Yaochu Jin - Resume

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Biosketch

Professor Yaochu Jin is Chair in Computational Intelligence and Head of the Nature Inspired Computing and Engineering (NICE) Group , Department of Computing, University of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey, UK. He is also a Visiting Professor of University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China.

He received the BSc, MSc and PhD degrees, all in automatic control from Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China and the Dr.-Ing. degree from Ruhr-University Bochum, Bochum, Germany. He was Principal Scientist and Project Leader at the Honda Research Institute Europe, Offenbach Germany before he was appointed Chair in Computational Intelligence by the University of Surrey in June 2010. He was Associate Lecturer, Lecturer and Associate Professor with the Electrical Engineering Department, Zhejiang University from 1991 to 1996.

Professor Jin currently serves as an Associate Editor of BioSystems, International Journal of Fuzzy Systems, the IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine, the IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, the IEEE Transactions on Nanobioscience, and the IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Part C: Applications and Reviews. He is an Area Editor of the Soft Computing Journal.

He was the General Co-Chair of the 2007, 2009 and 2011 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Multi-Criterion Decision-Making, and the 2011 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Dynamic and Uncertain Environments. He is the General Chair of the 2012 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology. He presently chairs the Intelligent Systems Application Technical Committee, IEEE Computational Intelligence Society. He is an elected member of the Administrative Committee of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society to serve the term from 2012 to 2014.

He is a Fellow of British Computer Society, Senior Member of IEEE and Member of INNS.

Research Interests

Professor Jin's primary research interests include the computational approach to a systems-level understanding of evolution, learning and development in biology, and nature-inspired approaches to solving complex engineering problems. Relevant research fields cover artificial life, bio-inspired robotics, computational intelligence, computational systems biology and computational neuroscience. Currently, he is interested in the following research topics:

Computational Intelligence (CI)
Computational Systems Biology and Bioinformatics (CSBB)
Computational and Cognitive Neuroscience (CCN)
Real-world Applications of CI, CSBB and CCN

Research Team and On-Going Research Projects

Current Vacancies

None

Highly motived students interested in doing a PhD in any of my research areas are encouraged to contact me by email. Typical starting dates for PhD students are October, January, April and July. If you are keen to apply for a scholarship that covers the tuition fee plus a stipend, please apply before the end of May.

Publications by Year

Publications by Category

Publications by Topic

Education

2001: Dr.-Ing., Institut für Neuroinformatik, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany.
Dissertation: Knowledge Incorporation in Evolutionary and Learning Systems
1996: Ph.D. in Automatic Control, Department of Electrical Engineering, Zhejiang University.
Dissertation: Intelligent Modeling and Control of Complex Systems
1990: M.Sc. in Automatic Control, Department of Electrical Engineering, Zhejiang University
1988: B.Sc. in Electrical Automation, Department of Electrical Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China

Employment

06.2010 - Present: Professor, Chair in Computational Intelligence, Head of the Nature Inspired Computing and Engineering (NICE) Group, Department of Computing, University of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey, UK
07.2009 - Present: Visiting Professor, NICAL, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China More ...
01.2003 - 05.2010: Principal Scientist, Honda Research Institute Europe (HRI-EU), Offenbach/Main, Germany
11.2007 - 05.2010: Scientific Coordinator, CoR-Lab Graduate School, Research Institute for Cognition and Robotics, Bielefeld University, Germany
07.1999 - 12.2002: Scientist, Senior Scientist (2002), Future Technology Research Division, HONDA R&D EUROPE (Deutschland) GmbH, Offenbach/Main, Germany
07.1998 - 06.1999: Postdoctoral Associate, Industrial Eng. Dept., Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway and Information Technology, Allied Signal Inc.(now Honeywell Inc.), Morristown, New Jersey, USA
10.1996 - 06.1998: Visiting Researcher (1996-1997) and Research Associate (wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter), Institut für Neuroinformatik (INI), Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Bochum, Germany
03.1991 - 07.1999: Associate Lecturer, Lecturer (1993) and Associate Professor (1996), Electrical Engineering Department, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China

Honors and Awards

Fellow, the British Computer Society (BCS)
Best Paper Award, 2010 IEEE Sysmposium on Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, May 2-5, 2010, Montreal, Canada
Authors: Yaochu Jin and Jens Trommler
Title: A fitness-independent evolvability measure for evolutionary developmental systems.
Best Student Paper Award, the IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computational Intelligence, April 1-5, 2007, Honolulu, Hawaii
Authors: Ingo Paenke (Student), Juergen Branke (co-supervisor), Yaochu Jin (co-supervisor)
Title: On the influence of phenotype plasticity on the genotype diversity.
Distinguished Visiting Professor, College of Informatics, Yuan Ze University, Taiwan, ROC
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
Senior Member, IEEE
Listed in Marquis Who's Who in the World, and Who's Who in Science and Engineering

Journal Editorship

Associate Editor, International Journal of Fuzzy Systems (2011 - )
Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Nanobioscience (2011 - )
Associate Editor, BioSystems (2009 - )
Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks (2007 -)
Associate Editor, IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine (2006 -)
Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part C: Applications and Reviews (2004 -)
Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology (2001 - 2008)
Area Editor, Soft Computing, (2011-)
Member of Editorial Board, Soft Computing, (2006-2010)
Member of Editorial Board, The International Journal of Cognitive Informatics and Natural Intelligence (IJCiNi) (2007 -)
Member of Editorial Board, Memetic Computing (2008 -)
Member of Editorial Board, International Journal of Intelligent Computing and Cybernetics (2008 -)
Member of Editorial Board, International Journal of Swarm Intelligence Research (2009 -)
Guest Editor, IEEE Transactions on Autonomous Mental Development, Special Issue on "Computational Modeling of Neural and Brain Development" (on-going, submission deadline October 31, 2010)
Guest Editor, IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine, Special Issue on Evolutionary and Developmental Robotics (invitation only)
Guest Co-Editor, IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, Special Issue on "Evolving Developmental Systems" (on-going, submission deadline April 30, 2010)
Guest Co-Editor, BioSystems, Special Issue on "Evolving gene regulatory networks", vol. 98, no. 3, 2009
Guest Co-Editor, Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines, Special Issue on "Evolutionary Computation in Dynamic and Uncertain Environments", Vol.7, No.4, 2006
Guest Co-Editor, IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation , Special Issue on "Evolutionary Optimization in the Presence of Uncertainties", Vol. 10, No.4, 2006
Guest Editor, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part C: Applications and Reviews, Special Issue on "Knowledge Extraction and Incorporation in Evolutionary Computation", Vol.35, No.2, 2005
Guest Editor, Soft Computing, Special Issue on "Approximation and Learning in Evolutionary Computation", Vol.9, No.1, 2005
Guest Co-Editor, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics Special Issue on "Soft Computing Techniques in Intelligent Vehicle Systems", Vol.50, No.1, 2003

Invited Keynote / Plenary Talks, Invited Talks, and Other Invited Activities

Invited Plenary/Keynote Talks, Invited Tutorials
1. Invited Keynote, LION 6, Paris, Jan 16-20, 2012
2. Invited Keynote, "Morphogenetic Self-Organization of Swarm Robotic Systems for Robust Boundary Coverage and Target Tracking", The 7th International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Security, December 3-4, 2011, Sanya, Hainan, China
3. Invited Keynote, "Evolutionary developmental neurocomputing", DevLeaNN Workshop, October 27-28, 2011, Paris, France
4. Invited Keynote, "Computational Modeling, Analysis and Synthesis of Gene Regulatory Networks", Computational Methods in Bioinformatics, October 19, 2011, Salerno, Italy
5. Invited Keynote, "Morphogenetic Self-Organization of Collective Systems", Organic Computing Workshop, The 8th International Conference on Autonomic Computing Karlsruhe, Germany, June 14-18, 2011
6. Invited Tutorial, "A systems approach to evolutionary aerodynamic design optimization", Learning and Intelligent OptimizatioN(LION 5), Jan 17-21, 2011, Rome, Italy
7. Plenary talk, "Morphogenetic robotics", World Congress on Nature and Biologically Inspired Computing, December 15-17, 2010, Kitakyushu, Japan,
8. Plenary talk, "Analysis and Synthesis of Gene Regulatory Networks and Their Application to Morphogenetic Robotics", International Conference on Computational Systems Biology and Bioinformatics, November 4-5, 2010, Bangkok, Thailand
9. Invited plenary talk, "Multi-objective machine learning", The 2010 International Workshop on Nature Inspired Computation and Application , October 23-27, 2010, Hefei, China
10. Keynote talk, "A fitness-independent evolvability measure for evolutionary developmental systems", 7th International Symposium on Networks in Bioinformatics, April 22-23, 2010, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
11. Semi-plenary talk, "Computational modeling of gene regulatory networks: Analysis, synthesis and applications", 15th International Conference on Neural Information Processing of the Asia-Pacific Neural Network Assembly (ICONIP 2008), November 25-28, 2008, Auckland, New Zealand
12. Keynote talk, "Efficient evolutionary algorithms for complex engineering design", Adaptive Computing in Design and Manufacturing, April 29th-30th 2008, Bristol, UK
13. Keynote talk, "Pareto-optimality is everywhere: From engineering design, machine learning to biological systems", Genetic and Evolving Fuzzy Systems, 4 - 7 March, 2008, Witten-Bommerholz, Germany
14. Plenary talk, "Pareto-based multi-objective machine learning", Hybrid Intelligent Systems, Sep. 17-19, 2007, Kaiserslautern, Germany
Other Invited Talks
1. Invited talk, "Morphogenetic robotics", Robot Intelligence Technology (RIT) Laboratory, KAIST, 16 September 2011
2. Invited talk, "Morphogenetic robotics", College of Engineering, Seoul National University, 15 September, 2011
3. Invited talk, "Morphogenetic robotics", Forum Informatik, RWTH Aachen University, Germany, January 16, 2012
4. Invited talk, "Surrogate-Assisted Evolutionary Computation: Recent Advances and Future Challenges", Department of Computer Science, Technical University of Dortmund, March 29, 2011
5. Invited talk, "Morphogenetic robotics: Bio-inspired Self-organization of Robotic Systems", UoP Computer Science Seminar, University of Portmouth, March 11, 2011
6. Invited talk, "Dynamicalization - Manipulated Changes of Constraints for Efficient Optimization of Constrained Problems", Bridging The Gap: Workshop 7, Dynamic Optimisation in an Uncertain World: Challenges and State-of-the-Art , University of Birmingham, 24th February, 2011
7. Invited talk, "Morphogenetic robotics: Bio-inspired Self-organization of Robotic Systems", University of Loughborough, February 18, 2011
8. Invited talk, "Self-organization of neural systems - An evolutionary and developmental perspective", The Centre for Computational Statistics and Machine Learning, University College London, January 27, 2011
9. Invited talk, "Self-organization of neural systems - An evolutionary and developmental perspective", Department of Control Science and Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, 31st December, 2010
10. Invited talk, "A systems approach to multi-objective optimization of complex systems", Department of Automation, Tsinghua University, 29th December, 2010
11. Invited talk, "Analysis, synthesis and applications of gene regulatory networks models", School of Engineering, Mathematics and Physical Sciences, University of Exeter, 10th November, 2010
12. Invited talk, "Surrogate-asssited evolutionary computation - Recent advances and future challenges", School of Computer Science, University of Science and Technology of China, October 25, 2010
13. Invited talk, EU ICT FET Action Workshop on EVOBODY: new Principles of Unbound Embodied Evolution. Sept. 23, 2010, Malta
14. Invited talk, "Morphogenetic self-organization of collective systems", COST Action IC0806: Intelligent Monitoring, Control and Security of Critical Infrastructure Systems, Second Action Workshop, May 17-18, 2010, Budapest, Hungary
15. Invited talk, "Analysis and synthesis of gene regulatory networks and their application to morphogenetic robotics", Laboratory for Systems Theory and Automatic Control, Otto-von-Guericke University of Magdeburg, January 26, 2010
16. Invited talk, "Evolutionary multi-objective optimization of expensive problems using surrogate ensembles", Special Session on "Evolutionary Multi-Objective Optimizationation" organized by J. Branke, the 23rd European Conference on Operational Research, July 6-8 2009, Bonn, Germany
17. Invited talk, "Analysis, synthesis and applications of gene regulatory network", Colloquium, Faculty of Science, University of Amsterdam, February 13, 2009
18. Invited talk, "Brain-body co-evolution toward understanding major transitions in evolution of primitive nervous systems", INNS-NNN Symposia (New directions in Neural Networks) on Modelling the Brain and Nervous Systems, 24-25 November 2008, Auckland, NZ
19. Invited talk, "Pareto analysis of evolutionary and learning systems", The 2008 International Workshop on Nature Inspired Computation and Applications, May 27-29,2008, Hefei, China
20. Invited talk (together with B. Sendhoff), "Towards multi-objective system optimization", EMO 2007, March 8, Matsushima, Japan
21. Invited talk, "Scalable model-based multi-objective optimization", Dagstuhl Seminar on Practical Approaches to Multi-objective Optimization, Dec. 13-17, 2006, Schloss Dagstuhl, Wadern, Germany
22. Invited talk, "Modeling regularity in multi-objective optimization", PPSN Workshop on Multi-Objective problem Solving from Nature, Sep. 9, 2006, Reykjavik
23. Invited talk, "Multi-objective machine learning", School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham, February 18, 2006
24. Invited talk, "Research on evolution and learning at HRI-EU", Kanpur Genetic Algorithm Lab , Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India, July 6, 2005
25. Invited talk on "Hybrid representations for evolutionary multi-objective optimization", Dagstuhl Seminar on Practical Approaches to Multi-objective Optimization, Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany, Nov. 8-12, 2004
26. Invited talk, "Aerodynamic optimization using evolutionary algorithms", Track on EC in Industry, GECCO'04, Seattle, July 2004
27. Invited talk on "Ein auf evolutionaerer Mehrzieloptimierung basierender Ansatz zur Regularisierung neuronaler Netze" (A method for neural network regularization based on evolutionary multi-objective optimization), Fachbereich Informatik, Lehrstuhl Systemanalyse (Prof. Dr. Hans-Paul Schwefel), Technical University of Dortmund, Germany, March 1, 2004
28. Invited talk on "Rethinking multi-objective evolutionary algorithms", Dagstuhl Seminar on Theory of Evolutionary Algorithms, Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany, Feb. 15-20, 2004
29. Invited talk on "Dynamic weighted aggregation: from multi-objective optimization to dynamic optimum tracking". AIFB, University of Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany, Nov. 28, 2003
30. Invited talk on "Evolutionary multi-objective optimization: Methods, analysis and applications". the Industrial Engineering and Management Department, Yuan-Ze University, Chung-Li, Taiwan, ROC, Nov. 4-10, 2002
Tutorials
- Tutorial on "Morphogenetic Robotics: A New Emerging Field of Self-Organizing Robotic Systems", 2011 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, May 9-13, 2011, Shanghai, China (together with Y. Meng)
- Tutorial on "Multi-objective machine learning", 2011 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Multi-Criterion Decision-Making, April 12-15, 2011, Paris, France
- Tutorial on "Multi-objective machine learning", 2007 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence, April 1-5, 2007, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
- Tutorial on "Fitness approximation in evolutionary computation". GECCO'05, Washington D. C., USA, July 25, 2005
- Tutorial on "Evolutionary computation in dynamic and uncertain environments". CEC'04, Portland, OR, June 2004
Panel Discussions
- Invited panelist, WCCI'08 Industrial Panel Discussion, June 1-6, 2008, Hong Kong
- Invited panelist, panel discussion on "Evolutionary Multi-Objective Optimization" organized by Prof. K. Deb and Prof. C. Coello, at the WCCI'06, Vancouver, July 16-21, 2006
- Invited panelist, plenary panel discussion on "Open Problems and Challenges in Natural Computation and Knowledge Discovery" organized by Prof. Jacek Zurada, at the ICNC'05 and FSKD'05, August 27-29, 2005, Changsha, China.

Involvement in Professional Organizations

Elected AdCom member, IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (2012-2014)
Chair, Intelligent Systems Applications Technical Committee (ISATC), IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (2011 - 2012)
IEEE CIS Representative to IEEE Region 8 (2012-)
Management Committee Member, European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST), Action IC0806: Intelligent Monitoring, Control, and Security of Critical Infrastructure Systems
Chair, Industrial Liaison Subcommittee, IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (2010)
Chair, Continuing Education Sub-Committee, IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (2009-2010)
Member, Award Sub-Committee for Outstanding PhD Dissertation Award, IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (2009)
Member, Evolutionary Computation Technical Committee, IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (2007 - )
Member, Emergent Technologies Technical Committee, IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (2007 - 2010)
Founding Chair, Task Force on Evolutionary Computation in Dynamic and Uncertain Environments, Evolutionary Computation Technical Committee, IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (2004 - 2010)
Member, Task Force on Multiobjective Evolutionary Algorithms, Evolutionary Computation Technical Committee, IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (2005 - )
Member, Task Force on Large Scale Global Optimization, Evolutionary Computation Technical Committee, IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (2007 - )
Member, Task Force on Machine Learning, Emergent Technologies Technical Committee, IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (2008 -)
Member of Council of Authors of the ISGEC (since 2003)
Member, International Society of Genetic and Evolutionary Computation
Former member, the New York Academy of Science
Former member, International Neural Network Society

Conference Activities

Chair, Co-Chair
1. Program Chair, IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, June 20-23, 2013, Cancu, Mexico
2. General Chair, IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, May 9-12, 2012, San Diego, USA
3. Area Co-Chair, FUZZ-IEEE 2011, Taipei, Taiwan, June 27-30, 2011
4. Co-Chair, IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Multi-Criterion Decision Making (MCDM 2011), part of IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence, April 11-15, 2011, Paris
5. Co-Chair, IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Industry (CII 2011), part of IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence, April 11-15, 2011, Paris
6. Co-Chair, IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Dynamic and Uncertain Environments (CIDUE 2011), part of IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence, April 11-15, 2011, Paris
7. Tutorials and Workshops Co-Chair, CEC 2010, Barcelona, Spain, July 18-23, 2010
8. Program Chair-Industry, 2nd IFAC International Conference on Intelligent Control Systems and Signal Processing (ICONS'09), September, 2009, Istanbul, Turkey
9. Program Co-Chair, IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Multi-Criteria Decision-Making (IEEE MCDM 2009), Part of SSCI 2009, March 30 - April 2, 2009, Nashville, TN, USA
10. Tutorial Chair, 2007 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, Singapore, Sept. 25-28, 2007
11. Co-Chair, 2007 IEEE Symposium on Multi-Criteria Decision-Making (IEEE MCDM 2007), Part of SSCI 2007, April 1-5, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
12. Program Chair, The Second International Conference on Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery (FSKD'05). Hunan, China, 27-29 August 2005 Mana
13. Publicity Co-Chair, The Sixth International Conference on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications (ISDA2006), Jinan, China, Oct. 16-18, 2006
Workshop and Special Session Chair/Co-Chair
1. Co-Chair, Workshop on "Evolutionary transitions of brain-body couplings", The 11th International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior, Paris, France, August 24-28, 2010
2. Co-Chair, Workshop on "Bio-inspired self-organizing robotic systems", 2010 IEEE Int. Conference on Robotics and Automation, Anchorage, May 3-8, 2010
3. Co-Chair, Special session on "Expensive optimization problems", CEC 2010, Barcelona, July 18-23, 2010
4. Co-Chair, Special session on "Evolutionary computation in dynamic and uncertain environments", CEC 2010, Barcelona, July 18-23, 2010
5. Co-Chair, Special session on "Bio-inspired self-organizing multi-agent systems", CEC 2010, Barcelona, July 18-23, 2010
6. Co-Chair, Special session on "Evolutionary computation in dynamic and uncertain environments", CEC09, Trondheim, Norway, 18-21 May, 2009
7. Organizer, Special session on "Evolving gene regulatory networks", CEC'08, Hong Kong, June 1-6, 2008
8. Co-Chair, Special session on "Computational systems biology", CEC'07, Singapore, Sep. 25-28, 2007
9. Co-Chair, Special Session on "EC in dynamic and uncertain environments", CEC'07, Singapore, Sep. 25-28, 2007
10. Chair, Special Session on "Multi-Objective Machine Learning", IJCNN'06/WCCI'06, Vancouver, July 16-21, 2006
11. Co-Chair, Special Session on "Evolutionary Optimization in Dynamic and Uncertain Environments", CEC'06, Vancouver, July 16-21, 2006
12. Co-Chair, The Second European Workshop on Evolutionary Algorithms in Stochastic and Dynamic Environments, March 30 - 1 April 2005, Lausanne, Switzerland
13. Co-Chair, Special Session on "Learning and Approximation in Design Optimization", CEC'04, Portland, USA, June 20-23, 2004
14. Co-Chair, The First European Workshop on Evolutionary Computation for Stochastic and Dynamic Environments (EvoSTOC), Coimbra, April 2004
15. Co-Chair, Workshop on Learning, Adaptation and Approximation in Evolutionary Computation within GECCO-03, Chicago, July 2003
16. Co-Chair, Workshop on Approximation and Learning in Evolutionary Computation within GECCO-02, New York, July 2002
Committee Member
- Steering Committee member
  - 2007 IEEE Symposium on Multi-Criteria Decision-Making (MCDM), April 1-5, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
- Program Committee Member
  1. TPC member, IJCNN 2010, Barcelona, Spain
  2. PC member, GECCO 2010, Portland, USA
  3. PC member, HIS 2010, Atlanta, USA
  4. PC member, Int. Symposium on Neural Networks (ISNN), 2010, Shanghai, China
  5. PC member, PPSN 2010, Poland
  6. PC member, ICANN 2010, Greece
  7. PC member, FOURTH INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON GENETIC AND EVOLUTIONARY FUZZY SYSTEMS (GEFS 2010), 17 - 19 March 2010. Mieres, Asturias, Spain
  8. PC member, 8th International Conf. on Development and Learning, June 5-7, 2009, Shanghai, China
  9. PC member, IEEE GrC'09, August 17-19, 2009, Nanjing, China
  10. PC member, IJCNN 2009, June 14-19, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
  11. TPC member, ICANN 2009, 14-17 September, Limassol, Cyprus
  12. PC member, GECCO 2009, 8-12 July, 2009, Montreal, Canada
  13. PC member, CEC 2009, 18-21 May, 2009, Trondheim, Norway
  14. PC member, EMO'09, April 7-10, 2009, Nantes, France
  15. PC member, CCE 2008, Nov. 11-14, 2008, Mexico City, Mexico
  16. PC member, IBERAMIA 2008, October 14 -17, 2008, Lisboa, Portugal
  17. PC member, HIS 2008, Sept. 10-12th, 2008, Barcelona, Spain
  18. PC member, Int. Conf. on Cognitive Informatics, August 14-16, 2008, Stanford University, California, USA
  19. PC member, PPSN 2008, Sept. 13-17, 2008, Dortmund, Germany
  20. PC member, SMCia/08, June 25-27, 2008, Muroran, Japan
  21. PC member, GECCO 2008, Atlanta, USA
  22. PC member, 3rd International Workshop on Genetic and Evolutionary Fuzzy Systems, 4 - 7 March, 2008, Witten-Bommerholz, Germany
  23. PC member, 2008 World Congress on Computational Intelligence, 1-6 June, 2008, Hong Kong
  24. PC member, The First Int. Conference on Advances in Computer-Human Interaction, Feb. 10-15, 2008, St. Luce, Martinique
  25. PC member, GrC'07, Nov. 2-4, 2007, Silicon Valley, USA
  26. PC member, HIS'07, Sep. 17-19, Kaiserslautern, Germany
  27. PC member, GECCO 2007, July 7-11, 2007, London, UK
  28. Reviewer, CEC 2007, Sep. 25-28, 2007, Singapore
  29. Reviewer, FUZZ-IEEE 2007, London, England, July 24-26, 2007
  30. Reviewer, Int. Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN 2007), August 12-17, 2007, Orlando, Florida
  31. PC member, SMCia '07, Passau, Germany, August 1-3, 2007
  32. IPC member, The Third Int. Conf. on Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery, Haikou, China, Aug. 24-27, 2007
  33. IPC member, The Fourth International Conference on Evolutionary Multi-Criterion Optimization (EMO 2007), Matsushima, Japan, March 5-8, 2007
  34. PC member, SMCals'06, July 24-26, 2006, Logan, USA
  35. PC member, ICARCV'06, Dec. 5-8, Singapore
  36. PC member, Parallel Problem Solving from Nature (PPSN 2006), Reykjavik, Island, Sept. 9-13, 2006
  37. PC member, Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC 2006), Vancouver, Canada, July 16-21, 2006
  38. PC member, Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2006), Seattle, USA, July 8-12, 2006
  39. PC member, The 5rd IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Informatics, Beijing, China, July 17-19, 2006
  40. PC member, IEEE Cybernetics and Intelligent Systems, Bangkok, Tailand, 7-9 June, 2006
  41. PC member, The Sixth International Conference on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications (ISDA2006), Jinan, China, Oct. 16-18, 2006
  42. PC member, The Third European Workshop on Evolutionary Algorithms in Stochastic and Dynamic Environments, April 10-12, 2006, Budapest, Hungary
  43. IPC member, IEEE Int. Conf. on Engineering of Intelligent Systems, April 22-23, 2006, Islamabad, Pakistan
  44. PC member, 2006 IEEE Conference on Granular Computing, May 10-12, 2006, Atlanta, USA
  45. IPC member, The 2nd Symposium on Evolutionary Fuzzy Systems , Sept. 7-9, 2006, Ambelside, UK
  46. IPC member, SCIS & ISIS 200, September 20-24, 2006, O-okayama Campus West Bldg. 9, Tokyo Institute of Technology
  47. PC member, Simulated Evolution and Learning (SEAL'06), Oct. 15-18, 2006, Hefei, China
  48. Editorial Committee Member, ADAPTIVE COMPUTING IN DESIGN AND MANUFACTURE (ACDM 2006), APRIL 25th - 27th, 2006, BRISTOL, UK
  49. PC member, Fifth International Conference on Hybrid Systems, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Nov.6-9, 2005
  50. PC member, WSC10: 10th Online World Conference on Soft Computing in Industrial Applications, September 19th - October 7th, 2005
  51. IPC member, International Conference on Machine Intelligence,Tozeur, November 2005
  52. PC member, CEC-2005, Edinburgh, UK, September 2-5, 2005
  53. PC member, The 9th IASTED International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing. Sept. 12-14, 2005. Benidorm, Spain
  54. PC member, Intelligent Systems Design and Applications(ISDA'05) , Sep. 8-10, 2005, Wroclaw, Poland
  55. PC member, 2005 International Symposium on Intelligent Control, June 27-29, 2005 Hawaii Grand Hotel & Resort, Limassol, Cyprus
  56. PC member, Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, June 25-29, 2005, Washington D.C.
  57. PC member, The IASTED International Conference on COMPUTATIONAL INTELLIGENCE, July 4-6, 2005, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
  58. PC member, The 7th IASTED International Conference on CONTROL AND APPLICATIONS, May 18-20, 2005, Cancun, Mexico
  59. PC member, The First International Workshop on Genetic Fuzzy Systems, Granada, Spain, March 17-19, 2005
  60. PC member, The Third International Conference on Evolutionary Multi-Criterion Optimization (EMO 2005), Guanajuato, Mexico, March 9-11, 2005
  61. Program Review Committee member, Foundations of Genetic Algorithms (FOGA05), Jan. 5-9, 2005, Aizu, Fukushima, Japan
  62. PC member, The 8th International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving from Nature (PPSN VIII), Birmingham, UK, on 18-22 September 2004.
  63. TPC member, 2004 IEEE Conference on Cybernetics and Intelligent Systems , Singapore, December 1-3, 2004
  64. TPC member, the 8th Online World Conference on Soft Computing in Industrial Applications (WSC8), September 20 to October 8, 2004
  65. PC member, The 3rd IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Informatics August 16-17, 2004, British Columbia, Canada
  66. TPC member, IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation 2004 (CEC'04), Portland, USA, June 20-23, 2004
  67. PC Member, Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, Seattle, July 2004
  68. IPC member, ISDA'04, Budapest, August 26 - 28, 2004
  69. IPC member, ICAIIP-2004, 莂nakkale, April 26-28, 2004
  70. IPC member, the 2004 IEEE International Symposium on Intelligent Control, Taiwan, September 2-4, 2004
  71. TPC Member, The Second International Conference on Computational Intelligence, Robotics and Autonomous Systems, Singapore, December 2003
  72. IPC Member, Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, and Session Chair of "GA Operators", Chicago, July 2003
  73. IPC member, Second International Conference on Evolutionary Multicriterion Optimization, also Session Chair of "Objective Handling", Faro, April 2003
  74. IPC Member, Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, New York, July 2002
  75. IPC Member, International Conference on Artificial and Computational Intelligence, Tokyo, August 2002

Grant Reviewer, Referee and External Ph.D. Examiner

Ph.D. Thesis, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, 2012
Ph.D. Thesis, University of Exeter, UK, 2012
Ph.D. Thesis, University of Manchester, UK, 2012
Ph.D. Thesis, Birkberk, University of London, UK, 2011
Ph.D. Thesis, La Trobe University, Australia, 2011
Ph.D. Thesis, University of Leicester, UK, 2011
Ph.D. Thesis, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, Korea, 2011
Ph.D. Thesis, University of Dortmund, Germany, 2011
Ph.D. Thesis, Department of Management Engineering, Technical University of Denmark, 2011
Ph.D. Thesis, School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham, UK, 2011
Ph.D. Thesis, Department of Computer Science, University of Leicester, UK, 2011
Ph.D. Thesis, School of Computer Science and Information Technology, RMIT University, Australia, 2010
Ph.D. Thesis, Department of Electronics, The University of York, UK, 2010
Ph.D. Thesis, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Annamalai University, India, 2010
Ph.D. Thesis, Section Computational Science, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2009
Referee, Young Scientist Award, Singapore National Academt of Science (SNAS)
Ph.D. Thesis, School of Computer Science and Information Technology, RMIT University, Australia, 2008
Ph.D. Thesis, Department of Informatics and Systems, Universidad de las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, 2008
Ph.D. Thesis, School of Computer Science, University of Essex, UK, 2007
Ph.D. Thesis, School of Computer Science, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, 2006
Ph.D. Thesis, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, 2005
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

Journal Paper and Book Proposal Reviewer

Pattern Recognition Letters
Swarm Intelligent Systems
International Journal of Neural Systems
ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks
Advances in Engineering Software
Annuals of Operations Research
Cognitive Systems Research
Computational Optimization and Applications
Evolutionary Computation
Engineering Optimization
IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation
IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation
IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part A: Systems and Humans; Part B: Cybernetics, and Part C: Reviews and Applications
Information Sciences
International Journal of Applied Systems Studies
International Journal of Computational Intelligence and Applications
International Journal of Fuzzy Sets and Systems
International Journal of Numerical Methods in Engineering
International Journal of Uncertainty, Fuzziness, and Knowledge-based Systems
Journal of Operations Research
Neural Computation
Neural Processing Letters
Neurocomputing
Optimization and Engineering
Real-time Systems
Soft Computing Journal
Book proposal, Cambridge University Press, 2007
Book proposal, World Scientific, 2004

Teaching Experience and Student Projects

Student Supervision
I am / have (co)-supervising / (co)-supervised several students at Ph.D., Master and undergraduate levels.

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.

Last update February 2011. Please direct all inquires to Yaochu Jin.