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(1987-1993), Assistant Professor (1993),
Associate Professor (1994-1999) and
Full Professor (1999-2017). Currently
he is with Southern University of Science and Technology as Chair Professor.
He has been a chair of a number of
international conferences such as General Chair of ICMLA 2011, IEEE
CIFEr 2019 and EMO 2021, and Program Chair of SoCPaR 2009, IEEE
CEC 2010, IES 2014, ICACI 2018 and

IEEE SSCI 2022. In the IEEE CIS, he
was the Chair of the Fuzzy Systems
Technical Committee (2008-2009), the
Vice-President for Technical Activities
(2010-2013), an AdCom member
(2014-2019), the Editor-in-Chief of
IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine (2014-2019), and Distinguished
Lecturer (2015-2017, 2021-2023).
He is an IEEE Fellow. He received
the JSPS Prize in 2007, IEEE CIS Fuzzy

Systems Pioneer Award in 2019, IEEE
Trans. on Evolutionary Computation
Outstanding Paper Award in 2020, and
Best Paper Award from a number of
inter national conferences such as
GECCO 2004, 2017, 2018, 2020,
FUZZ-IEEE 2009, 2011 and EMO
2019. His students also received Student
Best Paper Award from a number of
international conferences such as IEEE
CEC 2020 and FUZZ-IEEE 2020.

Gary G. Yen
IEEE CIS 2020 Fellow Committee Chair

IEEE Fellows-Class of 2021
De-Shuang Huang
Tongji University, CHINA
for contributions to neural networks for pattern recognition and bioinformatics.
De-Shuang Huang is
currently a Professor
in Department of
Computer Science
and Director of Institute of Machine
Learning and Systems Biology at Tongji University, China. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. in
electronic engineering from National
Defense University of Science and
Technology and Xidian University,
China, in 1989 and 1993, respectively.
He was the Recipient of " Hundred Talents Program of Chinese Academy of
Sciences " (2000). He was also visiting
professors at the George Washington
University, Washington DC, USA
(2003), Queen's University of Belfast,
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UK (2006) and Inha University, Korea
(2007, 2008 & 2009). He was also the
visiting professor of the Liverpool
John-Moore University, UK (2015-
2018). De-Shuang Huang was elected
as the Fellow of the International Association of Pattern Recognition (IAPR
Fellow) in 2014, the Board Member of
the International Neural Network Society (INNS) Governors (2013-2019),
and associated editors of several mainstream international journals such as
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology & Bioinformatics, etc.
He founded the International Conference on Intelligent Computing (ICIC)
in 2005. ICIC has since been successfully held annually with him serving as
General or Steering Committee Chair.
He also served as the 2015 International Joint Conference on Neural
Networks (IJCNN 2015) General
Chair, July 12-17, 2015, Killarney, Ireland, the 2014 11th IEEE Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics
and Computational Biology Confer-

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ence (IEEE-CIBCBC) Program Committee Chair, May 21-24, 2014,
Honolulu, USA, and the 2014 IEEE
World Congress on Computational Intelligence-International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, Technical
Committee Co-Chair, July 6-11, 2014,
Beijing, China.
He has published over 400 papers in
international journals, international conferences proceedings, and edited 52
books or proceedings as well as 26 Special Issues as guest editor in different
journals. Also, he published three monographs (in Chinese), one of which, entitled with " Systematic Theory of Neural
Networks for Pattern Recognition, "
won the Second-Class Prize of the 8th
Excellent High Technology Books of
China in 1997. He was invited speaker
at over 90 international/national conferences and workshops, including 16 keynote speeches at some international
conferences. His main research interest
includes neural networks, pattern recognition and bioinformatics.

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