Donald C. Wunsch

Donald Wunsch is the M.K.. Finley Missouri Distinguished Professor at Missouri University of Science & Technology.

Earlier employers were: Texas Tech, Boeing, Rockwell International, and International Laser Systems. Education: Executive MBA - Washington University in St. Louis, Ph.D., Electrical Engineering - University of Washington (Seattle), M.S., Applied Mathematics (same institution), B.S., Applied Mathematics - University of New Mexico. Key research contributions are: Adaptive resonance and reinforcement learning hardware and applications; Neurofuzzy regression; Traveling Salesman Problem heuristics; Clustering; and Bioinformatics. He is an IEEE Fellow and previous INNS President, INNS Fellow and Senior Fellow 07 - present, and IJCNN General Chair, and on the Boards of the IEEE Neural Net Council, International Neural Networks Society, and the University of Missouri Bioinformatics Consortium.

He travels extensively and has eclectic tastes in reading, music and cuisine. He enjoys amateur photography, swimming and tae-kwon-do; as well as activities with his immediate and extended family.