Dr Yaochu Jin
Non-Executive Director
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Dr Yaochu Jin
Non-Executive Director
Yaochu Jin received the B.Sc., M.Sc., and Ph.D. degrees from Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, in 1988, 1991, and 1996, respectively, and the Dr.-Ing. degree from Ruhr University Bochum, Germany, in 2001.
He is currently a Distinguished Chair, Professor in Computational Intelligence, Department of Computer Science, University of Surrey, Guildford, U.K., where he heads the Nature Inspired Computing and Engineering Group. He was a Finland Distinguished Professor funded by the Finnish Funding Agency for Innovation (Tekes) and a Changjiang Distinguished Visiting Professor appointed by the Ministry of Education, China. His main research interests include data-driven surrogate- assisted evolutionary optimization, multi-objective evolutionary learning, privacy-preserving and adversarial machine learning, and evolutionary developmental systems. His research has been funded by EU, EPSRC, Royal Society, NSFC, and the industry, including Honda, Airbus, and Bosch.
Dr Jin is presently the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON COGNITIVE AND DEVELOPMENTAL SYSTEMS and the Editor-in-Chief of Complex & Intelligent Systems (Springer). He was an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer (2013-2015 and 2017-2019), an elected AdCom member of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (2013-2014), and Vice President for Technical Activities of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (2014-2015). He was the General Co-Chair of the 2016 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence, the Chair of the 2020 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, and the Registration Chair of the 2016 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence. He is the recipient of the 2018 IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation Outstanding Paper Award, the 2015 and 2017 IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine Outstanding Paper Award, and the Best Paper Award of the 2010 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology. He was named by the Web of Science Group as “a Highly Cited Researcher in 2019”. He is a Fellow of IEEE.
