IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine - August 2018 - 2

CIM Editorial Board
Editor-in-Chief
Hisao Ishibuchi
Southern University of Science and Technology
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Shenzhen, Guangdong, CHINA
Osaka Prefecture University
Department of Computer Science
Sakai, Osaka 599-8531, JAPAN
(Email) hisaoi@cs.osakafu-u.ac.jp

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Founding Editor-in-Chief
Gary G. Yen, Oklahoma State University, USA

Hisao Ishibuchi
Southern University of Science
and Technology, CHINA
Osaka Prefecture University, JAPAN

One Year in China

Past Editor-in-Chief
Kay Chen Tan, City University of Hong Kong,
HONG KONG
Editors-At-Large
Piero P. Bonissone, Piero P. Bonissone Analytics
LLC, USA
David B. Fogel, Natural Selection, Inc., USA
Vincenzo Piuri, University of Milan, ITALY
Marios M. Polycarpou, University of Cyprus,
CYPRUS
Jacek M. Zurada, University of Louisville, USA
Associate Editors
José M. Alonso, University of Santiago de Compostela, SPAIN
Erik Cambria, NTU, SINGAPORE
Raymond Chiong, The University of Newcastle,
AUSTRALIA
Yun Fu, Northeastern University, USA
Robert Golan, DBmind Technologies Inc., USA
Roderich Gross, The University of Sheffield, UK
Amir Hussain, University of Stirling, UK
John McCall, Robert Gordon University, UK
Zhen Ni, South Dakota State University, USA
Yusuke Nojima, OPU, JAPAN
Nelishia Pillay, University of Pretoria, SOUTH
AFRICA
Rong Qu, University of Nottingham, UK
Dipti Srinivasan, NUS, SINGAPORE
Ricardo H. C. Takahashi, UFMG, BRAZIL
Kyriakos G.Vamvoudakis, Virginia Tech, USA
Nishchal K.Verma, IIT Kanpur, INDIA
Dongrui Wu, DataNova, USA
Bing Xue, Victoria University of Wellington, NEW
ZEALAND
Dongbin Zhao, Chinese Academy of Sciences,
CHINA
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ince April 2017, I have been working in China. I live in an
apartment on the university campus. When I moved to
China last year, I knew only two Chinese words, "ni hao
(hello)" and "xie xie (thank you)". Surprisingly I have yet to learn
any other Chinese words. I rely on my secretary's help which I
am very thankful for. My biggest achievement in China has been
the success in my weight loss. I have lost more than 10 kg! I eat
three meals a day at the university's canteen. It opens seven days a week but only
for five hours a day: two hours for breakfast, one and a half hours each for lunch
and dinner. Due to this, my daily schedule is clock work around the canteen's
opening hours. Also the large and hilly campus lets me exercise regularly for my
weight control too.
Recently I visited Xiamen for a conference. Three undergraduate students came to
see me at the high-speed train station with a large name board (see the photo below).
I enjoyed dinner and a one-hour metro ride to the conference hotel. Thank you to
the student who brought back
the name board to the university. On the last day in Xiamen,
they took me to the train station and gave me some local
cakes and nuts. One of the students spoke excellent Japanese.
Her Japanese was much better
than my English. When I received a phone call from her With three first-year undergraduate students in Xiamen
before meeting them, I thought
that the call came from Japan. She was in Japan for one year when she was a highschool student. I was so impressed by her language learning ability while comparing it
to my progress with Chinese after one year. Also the other student showed me her
amazing photos of her hometown about 600 km north of Xi'an. She told me that she
often enjoyed camel rides when she was a small girl. Next year, we will host the IEEE
SSCI 2019 conference in Xiamen. I am looking forward to seeing all of you and those
students again.
The feature topic of the current CIM issue is "Bioinformatics and Bioengineering." This has been an interesting and challenging application field for CI techniques. I
hope you will enjoy all of the articles in this issue.

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