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Lotfi A. Zadeh
American electrical engineer and computer scientist (1921–2017)
Details
- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 4 February 1921
- Died
- 6 September 2017
- Place of death
- Berkeley
- Sex or gender
- male
- Given name
- Lotfi
- Family name
- Zadeh
- Child
- Norm Zada
- Field of work
- fuzzy logic, fuzzy set, artificial intelligence, mathematics, computer science and engineering
- Occupation
- mathematician, engineer, computer scientist, university teacher
- Citizenship
- Soviet Union, Pahlavi Iran, United States
- Awards
- Guggenheim Fellowship, Friendship Order, Nizami Ganjavi Gold Medal, IEEE Fellow, Kampé de Fériet Award, IEEE James H. Mulligan, Jr. Education Medal, Eringen Medal, honorary doctor of Toulouse-III University, AAAI Fellow, IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal, Rufus Oldenburger Medal, ACM Fellow
- academic degree
- Doctor of Philosophy
- doctoral advisor
- John R. Ragazzini
- doctoral student
- John Yen, Joseph Amadee Goguen, Pravin Varaiya, Jonathan King Tash, Christian Freksa, Keith Bradley Vanderveen, Michael Harvey Smith, Ralph Peter Sobek, Soumitra Dutta, Lung Albert Chen, Chuen-Chien Lee, Michael Harris Cohen
- educated at
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science, University of Tehran, Columbia University, Alborz High School
- Erdős number
- 3
- languages spoken, written or signed
- English, Azerbaijani, Persian
- member of
- Polish Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, Association for Computing Machinery
- name in native language
- Lütfəli Rəhim oğlu Əsgərzadə
- notable work
- fuzzy set
- place of burial
- Alley of Honor
- professorship
- professor
- residence
- United States
- student
- Joseph Amadee Goguen
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