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IEEE TNNLS. Currently he is in the editorial board of journals such as AI Communications, Theoretical Computer Science
(section on Natural Computing), IEEE Intelligent Systems Magazine. He is an IEEE senior member.
Keynote: Advances in Evolutionary Learning and Optimization
Event: IEEE CIDM – 2013 Venue: Lyrebird Level 3
Date/Time: 13.30 – 14.30, Wed. 17 April 2013 Chair(s): Zhi-Hua Zhou
Speaker: K. C. Tan
Kay Chen TAN is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National
University of Singapore. He is actively pursuing research in computational and artificial intelligence, with applications to
multi-objective optimization, scheduling, automation, data mining, and games.
Dr. Tan has published over 100 journal papers, over 100 papers in conference proceedings, co-authored 5 books including
Multiobjective Evolutionary Algorithms and Applications (Springer-Verlag, 2005), Modern Industrial Automation Software
Design (John Wiley, 2006; Chinese Edition, 2008), Evolutionary Robotics: From Algorithms to Implementations (World Scientific,
2006; Review), Neural Networks: Computational Models and Applications (Springer-Verlag, 2007), and Evolutionary
Multi-objective Optimization in Uncertain Environments: Issues and Algorithms (Springer-Verlag, 2009), co-edited
4 books including Recent Advances in Simulated Evolution and Learning (World Scientific, 2004), Evolutionary Scheduling
(Springer-Verlag, 2007), Multiobjective Memetic Algorithms (Springer-Verlag, 2009), and Design and Control of Intelligent
Robotic Systems (Springer-Verlag, 2009).
Dr. Tan has been invited to be an invited keynote/pleanary speaker for 25 international conferences. He served in the
international program committee for over 100 conferences and involved in the organizing committee for over 30 international
conferences, including the General Co-Chair for IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation 2007 in Singapore and
the General Co-Chair for IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Scheduling 2009 in Tennessee, USA. Dr. Tan is
an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer of IEEE Computational Intelligence Society since 2011.
Dr. Tan is currently the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine (CIM). He also serves as an Associate
Editor / Editorial Board member of over 15 international journals, such as IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation,
IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics: Part B Cybernetics, IEEE Transactions on Computational Intelligence
and AI in Games, Evolutionary Computation (MIT Press), European Journal of Operational Research, Journal of Scheduling,
and International Journal of Systems Science.
Dr. Tan is the awardee of the 2012 IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (CIS) Outstanding Early Career Award for
his contributions to evolutionary computation in multi-objective optimization. He also received the Recognition Award
(2008) from the International Network for Engineering Education & Research (iNEER) for his outstanding contributions to
engineering education and research. He was also a winner of the NUS Outstanding Educator Awards (2004), the Engineering
Educator Awards (2002, 2003, 2005), the Annual Teaching Excellence Awards (2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006), and the Honour
Roll Awards (2007). Dr. Tan was a Fellow of the NUS Teaching Academic (2009 – 2012).
Keynote: Evolutionary Optimization in Dynamic and Uncertain Environments
Event: IEEE CIDUE – 2013 Venue: Lyrebird Level 3
Date/Time: 8.30 – 9.30, Wed. 17 April 2013 Chair(s): Andries Engelbrecht
Speaker: Yaochu Jin
Yaochu Jin (M’98-SM’02) received the B.Sc., M.Sc., and Ph.D. degrees from Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, in 1988,
1991, and 1996 respectively, and the Dr. Ing. degree from Ruhr-University Bochum, Bochum, Germany, in 2001.
He is currently a Professor and the Chair in Computational Intelligence with the Department of Computing, University
of Surrey, Guildford, U.K., where he heads the Nature Inspired Computing and Engineering Group. Before joining Surrey,
he was a Principal Scientist and Group Leader with the Honda Research Institute Europe, Offenbach am Main, Germany.
His main research interests include computational intelligence, computational neuroscience and computational systems
biology, with applications to complex engineering optimization, bioengineering, swarm robotics, and autonomous systems.
He has (co)edited five books and three conference proceedings, authored a monograph, and (co)authored over 150 peerreviewed
journal and conference papers. He has been granted eight US, EU and Japan patents. His current research is
funded by EU FP7, UK EPSRC and industries, including Intellas UK, Santander, Aero Optimal, Bosch UK and Honda.
He has delivered over ten invited keynote speeches on morphogenetic robotics; developmental neural systems; modeling,
analysis, and synthesis of gene regulatory networks; evolutionary optimization; and multi-objective learning at international
conferences.
Dr. Jin is an Associate Editor of BioSystems, the International Journal of Fuzzy Systems and Soft Computing, the IEEE
Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part B:
Cybernetics, IEEE Transactions on Nanobioscience, and IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine. He is a Distinguished
Lecturer (2013 – 2015) and an elected AdCom Member (2012 – 2014) of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society. He was
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