Beatrice Lazzerini
University of Pisa
Department of Information Engineering
Via Diotisalvi 2
56122 Pisa
Italy
+39 050 2217 558
b.lazzerini@iet.unipi.it
Beatrice Lazzerini is a Full Professor at the Faculty of Engineering of the
University of Pisa, Italy. She teaches "Knowledge Engineering and Expert
Systems" and "Decision Support Intelligent Systems".
She is President
of the Specialized Laurea Degree in “Computer Engineering for Enterprise
Management”. Her main research interests lie in the area of knowledge
engineering, with particular emphasis on fuzzy systems, neural networks and
evolutionary computation. She has co-authored seven books and has published
over 130 papers in international journals and conferences. She is
co-editor of the books “Knowledge-Based Intelligent Techniques in Character
Recognition”, CRC Press, 1999, and “Innovations in ART Neural Networks”,
Physica-Verlag, 2000.
She was involved in several national and international research projects.
She was project manager of the European Communities Industrial RTD
Project 25254 – INTESA: “Development and performance evaluation of
processing techniques based on neural networks and fuzzy logic paradigms,
for knowledge extraction from sensor arrays data. Application to olfactory
sensor data processing”.