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Curriculum Vitae
Profile:
Professor Xin Yao
Personal Qualifications:
❏ BSc (1982), University of Science and Technology of China
(USTC), Hefei
❏ MSc (1985), North China Institute of Computing Technologies, Beijing
❏ PhD (1990), University of Science and Technology of China
(USTC), Hefei
*All in Computer Science
Current Position:
❏ Professor of Computer Science, University of Birmingham, UK
❏ IEEE Fellow and a Distinguished Lecturer of IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (CIS)
Institutes where you have taught
and researched:
❏ University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK

Vision-The Way Forward

As the new President of CIS from January 2014, Prof. Yao envisions his main
priorities to be facilitating members to
exchange ideas and experiences while
examining the sufficiency of the current
portfolio in serving members' needs and
improving ways to better serve the CIS
community with more technical information especially practical experiences
of innovative applications of CI in a
more timely manner. Prof. Yao strongly
believes that CI is the way forward and
that major developments ahead will
require advancements in CI technologies, thus collaboration with other technical societies will also be paramount.
"My vision for the society is for it to be
the leader in the world in promoting the
research, development and practical applications of CI, by providing the highest quality
in publications for disseminating innovation;
the best conferences for face-to-face communications among members; the most up-to-date

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❏ University College, University of New South Wales, Australian Defence Force Academy, Canberra, Australia
❏ CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research
Organization) Division of Building, Construction and Engineering, Melbourne, Australia
❏ Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
❏ University of Science and Technology of China (USTC),
Hefei, China
Most notable awards and recognitions (in chronological order):
❏ IEEE Fellow (Class of 2003)
❏ 2001 IEEE Donald G. Fink Prize Paper Award
❏ 2010 IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation Outstanding Paper Award
❏ 2010 BT Gordon Radley Award for Best Author of Innovation (Finalist)
❏ 2011 IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks Outstanding
Paper Award
❏ Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award (2012)
❏ IEEE CIS Evolutionary Computation Pioneer Award (2013)

educational materials (especially online) to
support members' continuous learning; and a
wealth of complementary technical activities
to support and enhance members' careers,"
says Prof. Yao.
Prof. Yao urges all CIS members to
be more proactive in volunteering their
time and expertise to serve the society
by getting in touch with conference
chairs, journal editors, Technical Committee chairs,Vice Presidents of conferences, education, publications and
membership developments-all of
which present a vast array of areas for
involvement and participation, aimed at
allowing members to interact, network
and share ideas. This comes about especially since Prof. Yao deems CI as an
exciting field that is constantly evolving
and developing. Prof. Yao hopes to foster and promote the next generation of
CI technologies within CIS for the
benefit of its members and the wider
communities especially in the sharing

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of best practices for CI applications in
the real world.
Not wanting to rest on the laurels
of the current CIS and CI Magazine
(CIM), which has been recognized as
one of the best technical publications
in the world, Prof. Yao intends to bring
the society to greater heights by looking more closely at open-access publications-making access to accepted
papers both online and in print more
readily available. He also sees a need to
improve the promotion and dissemination of innovative applications of CI in
various real world domains. At the
same time, working hand-in-hand with
local CIS chapters is also considered an
important objective in order to provide
more tailored activities for members.
We, at CIM, wish Prof. Yao a very
successful 2014 and look forward to
moving forward with him!



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