Autor: Siang Yew Chong

Xin Yao is Tong Tin Sun Chair Professor of Machine Learning at Lingnan University, Hong Kong SAR and IEEE Fellow. His research interests include Evolutionary Computation, Ensemble Learning, and Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence. He is a recipient of 2001 IEEE Donald G. Fink Prize Paper Award, 2010, 2016 and 2017 IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation and 2011 IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks Outstanding Paper Awards, 2012 Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award, 2013 IEEE CIS Evolutionary Computation Pioneer Award, and 2020 IEEE Frank Rosenblatt Award. He obtained his Ph D in 1990 from the University of Science and Technology of China. Siang Yew Chong is Research Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, and Pengcheng Peacock Scholar under Shenzhen Municipality International Talents Center, PR China. Previously, he was with the University of Nottingham Malaysia from 2008 to 2022. He received his Ph D in Computer Science from the University of Birmingham, UK, in 2007. For his work in Coevolutionary Computation,  he was awarded by the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society for 2009 Outstanding Ph D Dissertation and 2010 Transactions on Evolutionary Computation Outstanding Paper, and European Commision Horizon 2020 Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions Individual Fellowship (2016-2018).