Speakers

Keynote Speakers

Prof. Yaochu Jin

IEEE Fellow

Westlake University, China

Experience: I am a Distinguished Chair and Professor in Computational Intelligence, Co-Coordinator of the Centre for Mathematical and Computational Biology (CMCB), Department of Computer Science, University of Surrey. I was a Finland Distinguished Professor (2015-17) with the Multi-objective Optimization Group, Faculty of Information Technology, University of Jyvaskyla, Finland, and a Changjiang Distinguished Visiting Professor (2015-17), State Key Laboratory of Synthetical Automation of Process Industry, Northeastern University, China.

I am the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems and Co-Editor-in-Chief of Complex & Intelligent Systems (Springer). I was an elected AdCom member (2012-2013), Vice President for Technical Activities (2014-2015), and an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer (2013-2015, 2017-2019) of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society. I was elevated to an IEEE Fellow for contributions to evolutionary optimization.

Prof. Zhihui Zhan

IEEE Fellow

South China University Of Technology, China

Experience: Dr. Zhi-Hui Zhan received the Bachelor’s degree and the Ph. D. degree in Computer Science from Sun Yat-Sen University (SYSU), Guangzhou, P. R. China in 2007 and in 2013, respectively. He was a Lecture with the School of Information Science and Techonlogy, SYSU, from 2013-2014, was an Associate Professor with the School of Advanced Computing, SYSU, from 2014-2015, since 2016 is a Professor with the School of Computer Science and Engineering, South China University of Technology (SCUT), and since 2024 is a Professor with the College of Artificial Intelligence, Nankai University (NKU).
His current research interests include artifical intelligence, computational intelligence, evolutionary computation, and swarm intelligence, especially the particle swarm optimization, genetic algorithm, ant colony optimization, differential evolution, and other optimization algorithms and their applications. He has published over 200 papers in international journals and conference proceedings, including more than 80 IEEE Transactions papers. 1 of them is the Essential Science Indicator (ESI) Hot Paper, and more than 20 of them is the Essential Science Indicator (ESI) Highly Cited Paper. The “Adaptive Particle Swarm Optimization (APSO)”, the “Orthogonal Learning Particle Swarm Optimization (OLPSO)”, the “Multiple Populations for Multiple Objectives (MPMO)”, and some others are all listed as the Research Fronts of ESI. His published papers have been cited over 14300 times by the scholars all over the world, according to Google Scholar or Google Scholar (for Chinese), and over 8700 times in Web of Science.
Dr. Zhan was a recipient of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (CIS) Outstanding Early Career Award in 2021, the Outstanding Youth Science Foundation from National Natural Science Foundations of China (NSFC) in 2018, and the Wu Wen-Jun Artificial Intelligence Excellent Youth from the Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence in 2017. His doctoral dissertation was awarded the IEEE CIS Outstanding Ph. D. Dissertation in 2018, the China Computer Federation (CCF) Outstanding Ph. D. Dissertation in 2013, and Guangdong Province Outstanding Dissertation in 2014. He is the Changjiang Scholar Young Professor and the Pearl River Scholar Young Professor. Dr. Zhan is listed as one of the World’s Top 2% Scientists for both Career-Long Impact and Year Impact in Artificial Intelligence and one of the Elsevier Most Cited Chinese Researchers in Computer Science.