Prof.Xin Yao

Xin Yao is a Chair Professor of Computer Science at the Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech), Shenzhen, China, and a part-time Professor of Computer Science at the University of Birmingham, UK. He is an IEEE Fellow and was a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (CIS). He served as the President (2014-15) of IEEE CIS and the Editor-in-Chief (2003-08) of IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation. His major research interests include evolutionary computation, neural network ensemble learning, multi-objective learning, and search-based software engineering. His work won the 2001 IEEE Donald G. Fink Prize Paper Award; 2010, 2016 and 2017 IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation Outstanding Paper Awards; 2011 IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks Outstanding Paper Award; 2010 BT Gordon Radley Award for Best Author of Innovation (Finalist); and other best paper awards at conferences. He received a 2012 Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award, the 2013 IEEE CIS Evolutionary Computation Pioneer Award and the 2020 IEEE Frank Rosenblatt Award.

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