Ayman Mansour

a Ph.D. student in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, placed second in the Best Student Paper Competition at the 2012 North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society Conference held in Berkeley, Calif., August 5-8, 2012. The title of his winning paper was "Identifying Adverse Drug Reaction Signal Pairs by a Multi-Agent Intelligent System with Fuzzy Decision Model," which was part of his Ph.D. research. Mansour's dissertation research addressed a significant real-world medical problem - early identification of unknown adverse drug reactions, which causes thousands of deaths a year in the U.S. His innovative approach uses distributed artificial intelligence via computer network. The co-authors of the paper include Mansour's advisor Hao Ying, two physicians (Peter Dews and Michael Massanari), and Yanqing Ji, an associate professor at Gonzaga University and WSU alumnus who studied with Professor Ying. Mansour is a member of the IEEE Honor Society (HKN), Tau Beta Pi Honor Society, and Golden Key Honor Society.