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Curriculum Vitae Curriculum Vitae 1 Personal Information NAME Xin YAO WORK ADDRESS The Centre of Excellence for Research in Computational Intelligence and Applications (CERCIA) School of Computer Science, The University of Birmingham Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT, U.K. Email: [email protected] URL: http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/∼xin Phone: +44 121 414 3747, Fax: +44 121 414 2799 QUALIFICATIONS BSc (1982), MSc (1985), PhD (1990). MAJOR RECOGNITIONS IEEE Fellow; Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award; IEEE Com- putational Intelligence Society Evolutionary Computation Pioneer Award. 2 Employment History Jan. 2003 – : Director of The Centre of Excellence for Research in Computational Intelligence and Appli- cations (CERCIA), the University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK. Apr. 1999 – : Chair of Computer Science, School of Computer Science, the University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK. (Deputy Head from August 2000 to February 2004 and from August 2004 to August 2007.) Jan. 1999 – Mar. 1999: Associate Professor in the School of Computer Science, University College, The University of New South Wales (UNSW), Australian Defence Force Academy (ADFA), Canberra, ACT 2600, Australia. July 1995 – Dec. 1998: Senior Lecturer in the School of Computer Science, University College, UNSW, ADFA, Canberra, ACT 2600, Australia. Sept. 1992 – June 1995: Lecturer in the School of Computer Science, University College, UNSW, ADFA, Canberra, ACT 2600, Australia. Aug. 1991 – Aug. 1992: CSIRO Post-Doctoral Research Fellow (Equivalent to Lecturer Level B) in the Knowledge-Based Systems Group, CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Or- ganisation) Division of Building, Construction and Engineering, PO Box 56, Graham Road, Highett, Victoria 3190, Australia. Aug. 1990 – July 1991: Post-Doctoral Fellow (Equivalent to Lecturer Level A) in the Computer Sciences Laboratory, Research School of Physical Sciences and Engineering, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia. The Computer Sciences Laboratory is now in the Research School of Information Sciences and Engineering. 1 Oct. 1989 – July 1990: Lecturer in the Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), Hefei, Anhui 230027, P. R. China. (USTC is the only university affiliated with the Chinese Academy of Sciences. It used to adopt a five-year undergraduate program for all BSc and BEng students until 2004.) Nov. 1985 – Sept. 1989: Associate Lecturer in the Department of Computer Science and Technology, USTC, Hefei, Anhui 230027, P. R. China. 3 Honorary Appointments Oct. 2010 – Present: Director of the USTC-Birmingham Joint Research Institute in Intelligent Computa- tion and Its Applications (UBRI), University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), Hefei, Anhui 230027, P. R. China. Sept. 2003 – Present: Director of the Nature Inspired Computation and Applications Laboratory (NICAL), USTC, Hefei, Anhui 230027, P. R. China. January-December 2008 and 1/8/2009-31/7/2010 Distinguished Visiting Professor, College of Informatics, Yuan Ze University, 135 Far-East Rd., Chung-Li, Taoyuan, Taiwan. Sept. 2003 – Sept. 2005: Distinguished Visiting Professor (Grand Master Chair Professorship), University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230027, P. R. China. (The 11th one in the USTC history and the first one in Information Science and Technology.) Sept. 2003 – Present: Chief Professor, School of Software Engineering, University of Science and Technol- ogy of China, Hefei, Anhui 230027, P. R. China. Sept. 2003 – : Visiting Professor, Xidian University, Xi’an, P. R. China. Jun. 2002 – : Visiting Professor, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing 210016, P. R. China. Jan. 2003 – : Visiting Professor, Northeast Normal University, Changchun, Jilin 130024, P. R. China. Jan. 1998 – Feb. 1998: Foreign research specialist. The Electrotechnical Laboratory (ETL), 1-1-1 Ume- zono, Tsukuba, Japan. Feb. 1996 – July 1996: Foreign research specialist. The Electrotechnical Laboratory (ETL), 1-1-1 Ume- zono, Tsukuba, Japan. 4 Leadership Positions in Professional Organisations 1. Past-President (2016) of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society. 2. President (2014-15) of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society. (The Society has 7600+ mem- bers world-wide at the end of 2015, highest ever.) 3. President-Elect (2013), Vice President for Publications (2009-12) of the IEEE Computational Intel- ligence Society. 4. Member of the IEEE Fellow Evaluation Committee (2015). 5. Member of the IEEE Ethics and Member Conduct Committee (2015). 6. Member of the Steering Committee of IEEE Big Data Initiative (2015-16). 7. Member of the IEEE Technical Activity Board (2014-15). 2 8. Member (2010-15) of the Scientific Committee of European Centre for Soft Computing, Edificio de Investigaci´on,Calle Gonzalo Gutirrez Quir´osS/N, 33600 Mieres, Asturias, Spain. 9. Chair of the Fellows Evaluation Committee of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (2008- 09). 10. Member of the IEEE Frank Rosenblatt Award Committee (2005-06 and 2008-2011). (This is an IEEE level committee. IEEE has approximately 300,000 members world-wide.) 11. Chair of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Technical Committee on Evolutionary Com- putation (2001-03). 12. President of the Evolutionary Programming Society (2000-01). 13. Member of the PPSN Steering Committee (2001-06). 14. Associate member of the ORBICOM network (The Worldwide Network of UNESCO Chairs and Associates in Communications). 5 Education Feb. 1986 – May 1990: PhD student in the Department of Computer Science and Technology, USTC, Hefei, Anhui 230027, P. R. China. My thesis won the President’s Award of the Chinese Academy of Sciences for Outstanding Thesis in November 1989, which was competed nationally. July 1982 – Oct. 1985: MSc by research student in the Mainframe Architecture Laboratories of the North China Institute of Computing Technology (NCI) in the then Ministry of Electronic Industry of China, Beijing 100083, P. R. China. July 1978 – June 1982: BSc student in the Department of Computer Science and Technology, USTC, Hefei, Anhui 230027, P. R. China. I completed the five-year programme in four years. Mar. 1978 – July 1978: Full-time student in the Special Class for the Gifted Young, USTC, Hefei, Anhui 230027, P. R. China. There were only 21 students in the class selected from all over China. 6 Awards and Honours 1/1/2015 - 31/12/2017: IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Distinguished Lecturer. August 2015: IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation Outstanding 2013 Paper Award (bestowed in 2015): • U. Bhowan, M. Johnston, M. Zhang and X. Yao, “Evolving Diverse Ensembles using Genetic Programming for Classification with Unbalanced Data,” IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, 17(3):368-386, June 2013. 2013: 2013 IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Evolutionary Computation Pioneer Award. 1 October 2012 - 30 September 2017: Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award. 7 November 2012: IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (CIS) Distinguished Lecture, IEEE CIS New York Chapter, Fordham University, New York City, NY, USA. 2013: The ICI Prize for the Best Paper published in Transactions in 2012: • S. He, H.J. Cooper, D.G. Ward, X. Yao and J.K. Heath, “Analysis of premalignant pancre- atic cancer mass spectrometry data for biomarker selection using a group search optimizer,” Transactions of the Institute of Measurement and Control, 34(6):668-676, August 2012. 3 June 2011: IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks Outstanding 2009 Paper Award (bestowed in 2011): • H. Chen, P. Tiˇnoand X. Yao, “Probabilistic Classification Vector Machines,” IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, 20(6):901-914, June 2009. July 2010: IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation Outstanding 2008 Paper Award (bestowed in 2010): • S. Y. Chong, P. Tino and X. Yao, “Measuring Generalization Performance in Co-evolutionary Learning,” IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, 12(4):479-505, August 2008. 5 July 2010: 2010 BT Gordon Radley Award for Best Author of Innovation (Finalist): • P. R. Lewis, P. Marrow and X. Yao, “Resource Allocation in Decentralised Computational Sys- tems: An Evolutionary Market-Based Approach,” Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Sys- tems, 21(2):143-171, September 2010. June 2010: Inaugural University Award for Excellence in Doctoral Research Supervision, University of Birmingham, UK. 2 November 2010: Distinguished “Leon the Mathematician” Lecturer at Department of Informatics, Aris- totle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. 2003 – : IEEE Fellow. 2003 – 2013: IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Distinguished Lecturer. August 2007 – 2011: Fellow of British Computer Society. 2008-2010: Supervisor of award-winning PhD theses: 2010: Huanhuan Chen’s PhD thesis (completed in 2008) on “Diversity and Regularization in Neural Network Ensembles” won the 2011 IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Outstanding PhD Dissertation Award in July 2010. The Award was competed globally. Only one award was given in that year. 2009: Huanhuan Chen’s PhD thesis (completed in 2008) on “Diversity and Regularization in Neural Network Ensembles” won a CPHC/BCS Distinguished PhD Dissertation Runner up Award. 2008: Siang Yew Chong’s PhD thesis (completed in 2007) on “Generalization and Diversity in Co- evolutionary Learning” won the 2009 IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Outstanding PhD Dissertation Award in June 2008. The Award was competed globally. Only one award was
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