Dr. Adlassnig was a postdoctoral research fellow with Professor Lotfi A. Zadeh at the Computer Science Division at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences of the University of California at Berkeley, U.S.A., from 1984–86. He received his Venia docendi for Medical Informatics from the University of Vienna in 1988 and became Professor of Medical Informatics in 1992. In 1987, he received the Federal State Prize for excellent research in the area of rheumatology, awarded by the Austrian Federal Ministry for Health and Environmental Protection. From 1988–2015, he was head of the Section on Medical Expert and Knowledge-Based Systems at the Department of Medical Computer Sciences of the University of Vienna Medical School (now: Section for Artificial Intelligence and Decision Support at the Center for Medical Statistics, Informatics, and Intelligent Systems, Medical University of Vienna). In 2014, he has been elected to Fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics (ACMI), and in 2018 to Fellow of the International Academy of Health Sciences Informatics (IAHSI).

Prof. Adlassnig was a Visiting Professor at the Department of Medicine, Section on Medical Informatics, at the Stanford University Medical Center, U.S.A., in summer 1993, and a guest lecturer and guest professor at the Department of Electrical and Biomedical Engineering in the Technical University of Graz, Austria, from 1994 to 2004. He spent the summer 2000 as a visiting scholar at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, Computer Science Division, Berkeley Initiative in Soft Computing (BISC), University of California, Berkeley, U.S.A., May 2005 as guest researcher at the Department of Computer Science, Meiji University, Kawasaki, Japan, and September 2008 as visiting scientist at the Clinical Decision Making Group, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge/U.S.A.

From 2002 to 2016, Prof. Adlassnig was the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal “Artificial Intelligence in Medicine”, Elsevier Science Publishers B.V., and was the director of the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Expert Systems and Quality Management in Medicine from 2002 until 2005. He is co-founder, CEO, and Scientific Head of Medexter Healthcare GmbH (www.medexter.com), a company established to broadly disseminate intelligent medical systems with clinically proven usefulness. Since its inception in 2002, Medexter succeeded in establishing technical platforms and clinical decision support systems for a number of academic, commercial, and clinical institutions.

Prof. Adlassnig’s research interests focus on computer applications in medicine, especially medical expert and knowledge-based as well as clinical decision support systems and their integration into medical information and web-based health care systems. Prof. Adlassnig is highly interested in formal theories of uncertainty, particularly in fuzzy set theory, fuzzy logic, fuzzy control, and related areas. He is equally interested in the theory and practice of computer systems in medicine. Prof. Klaus-Peter Adlassnig’s sphere of interest includes various aspects of the philosophy of science, particularly the state and future impact of artificial intelligence.

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