Biography
Professor Yaochu Jin is a
Distinguished Chair, Professor in Computational Intelligence
and Head of the Nature Inspired Computing and Engineering (NICE) Group, Department
of Computer Science, University of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey, UK. He was a
"Finland Distinguished Professor" at University of Jyvaskyla,
Finland, "Changjiang Distinguished
Professor" at Northeastern University, China, and Visiting Professor at
Donghua University, China.
Professor Jin is the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE
Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems, and Editor-in-Chief
of Springer's free Open Access Journal Complex & Intelligent Systems. He
is a Fellow of IEEE.
He received the BSc, MSc and PhD degrees, all in automatic control from
Zhejiang University, China and the Dr.-Ing. degree from Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany. He was
Principal Scientist and Group Leader at the Honda Research Institute Europe,
Germany before he was appointed Chair in Computational Intelligence at
University of Surrey in June 2010. He was Associate Lecturer, Lecturer and
Associate Professor with the Electrical Engineering Department, Zhejiang
University from 1991 to 1996. He has published over 200 journal and
conference papers and was granted 9 US/EU/Japan patents. His papers have
reported over 16,000 citations (according to Google Scholar). Since he joined Surrey in June 2010, he has
successfully attracted research funds from EU FP7, UK EPSRC, Royal Society, and
industries, including Honda, Bosch, Santander, HR Wallingford, Intellas UK Ltd, and Aero Optimal. He was also a member
of the European GARTEUR Action Group "Surrogate-based Global Optimization Methods in
Aerodynamic Design".
He was Vice President for Technical Activities of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society
(2014-2015) and a Distinguished
Lecturer (2013-2015, 2017-2019) of IEEE. He was an
AdCom member (2012-2013), a member of the Award Committee
(2012-2013) and Chair (2011-2012) of the Intelligent Systems Applications Technical Committee of the
IEEE Computational Intelligence Society. He was the founding General Co-Chair
of the 2007, 2009, 2011 and 2013 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence
in Multi-Criterion Decision-Making, and the founding General Co-Chair of 2011
and 2013 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Dynamic and
Uncertain Environments. He is the General Chair of the 2012 IEEE Symposium on
Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology. He
has delivered over 14 Keynote speeches at international conferences on
morphogenetic robotics and morphogenetic self-organizing systems,
developmental neural computation, modeling and analysis of gene regulatory
networks, evolutionary optimization in dynamic and uncertain environments and
multi-objective machine learning.
He also serves as an Associate Editor of BioSystems,
the IEEE
Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics,
the IEEE
Transactions on Nanobioscience, the Soft Computing Journal,
and Natural
Computing. He is an Editorial Board Member of the Evolutionary
Computation Journal (since 2014). He is a past Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Neural
Networks and Learning Systems, the IEEE Transactions on Systems, man and Cybernetics,
Part C: Applications and Reviews, and the IEEE Transactions on Control
Systems Technology.
Professor Jin is a member of Peer Review College and Review Panelist of
EPSRC, UK, a member of Computer Science Review Panel, Academy of Finland, an Evaluator/Panel
member of EU FP7 FET / Human Brain Project, a Peer Reviewer of Italian
Evaluation of Research Quality exercise (VQR 2004-2010), and a Grant reviewer
for many funding agencies, including the Royal Academy of Engineering (UK),
the Levehulme Trust (UK), the Marsden Fund (New
Zealand), Killam Fellowship Program (Canada), the
Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research, Czech Science Foundation,
Cyprus Research Promotion Fundation, FWF (Austria),
and the European Science Foundation.
