Caro Lucas

Caro Lucas (1949 to 2010) was an Iranian Armenian scientist and electrical engineer whose work spanned biological computing, computational intelligence, fuzzy systems, neural networks, multiagent systems, swarm intelligence, data mining and general design theory. Born in Isfahan into an Armenian family and raised in Tehran, he took an M.Sc. in electrical and control engineering at the University of Tehran in 1973 and a doctorate at the University of California, Berkeley in 1976. He became a professor and founding director of the Center of Excellence for Control and Intelligent Processing at the University of Tehran, chaired its electrical and computer engineering department, and directed the school of intelligent systems at the Institute for Studies in Theoretical Physics and Mathematics. He wrote or co-wrote hundreds of conference and journal papers and held a patent for a speaker independent Persian isolated word neurorecognizer. He was honored as an Eternal Figure by the Iranian Science and Culture Hall of Fame and died in 2010.