Yaochu Jin

Yaochu Jin was born in Wujiang, Jiangsu Province, China in 1966. He received the B.Sc., M.Sc., and Ph.D. degrees from [https://www.zju.edu.cn/english/ Zhejiang University], Hangzhou, China, in 1988, 1991, and 1996, respectively, and the Dr.-Ing. degree from Ruhr University Bochum [https://www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/en], Germany, in 2001.

He is presently [https://www.humboldt-foundation.de/en/explore/newsroom/dossier-alexander-von-humboldt-professorship/yaochu-jin Alexander von Humboldt Professor for Artificial Intelligence], Chair of Nature Inspired Computing and Engineering [https://ekvv.uni-bielefeld.de/pers_publ/publ/EinrichtungDetail.jsp?orgId=308723554], Faculty of Technology, Bielefeld University, Germany, and Distinguished Chair in Computational Intelligence, Department of Computer Science, University of Surrey, United Kingdom. He was a "Finland Distinguished Professor" with the University of Jyvaskyla, Finland, and "Changjiang Distinguished Visiting Professor" with the Northeastern University, China. He was also a distinguished visiting scholar at the [https://www.uts.edu.au/ University of Science and Technology Sydney].

He was named Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 2015 (class 2016) "for contributions to evolutionary optimization", and was selected a Member of Academia Europaea in 2021. He won the [https://corporate-awards.ieee.org/recipient/yaochu-jin/ 2025 IEEE Frank Rosenblatt Award].

He is presently the Editor-in-Chief of the ''IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems'', and the Editor-in-Chief of ''Complex & Intelligent Systems''.

Prof Jin was named a Highly Cited Researcher from 2019 and 2024 by Clarivate's Web of Science group. Provided by Wikipedia