Lotfi A. Zadeh Scientist

Lotfali Askar Zadeh (/ˈzɑːdeɪ/; Azerbaijani: Lütfəli Rəhimoğlu Əsgərzadə; born February 4, 1921), better known as Lotfi A. Zadeh, is a mathematician, electrical engineer, computer scientist, artificial intelligence researcher and professor emeritus of computer science at the University of California, Berkeley. He is best known for proposing the fuzzy mathematics consisting of those fuzzy related concepts: fuzzy sets, fuzzy logic, fuzzy algorithms, fuzzy semantics, fuzzy languages, fuzzy control, fuzzy systems, fuzzy probabilities, fuzzy events, and fuzzy information.

Personal facts

Birth date	February 04, 1921
Birth name	Lotfi Aliaskerzadeh
Birth place	Baku , Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic
Education	Columbia University University of Tehran
Known for	Fuzzy logic Fuzzy set Z-transform Fuzzy mathematics

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awards	Association for Computing Machinery IEEE Medal of Honor
doctoral student	Joseph Goguen
Field of study	Artificial intelligence Electrical engineering Mathematics