Yaochu Jin#
| Membership Number: | 5638 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | INFORMATICS |
| Elected: | 2021 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.surrey.ac.uk/people/yaochu-jin |
| ORCID: | 0000-0003-1100-0631 |
| Facebook: | https://www.facebook.com/yaochu.jin |
| Linkedin: | https://www.linkedin.com/in/yaochu-jin-ieee-fellow-87357519/ |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2023 - present Chair Professor for AI, Westlake University, Hangzhou, China
- 2021 - present Surrey Distinguished Chair, Department of Computer Science, University of Surrey, UK
- 2021 - 2023 Alexander von Humboldt Professor for AI, Faculty of Technology, Bielefeld University, Germany
- 2019 - 2021 Surrey Distinguished Chair, Department in Computer Science, University of Surrey, UK
- 2010 - 2019 Chair in Computational Intelligence, Department in Computer Science, University of Surrey, UK
- 2015 - 2017 Finland Distinguished Professor, Faculty of Information Technology, University of Jyväskylä, Finland
- 2007 - 2010 Subject Coordinator, Institute for Cognition and Robotics, Bielefeld University, Germany
- 2003 - 2010 Principal Scientist, Honda Research Institute Europe, Germany
- 2002 - 2003 Senior Scientist, Honda R&D Europe, Germany
- 1999 - 2001 Scientist, Honda R&D Europe, Germany
- 1998 - 1999 Postdoctoral Associate, Industrial Engineering Department, The State University of New Jersey, USA
- 1997 - 1998 Research Associate, Institute for Neuroinformatics, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany
- 1996 - 1997 Visiting Academic Researcher, Institute for Neuroinformatics, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany
Fields of Scholarship
- Evolutionary developmental systems
- Artificial intelligence
- Multi-objective machine learning
- Trustworthy machine learning
- Self-organizing robotic systems
- Data-driven evolutionary optimization
- Computational intelligence
- Multi-objective evolutionary optimization
- Evolutionary computation
Honours and Awards
- 2021 Alexander von Humboldt Professor for Artificial Intelligence, Federal Ministry of Education and Research, Germany
- 2020 Global Highly Cited Researcher, Web of Science Group, Clarivate Analytics
- 2019 Global Highly Cited Researcher, Web of Science Group, Clarivate Analytics
- 2019 Elected Administrative Committee Member, IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (for 2020 - 2022)
- 2019 Surrey Distinguished Chair (only 14 academics in total so far were awarded this title across the whole University)
- 2018 Distinguished Visiting Scholar, University of Technology Sydney, Australia (2018)
- 2016 IEEE Distinguished Lecturer (for 2017 - 2019)
- 2016 Invited Plenary Speaker at the 2016 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence, Vancouver, Canada
- 2015 IEEE Fellow (starting 01.2016)
- 2015 Finland Distinguished Professor, Finnish Funding Agency for Innovation, Finland
- 2015 Changjiang Distinguished Professor, Minister of Education, China
- 2014 Vice President for Technical Activities, IEEE Computational Intelligence Society
- 2012 IEEE Distinguished Lecturer (for 2013 - 2015)
- 2011 Elected Administrative Committee Member, IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (for 2012 - 2014)
- 2009 Distinguished Visiting Professor, University of Science and Technology, China
- 2007 Distinguished Visiting Professor, Yuan Ze University, Taiwan
- 1995 Science and Technology Progress Award, The Ministry of Education, China
