (DOE), NASA, DARPA, etc.

He is a past president of NAFIPS. The former vice president for membership of the SMC society. He was the President of the IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics society for 2006-7. He was the Editor-In-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Part B, 2002- 05. He served as the first Vice President for Publications of the IEEE Biometrics Council. He is currently on the IEEE Publications Services and Products Board and chairs its Finance Committee. He is a member of the IEEE Finance committee. He is a past member of the IEEE Periodicals Committee and the IEEE periodicals review and advisory committee. He is on the Editorial board of IEEE Access, an Associate Editor for the International Journal of Intelligent Data Analysis, the International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence and International Journal of Approximate Reasoning.