Curriculum Vitae
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Personal Data
- Name in English: JIN, Yaochu
- Name in Chinese:
- 1966: born in Wujiang, Suzhou, China
- Email: given_name.family_name@honda-ri.de
Education
- 2001: Doktor-Ingenieur (Dr.-Ing.), Institut für Neuroinformatik
and Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Bochum, Germany (Dissertation: Knowledge in
Evolutionary and Learning Systems )
- 1996: Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, Zhejiang University
(Dissertation: Intelligent Modeling and Control of
Complex Systems )
- 1990: Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Zhejiang University
(Thesis: Dynamic Control of Robot Manipulators)
- 1988: Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering,
Zhejiang University,
Hangzhou, China
(Thesis: A Micro-processor Controlled Medical Instrument)
Employment
- 2003 - Present: Principal Scientist, Honda Research Institute Europe,
Offenbach/Main, Germany
- 1999 - 2002: Scientist, Future Technology Research Division, HONDA R&D EUROPE (Deutschland) GmbH, Offenbach/Main, Germany
- 1998 - 1999: Postdoctoral Associate, Industrial Eng. Dept., The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway and Information Technology, Allied Signal Inc.(now Honeywell Inc.), Morristown, New Jersey, USA
- 1996 - 1998: Visiting Researcher (1996-1997) and Researcher, Institut für Neuroinformatik (INI), Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Bochum, Germany
- 1991 - 1996: Teaching Assistant, Lecturer (1993) and Associate Professor (1996), Electrical Engineering Department, Zhejiang University
Professional Activities
- Journal Editorship
- Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology (since 2001)
- Guest co-Editor of IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation
Special Issue on "Evolutionary Optimization in Presence of Uncertainties" (in preparation)
- Guest Editor of IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics
Special Issue on "Knowledge extraction and incorporation in evolutionary
computation"(in preparation)
- Guest co-Editor of Soft Computing Journal Special Issue on "Approximation and
Learning in Evolutionary Computation"(completed, in press), 2003
- Guest co-Editor of IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics
Special Issue on "Soft Computing Techniques in Intelligent Vehicle Systems."
Vol.50, No.1, 2003
- Conference Activities
- Co-organizer, Special Session on Learning and Approximation in Design Optimization,
CEC'04, Portland, June 20-23, 2004
- IPC member,
ISDA'04, Budapest, August 26 - 28, 2004
- IPC member,
ICAIIP-2004, Çanakkale, April 26-28, 2004
- IPC member,
the 2004 IEEE International Symposium on
Intelligent Control, Taiwan, September 2-4, 2004
- Co-Chair EvoWorkshop on Evolutionary Computation for Stochastic
and Dynamic Environments (EvoSTOC), Coimbra, April 2004
- TPC Member, The Second International Conference on Computational
Intelligence, Robotics and Autonomous Systems, Singapore, December 2003
- IPC Member, Genetic and Evolutionary Computation
Conference, and Session Chair of "GA Operators", Chicago, July 2003
- IPC member, Second International Conference on Evolutionary Multicriterion
Optimization, also Session Chair of "Objective Handling",
Faro, April 2003
- Workshop co-organizer, Learning, Adaptation and Approximation in Evolutionary Computation within GECCO-03
- IPC Member, Genetic and Evolutionary Computation
Conference, New York, July 2002
- IPC Member, International Conference on Artificial and Computational
Intelligence, Tokyo, August 2002
- Workshop co-organizer, Approximation and Learning in
Evolutionary Computation within GECCO-02
- Membership
- Chair of Task Force on
"Evolutionary Computation in Dynamic and
Uncertain Environments", Technical Committee on
Evolutionary Computation, IEEE Neural Network Society
- Member of Task Force on
"Multiobjective Evolutionary Algorithms", Technical Committee on
Evolutionary Computation, IEEE Neural Network Society
- Member of
Council of Authors of the ISGEC (since 2003)
- Member of IASTED Technical Committee on Soft Computing (since 2000)
- Senior Member, IEEE (Control Systems Society and Systems, Man,
and Cybernetics Society)
- Member, International Society of Genetic and Evolutionary Computation
- Former member, the New York Academy of Science
- Former member, International Neural Network Society
- Reviewer/External Examiner
- Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research, 2003
- Research Award of ASEA Brown Boveri (ABB), 2003
- MPhil Thesis, The Electrical and Information Department,
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, 2003
- Reviewer
- IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part A: Systems and Humans; Part B: Cybernetics
- IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems
- IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation
- IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation
- International Journal of Fuzzy Sets and Systems
- International Journal of Applied Systems Studies
- Evolutionary Computation
- Information Science
- Cognitive Systems Research
- Real-time Systems
- Advances in Engineering Software
Honors and Awards
- Recipient of
- Excellent Text Book Award, Zhejiang University, 1999
- Science and Technology Progress Award from Zhejiang
Province, China, 1996
- Scholarship for Overseas Studying from The Ministry of
Education of China, 1996
- Science and Technology Progress Award from The Ministry of Education of China, 1995
- Selected in the Marquis Who's Who in the World, and Who's Who in Science and Engineering
(Unknown if listed)
Research Experience and Interests
- Evolutionary Computation: Evolutionary optimization with
approximate fitness functions, search for robust solutions,
evolutionary multiobjective optimization, dynamic optimum tracking,
knowledge incorporation and extraction, parallel implementation
- Fuzzy Systems: Interpretability, data-driven fuzzy rule generation and validation, neural and evolutionary fuzzy systems, fuzzy preference modeling and multi-criterion decision-making
- Neural Networks and Machine Learning: Structure self-organization and optimization, learning and regularization, multi-objective network ensembling, knowledge incorporation and extraction, statistical methods
- Control Systems: Adaptive control(MRAC and STC), variable structure control, non-linear feedback control, intelligent control, system identification
- Robotics: Dynamics and kinematics, navigation, distributed multi-agent based behavior control
- Applications: Robotic control, industrial process modeling and control, aerodynamic structural optimization, driver behavior modeling and vehicle control, robotics, sensor network self-organization for surveillance and target tracking
Teaching Experience
- Current student projects
- Evolutionary search for robust solutions with approximate model.
Diplomarbeit (Master's Thesis), ongoing
- Evolutionary aerodynamic optimization with approximate models.
Praktikum (Internship) or Diplomarbeit (Master's Thesis)
(Contact me for further information. Students from outside of
Germany will also be considered.)
- Courses Taught
- Intelligent Control, major graduate course, Electrical Engineering
Department, Zhejiang University, Spring Semester, 1994, 1995, 1996
I developed the new course, prepared a text book (including fuzzy systems, neural networks and their application to
control systems), which was published later.
- Computer Real-time Control Experiments, graduate course, Fall
Semester, 1992, 1993
I was in charge of the development of a computer network for real-time control.
I prepared the Experiment Instructions for Computer Real-time Control in English. Experiments include furnace control,
water level control, CSTR control, servo control, and robot control.
Recent Activities
- Co-editing a Special Issue of the IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary
Computation on Evolutionary
Optimization in Presence of Uncertainties
Submission deadline: May 31, 2004
- Co-organizing
the EvoSTOC Workshop, Coimbra, Portugal, April, 2004.
Submission deadline: Nov.14, 2003
- Guest editing a Special Issue of IEEE Transactions on Systems,
Man, and Cybernetics, Part C: Applications and Reviews on
Knowledge Extraction and Incorporation
in Evolutionary Computation. Submission deadline: September 1, 2003 Submission deadline passed, no new submissions will be
accepted.
- Reviewing papers for GECCO-2003 to be held in Chicago
- Co-organizing a Workshop on Learning, Adaptation and Approximation in Evolutionary Computation within GECCO'03, Chicago, 2003.
- Invited by Prof. P.C. Chang, I visited
the Industrial Engineering and Management Department and the
Computer Science Department of
Yuan-Ze University, Taiwan, from Nov. 4-10, 2002 and gave a talk on
"Evolutionary multi-objective optimization: Methods, analysis and
applications"
- Co-editing a Special Issue of Soft Computing Journal on
Approximation and Learning in Evolutionary Computation
- Member of IPC, Second International Conference on Evolutionary Multicriterion
Optimization, Faro, Portugal, 2003
- Member of IPC, International Conference on Artificial and Computational
Intelligence, Tokyo, Japan, 2002
- Member of PC, Genetic and Evolutionary Computation
Conference, New York, USA, 2002
- Co-organized a workshop on Approximation and Learning in
Evolutionary Computation within GECCO-2002, NY
- Co-edited a special issue of IEEE Transactions on Industrial
Electronics on Soft Computing Techniques in Intelligent
Vehicle Systems, Vol.50, No.1, 2003
Last update November, 2003. Please direct all inquires to
Yaochu Jin.