Professor Xin YAO
姚新
FHKEng [2024]
Vice-President (Research and Innovation), and Tong Tin Sun Chair Professor of Machine Learning, Lingnan University
- Fellow, IEEE
- IEEE Frank Rosenblatt Award, 2020, An IEEE-wide technical field award
- IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Evolutionary Computation Pioneer Award, 2013
- IEEE Donald G. Fink Prize Paper Award, 2010, An IEEE-wide award
- IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation Outstanding Paper Awards, 2010, 2016, 2017
- Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award, 2012
- IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks Outstanding Paper Award, 2011
- Distinguished “Leon the Mathematician” Lecturer, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 2010
- Sterling Hou Lecturer, University of Missouri- Columbia, USA, 2005
Prof Xin YAO has published three books, 280+ peer-reviewed journal papers and 360+ conference papers. According to Google Scholar, his research has been cited over 76,000 times by other scholars, with an H-index of 126. He was listed in World's Top 2% Scientists by Stanford University since 2021 and named Highly Cited Researcher in 2022, 2023 and 2024.
Previously, he held academic positions at the Southern University of Science and Technology (China), the University of Birmingham (UK), Australian Defence Force Academy at the University of New South Wales (Australia), and the University of Science and Technology of China (China).
PhD
Computer Science
University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), Hefei, China
MSc
Computer Science
North China Institute of Computing Technology, Beijing, China
BSc
Computer Science
USTC, Hefei, China