简介
Yaochu Jin 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, Germany, in 2001.
He joined the Westlake University, Hangzhou, China as a Chair Professor of AI in October 2023, leading the Trustworthy and General AI Lab. He was an Alexander von Humboldt Professor for AI, Chair of Nature Inspired Computing and Engineering, Faculty of Technology, Bielefeld University, Germany from 2021 to 2023, and a Distinguished Chair, Professor in Computational Intelligence, Department of Computer Science, University of Surrey, Guildford, U.K. from 2010 to 2021. He was a “Finland Distinguished Professor”, University of Jyväskylä, Finland, “Changjiang Distinguished Visiting Professor”, Northeastern University, China, and “Distinguished Visiting Scholar”, University of Technology Sydney, Australia. His main research interests include evolutionary optimization of complex systems, trustworthy AI, and brain-like embodied AI.
Prof Jin is presently the President of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society and the Editor-in-Chief of Complex & Intelligent Systems. He was the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON COGNITIVE AND DEVELOPMENTAL SYSTEMS (2016-2022) and IEEE Distinguished Lecturer in 2013-2015 and 2017-2019, the Vice President for Technical Activities of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (2015-2016). He was the General Co-Chair of the 2016 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence, and the General Chair of the 2025 and 2020 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation. He is the recipient of the 2018, 2021 and 2023 IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation Outstanding Paper Award, the 2015, 2017, and 2020 IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine Outstanding Paper Award, and the Best Paper Award of the 2010 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology. He received the 2025 IEEE Frank Rosenblatt Award. He has been named by tClarivate as “a Highly Cited Researcher” consecutively from 2019. He is a Member of Academia Europaea and Fellow of IEEE.
