Yaochu Jin - Resume

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I am a Professor of Computational Intelligence and Head of Nature Inspired Computing and Engineering (NICE) Group , Department of Computing, University of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey, UK. I am also a Guest Professor of University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China.

My primary research interests include the computational approach to a systems-level understanding of evolution, learning and development in biology, and bio-inspired approaches to solving engineering problems. Relevant research fields cover artificial life, computational intelligence, computational systems biology and computational neuroscience. Currently, I am interested in the following research topics:

Computational intelligence
Computational systems biology, morphogenetic self-organized engineering systems
Computational evolutionary, developmental and cognitive neuroscience

I currently serve as an Associate Editor of BioSystems, the IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, and the IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Part C: Applications and Reviews.

PhD studentship available, see details (UK nationals or UK permanent residency required.)

Highly motived perspective students interested in any of the above topics are encouraged to contact me by emailing.

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 and 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: Guest 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

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, 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)
Member of Editorial Board, Soft Computing, (2006-)
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-based, on-going)
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
- Plenary talk, "Morphogenetic robotics", World Congress on Nature and Biologically Inspired Computing, Kitakyushu, Japan, December 15-17, 2010
- Plenary talk, "Analysis and Synthesis of Gene Regulatory Networks and Their Application to Morphogenetic Robotics", International Conference on Computational Systems Biology and Bioinformatics, Bangkok, Thailand, November 4-5, 2010
- Keynote talk, "A fitness-independent evolvability measure for evolutionary developmental systems", 7th International Symposium on Networks in Bioinformatics, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, April 22-23, 2010
- 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
- Keynote talk, "Efficient evolutionary algorithms for complex engineering design", Adaptive Computing in Design and Manufacturing, April 29th-30th 2008, Bristol, UK
- 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
- Plenary talk, "Pareto-based multi-objective machine learning", Hybrid Intelligent Systems, Sep. 17-19, 2007, Kaiserslautern, Germany
Other Invited Talks
- Invited talks, "Evolutionary optimization of expensive problems" and "Multi-objective machine learning", The 2010 International Workshop on Nature Inspired Computation and Application , October 23-27, 2010, Hefei, China
- Invited talk, EU ICT FET Action Workshop on EVOBODY: new Principles of Unbound Embodied Evolution. Sept. 23, 2010, Malta
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Invited talk, "Analysis, synthesis and applications of gene regulatory network", Colloquium, Faculty of Science, University of Amsterdam, February 13, 2009
- 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
- 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
- Invited talk (together with B. Sendhoff), "Towards multi-objective system optimization", EMO 2007, March 8, Matsushima, Japan
- 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
- Invited talk, "Modeling regularity in multi-objective optimization", PPSN Workshop on Multi-Objective problem Solving from Nature, Sep. 9, 2006, Reykjavik
- Invited talk, "Multi-objective machine learning", School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham, February 18, 2006
- Invited talk, "Research on evolution and learning at HRI-EU", Kanpur Genetic Algorithm Lab , Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India, July 6, 2005
- 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
- Invited talk, "Aerodynamic optimization using evolutionary algorithms", Track on EC in Industry, GECCO'04, Seattle, July 2004
- 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), University of Dortmund, Germany, March 1, 2004
- Invited talk on "Rethinking multi-objective evolutionary algorithms", Dagstuhl Seminar on Theory of Evolutionary Algorithms, Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany, Feb. 15-20, 2004
- Invited talk on "Dynamic weighted aggregation: from multi-objective optimization to dynamic optimum tracking". AIFB, University of Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany, Nov. 28, 2003
- 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 "Multi-objective machine learning", 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

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

Grant Reviewer, Referee and External Ph.D. Examiner

Ph.D. Thesis, Department of Computer Science, University of Leicester, UK, 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 June 2010. Please direct all inquires to Yaochu Jin.