NEGNEVITSKY, Michael 1956-

PERSONAL: Born September 14, 1956, in Minsk, USSR (now Belarus); son of Vladimir (an electrical engineer) and Bella (a university lecturer) Negnevitsky; married Svetlana Feldman, August 2, 1986; children: Vlad. Ethnicity: "Jewish." Education: Belorussian University of Technology, B.E.E. (with first class honors), 1978, Ph.D., 1983; Central Institute for Further Training of Managerial Staff and National Economic Specialists in the Field of Patenting, M.B.A., 1988. Religion: Jewish. Hobbies and other interests: Travel, reading.

ADDRESSES: Home—6 Ruth Dr., Lenah Valley, Hobart, Tasmania 7008, Australia. Offıce—School of Engineering, University of Tasmania, G.P.O. Box 252-65, Hobart, Tasmania 7001, Australia; fax: 61-3-6226-7247. E-mail—michael.negnevitsky@utas.edu.au.

CAREER: Belorussian University of Technology, Minsk, USSR (now Belarus), senior research fellow and senior lecturer in electrical and electronic engineering, 1984-91; Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, senior research associate in electrical and computer system engineering, 1992; University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, lecturer, 1993-95, senior lecturer, 1996-2001, associate professor of engineering, 2002—. Scientific and Research Business Corp., Minsk, head of Power System Control Research Laboratory, 1989-91; member of Australian Technical Committee on Electromagnetic Compatibility and Australasian Committee for Power Engineering; holder of four patents for inventions.

MEMBER: Institution of Engineers of Australia (Electrical College), Institution of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (United States), Power Engineering Society, New York Academy of Sciences.

AWARDS, HONORS: Named "inventor of the USSR," Soviet Council of Ministers Board for Invention and Discovery Affairs, 1987.

WRITINGS:

Artificial Intelligence: A Guide to Intelligent Systems, Addison Wesley Longman (Boston, MA), 2002.

Author of a shorter work in Russian on the restoration of power systems after large blackouts, 2nd edition published in Moscow, 1991. Contributor to books, including Applications of Artificial Intelligence in Engineering, Computational Mechanics Publications (Southampton, England), Volume 11, edited by R. A. Adey, G. Rzevski, and A. K. Sunol, 1996, Volume 12, edited by R. A. Adey, G. Rzevski, and R. Teti, 1997, Volume 13, edited by R. A. Adey, G. Rzevski, and P. Nolan, 1998; Neuro-Fuzzy Techniques for Intelligent Information Systems, edited by N. Kasabov and R. Kozma, Physica-Verlag (New York, NY), 1999; and Information Systems Evaluation Management, edited by Wim van Grembergen, IRM Press (Hershey, PA), 2002. Contributor to scientific journals.