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YAO Xin, Prof.

 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8837-4442

  • 8 Castle Peak Road, Tuen Mun

    Hong Kong

1991 …2026

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Name in Chinese

姚新

Biography

Prof Yao Xin is the Vice-President (Research and Innovation) and the Tong Tin Sun Chair Professor of Machine Learning at Lingnan University. Previously, he held academic positions at the Southern University of Science and Technology (China), the University of Birmingham (UK), Australian Defence Force Academy, University College, the University of New South Wales (Australia), and the University of Science and Technology of China (China). Prof Yao was elected as an IEEE Fellow in 2003. He won the Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award in 2012, IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Evolutionary Computation Pioneer Award in 2013, and the prestigious IEEE Frank Rosenblatt Award in 2020. He served as the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation in 2003-08 and the President of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society in 2014-15. He was listed in World's Top 2% Scientists by Stanford University since 2021 and named Highly Cited Researcher in 2022 and 2023. According to Google Scholar, his research has been cited over 74,000 times by other scholars, with an H-index of 122.

Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

  1. SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being
    SDG 3 Good Health and Well-being
  2. SDG 4 - Quality Education
    SDG 4 Quality Education
  3. SDG 7 - Affordable and Clean Energy
    SDG 7 Affordable and Clean Energy
  4. SDG 8 - Decent Work and Economic Growth
    SDG 8 Decent Work and Economic Growth
  5. SDG 9 - Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure
    SDG 9 Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure
  6. SDG 10 - Reduced Inequalities
    SDG 10 Reduced Inequalities
  7. SDG 11 - Sustainable Cities and Communities
    SDG 11 Sustainable Cities and Communities
  8. SDG 15 - Life on Land
    SDG 15 Life on Land

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  • A Conceptual Framework of AI Transparency from Sociotechnical Perspective

    HUANG, C., WANG, Z., WEN, X., WANG, X. & YAO, X., Apr 2026, In: IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence. 7, 4, p. 1942-1955 14 p.

    Research output: Journal Publications › Journal Article (refereed) › peer-review

    Open Access

  • Algorithm 1060: EDOLAB, a Platform for Research and Education in Evolutionary Dynamic Optimization

    PENG, M., YAZDANI, D., YAZDANI, D., SHE, Z., LUO, W., LI, C., BRANKE, J., NGUYEN, T. T., GANDOMI, A. H., YANG, S., JIN, Y. & YAO, X., Mar 2026, In: ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software. 52, 1, 31 p., 4.

    Research output: Journal Publications › Journal Article (refereed) › peer-review

    Open Access

  • Building Blocks as Experiences in Dynamic Capacitated Arc Routing Problems

    TONG, H., MINKU, L. L., MENZEL, S., SENDHOFF, B. & YAO, X., 4 Feb 2026, (E-pub ahead of print) In: CAAI Transactions on Intelligence Technology.

    Research output: Journal Publications › Journal Article (refereed) › peer-review

    Open Access
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