Lawrence O. Hall is Associate Dean of Research and Distinguished University Professor in the Bellini College of Artificial Intelligence, Cybersecurity and Computing at the University of South Florida and the co-Director of the Institute for Artificial Intelligence + X. He received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Florida State University (1986) and a B.S. in Applied Mathematics from Florida Institute of Technology (1980). He was the 2021-22 IEEE Vice President for Publications, Products and Services. He is a fellow of the IEEE, AAAS, AIMBE, IAPR, and AAIA. His research group received the first IJCAI/JAIR test of time award in 2026. He received the 2021 Fuzzy Pioneer award from the IEEE CI Society. He received the Norbert Wiener award in 2012 and the Joseph Wohl award in 2017 from the IEEE SMC Society. He is a past President of the IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics Society, former EIC of what is now the IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics. He is on the editorial board of the Proceedings of the IEEE. His research interests lie in learning stable models from data, distributed machine learning, AI for medical image understanding, bioinformatics, pattern recognition, and modeling imprecision in decision making. He continues to explore un and semi-supervised learning using scalable fuzzy approaches. His work has been cited over 74,000 times per Google Scholar. He did early work showing that unsupervised fuzzy clustering could be combined with a knowledge-based approach to segment brain tumors in an explainable manner. He has worked on scalable methods for fuzzy clustering and an evolutionary algorithm approach to optimizing fuzzy clusters. With labeled data, he has done work to learn good models of medical images from small data. Current work is with VLM's and approaches to generalizable image understanding. He has also done work with imbalanced data.