Lecture Title: When Evolutionary Computation Meets Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence

Speaker: Professor YAO Xin

Affiliation: Lingnan University

Time: February 20, 2025 (Thursday), 09:30-11:00

Venue: Lecture Hall 501, Building B, Science and Education Building, Feicui Lake Campus

Speaker Biography:

Professor Xin Yao is the Vice President (Research and Innovation) and the Tang Tianxun Chair Professor of Machine Learning at Lingnan University. His primary research interests include evolutionary computation, machine learning, and nature-inspired artificial intelligence. His research has been recognized with numerous awards, including the 2001 IEEE Donald G. Fink Prize Paper Award, the 2010, 2016, and 2017 IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation Outstanding Paper Awards, and the 2011 IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks Outstanding Paper Award. He was elected as an IEEE Fellow in 2003, received the Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award in 2012, the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Evolutionary Computation Pioneer Award in 2013 (the first Chinese recipient), and the IEEE Frank Rosenblatt Award in 2020 (the first Chinese recipient).

Professor Yao served as the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation from 2003 to 2008 and as the President of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society from 2014 to 2015. Since 2021, he has been consistently listed among the top 2% of scientists globally by Stanford University. He was also recognized as a Highly Cited Researcher in 2022 and 2023 and was elected as a Fellow of the Hong Kong Academy of Engineering Sciences in 2024. His publications have garnered over 76,000 citations on Google Scholar, with an H-index of 126.

Professor Yao enrolled in the first class of the Special Class for the Gifted Young at the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) in March 1978. He received his Bachelor's degree from the Department of Computer Science at USTC in 1982, his Master's degree from the North China Institute of Computing Technology in 1985, and his Ph.D. from the Department of Computer Science at USTC in 1990. Since then, he has held academic positions in Australia, the United Kingdom, and China.