George Lendaris, an Emiratus Professor of Systems Science and Electrical and Computer Engineering at Portland State University, was named a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 1983 for developing and implementing sampled optical diffraction patterns for image analysis.
He is also a Fellow of the International Neural Network Society. 
He received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. His research interests focus on Computational Intelligence and Fuzzy Logic.