1. IEEE CIS DLP Sub-comittee CIS Distinguished Lecturer Program Chair, Pau-Choo (Julia) Chung

2. DLP Committee Members Chair: Pau-Choo (Julia) Chung Committee: Robert Kozma, operation manual Simon M. Lucas, website update Jerry Mendel, media repository for video recording Nikhil R. Pal, tracking DLP report Dipti Srinivasan, liaison with local chapters & webinar Lipo Wang, publicity

3. Approved DLP Speeches Speaker Chapter Chair Invited Chapter Topic Date of speech Gary Yen Yi Zhang IEEE CIS CHENGDU CHAPTER Evolutionary Multi-objective Optimization-constrained and uncertainty handling performance metrics 2013/2/18 Jose C. Principe Bin LiCIS Hefei Chapter Somatosensory BMIs and Information Theoretic Signal Processing 2013/3/14 -15 James Bezdek Amit Kumar IEEE CIS Hyderabad Chapter Anomaly Detection in Wireless Sensor Networks: Visual Assessment and Clustering for Environmental Monitoring 2013/7/10 Xin Yao Doris Sáez Hueichapan IEEE-CIS Chilean Chapter Co-Evolution, Games and Social Behaviors 2013/11/21

4. Approved DLP Speeches Speaker Chapter Chair Invited Chapter Topic Date of speech Kay Chen Tan Damien Coyle IEEE CIS UKRI Chapter Advances in Evolutionary Multi-objective Optimization 2013/6/6 Gary Fogel Corns Steven St. Louis Chapter A Survey of Applications and Future Directions of Computational Intelligence. 2013/5/2 Nikola Kasabov Marley Vellasco IEEE RIO Chapter Spiking Neural Networks: Methods and Tools Applications 2013/4/29 Derong Liu Cristian Rodriguez Rivero IEEE CIS Argentina Chapter Adaptive Dynamic Programming for Learning Control 2013/9/12 Jennie Si Derong Liu IEEE CIS Beijing Chapter Spike computing for cognitive control 2013/7/19

5. Approve 9 DL Trips (the budget used $15,800, remaining budget $4,200) Simplification of nomination process Revision of DLP Charter Web site updating Copyright of DLP recording Establish DLP facebook and Linkedin (https://www.facebook.com/IeeeCisDLP ) ( http://www.linkedin.com/groups/IEEE-CIS- Distinguished-Lecturers-Program-4944503?home=&gid=4944503&trk=anet_ug_hm )https://www.facebook.com/IeeeCisDLP http://www.linkedin.com/groups/IEEE-CIS- Distinguished-Lecturers-Program-4944503?home=&gid=4944503&trk=anet_ug_hm Design DLP report template Completed Activities

6. Tasks To Be Completed (after June) Nominate 2014 DLP speakers Improve DLP social group in facebook and Linkedin Arrange webinar talk Approve DL speeches Design the on-line DLP application and report submission Finalize operation manual Establish media repository

7. Motion by DLP Subcommittee Move to (1) add a new paragraph in the end of Subsection III/1; (2) add CV to DL nomination package in Subsection III/2; and (3) add new calendar in Section IV Section III. Distinguished Lecturer Selection, Appointment, and Retirement 1. DL Selection Criteria..... D. Balanced Representation “The committee shall evaluate the relevant values and merits of each nominee using both qualitative and quantitative evidence. The quantitative measures indicated in section III.1 are part of the input to be considered by the committee. Other criteria include, but are not limited to, qualitative assessments of the nominees work, geographical lecturer distribution requirements, or the need to include lecture topics that would not be, otherwise, well represented. The committee may consider exceptions to these criteria on a case by case basis.” Note: This is to highlight that despite of the quantitative measures specified in the Charter, a complete in deep evaluation from various perspective considerations should be performed. 2. Distinguished Lecturer Nomination The nomination package should include the following: (i).. (ii)… (iii) complete CV containing publications, invited talks, keynotes, and plenary talks;(iv) google scholar profile. Note: In order to simplify the nomination process only the Google Scholar profile is requested, but as stated above in Subsection III/1 the committee will assess each nominee using diverse qualitative and quantitative evidences. IV. DLP Time Table July 1 Nomination period begins August 30 Submission deadline of DLP nominations

8. Motion by DLP Subcommittee Increase 8K budget for 4 DLP trips 1: required for combination with CIS education with video recording 2: combined with webinar talk