Applied Artificial Higher Order Neural Networks for Control and Recognition

Ming Zhang received a M.S. degree in information processing and a Ph.D. degree in the research area of computer vision from the East China Normal University, Shanghai, China, in 1982 and 1989, respectively. He held Postdoctoral Fellowships in artificial neural networks with the Shanghai Institute of Technical Physics, Chinese Academy of the Sciences in 1989 and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, USA National Research Council in 1991. He was a face recognition airport security system project manager and was a Ph.D. co-supervisor at the University of Wollongong, Australia in 1992. Since 1994, he has been a lecturer at the Monash University, Australia. From 1995 to 1999, he was a lecturer and a senior lecturer and a Ph.D. supervisor at the University of Western Sydney, Australia. He also held a Senior Research Associate Fellowship in artificial neural networks with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, USA National Research Council in 1999. Since 2000, he has been an associate professor at Christopher Newport University, VA, USA. He is currently a full Professor and a graduate student supervisor in computer science at the Christopher Newport University, VA, USA.