Rui Xu, PhD, is a Research Associate in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Missouri University of Science and Technology. His research interests include computational intelligence, machine learning, data mining, neural networks, pattern classification, clustering, and bioinformatics. Dr. Xu is a member of the IEEE, the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (CIS), and Sigma Xi.
Donald C. Wunsch II, PhD, is the M.K. Finley Missouri Distinguished Professor at Missouri University of Science and Technology. His key contributions are in adaptive resonance and reinforcement learning hardware and applications, neurofuzzy regression, improved Traveling Salesman Problem heuristics, clustering, and bioinformatics. He is an IEEE Fellow, the 2005 International Neural Networks Society (INNS) President, and Senior Fellow of the INNS.