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EDUCATION Ph.D., Computational Engineering Design Center, School of Engineering Science, University of Southampton, United Kingdom, Completed in 2002 M.Eng., Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, 1999 B.Eng.(1st Class Honours), Electrical & Electronics Eng., Nanyang Technological University, 1998 POSITIONS Chief Artificial Intelligence (CAS) Scientist of A*Star, From 1 May 2019 President's Chair Professor in Computer Science, Nanyang Technological University, From 1 April 2019 International Advisor, Australian Artificial Intelligence Institute (AAII), University of Technology Sydney, Australia, From August 2020 Member of the BP plc Technology Advisory Council, London UK, 2019-2022 Visiting Professor, Imperial College London, UK, 2019-2022 Visiting Professorial Fellow, University of New South Wales, Australia, 2017-2020 Director, Singtel-NTU Cognitive & Artificial Intelligence Joint Lab, 2018-Present Director, Data Science and Artificial Intelligence Research Center, 2016-Present Director, A*Star SIMTECH-NTU Joint Lab on Complex Systems, August 2013-Present Chair, School of Computer Science and Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Jan 2016 - Aug 2018 Programme Principal Investigator, Rolls-Royce@NTU Corporate Lab on Data Analytics & Complex Systems, August 2013-2016 Director, Centre for Computational Intelligence, 1 July 2008-Jan 2015 Professor, Nanyang Technological University, Since September 2015 Associate Professor, Nanyang Technological University, April 2008 - August 2015 Deputy Director, Emerging Research Laboratory, 2005 - June 2008 Assistant Professor, Nanyang Technological University, 2003 - 2008 Temporary Assistant Professor, Nanyang Technological University, 2002 Visiting Professorship, School of Computer Sciences Jubilee Campus, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom, Dec 2006 Visiting Professor/Scientist, Honda Research Institute Europe, Offenbach, Germany, May - July 2005 Visiting Professor, CERCIA, School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom, Dec 2003 - Jan 2004 Research Scholar, School of Engineering Sciences, University of Southampton, Sponsored by the British Aerospace Engineering-Rolls Royce University Technology Partnership, United Kingdom, 1999-2002 Software Engineer, Systems and Computer Organisation, Defense Science Technology Agency, Singapore, 1999-2000 Engineering Assistant, General Motors, Singapore, 1995-1996 HONORS/AWARDS Global MOOC and Online Education Alliance Awards (GMAA) co-organized by UNESCO, 2023 IEEE Transaction on Evolutionary Computation Outstanding Paper Award, 2023 AI fellow, A*Star, 2022 National Day Honours, The Public Administration Medal (Silver), 2019 IEEE Transaction on Evolutionary Computation Outstanding Paper Award, 2019 Fellow of IEEE, 2018 Founding Editor-In-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence, 2017-Present Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher, 2016 Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Researcher, 2016 World's Most Influential Scientific Minds, 2015 Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Researcher, 2015 Nanyang Education Excellence Award (University), 2016 IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine Outstanding Paper Award, 2015 Research Commercialization Award, NTUitive, 2015 Nanyang Education Excellence Award (College of Engineering), 2015. Featured in Nanyang Chronicle Issue: Vol. 20 No. 8 in Feb 2014 as a new wave of pedagogical in teaching and for innovative use of technology to improve Teaching. IEEE Transaction on Evolutionary Computation Outstanding Paper Award, 2012 Fellow of Renaissance Engineering Programme, College of Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, 2011-, 2017- Nanyang Award for Service (Team Work), 2010 International Conference on Computational Problem-Solving Best Student Paper Award, 2010 Most Popular Lecturer Award, Year 4, 2009 Featured in Bright Minds Magazine: ‘Turning Stones into Diamonds’ , 2009 Nanyang Award for Teaching Excellence, 2008 Tan Chin Tuan Exchange Fellowship in Engineering, MIT Visiting Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, 2007. Collaboration Development Award - Grid Computing/e-Science, British High Commission, 2006 Visiting Professorship, Honda Research Institute Europe, Germany, 2005 Grid Innovation Award & Applications Competition, Grid Application Kit (GAD Kit), Singapore 2004 Outbound Attachment Award, Agency for Science, Technology and Research, Singapore, 2003 University Technology Partnership Scholarship, EPSRC, British Aerospace Engineering & Rolls-Royce, United Kingdom, 2000-2003 National Science and Technology Board PTI Scheme Award, Singapore, 1998 Philip's Prize Award for Outstanding Academic Performance, Singapore, 1992 Awards & Achievements of Students and Mentees "Winner of the Graduate College Innovation and Entrepreneurship Award" 2023-2024, Lin FanFan. "2020 Competition on Constrained Multi-objective Optimization Winner", 2020 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence, Team comprising of Jiawei Yuan, Hai-Lin Liu, Yew-Soon Ong, Yaqi Pang, Zhaoshui He. "First Prize Winner of Samsung Mobile Games Challenge", 2014, Hou YaQing. "An Evolutionary Model for Constructing Robust Trust Networks", Nominated for Best Paper Award in The Twelfth International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS2013), 2013, Jiang SiWei. "Second Prize in ACM-ICPC Asia Hatyai Regional Programming Contest", Proceeding to World Final, Prince of Songkla University (PSU), Hatyai, Songkla, Thailand, 2013, Coach Zhai Yiteng. DragonVenture, Inc., United States Scholarship Award, 2013, Zhai Yiteng. "ICDM2012 NSF Student Travel Award, ICDM 2012 conference in Brussels, Belgium, Seah Chun Wei. "An Improved CUDA-Based Implementation of Differential Evolution on GPU", Nominated for ACM Genetic and Evolutionary Computations Best Paper Award in DETA/PES/BIO Track, 2012, Qin kai. IEEE Transaction on Evolutionary Computation Outstanding Paper Award, 2012, Nguyen Quang Huy. International Conference on Machine Learning Student Travel Scholarship Awards, 2012, Zhai YiTeng. IEEE computational intelligence society CIS student Travel grants for the IEEE WCCI conference, 2012, Feng Liang. IEEE computational intelligence society CIS student Travel grants for the IEEE WCCI conference, 2012, Daniel Huang. "An Evolutionary Search Paradigm that Learns with Past Experiences", Nominated for IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation Best Student Paper Award conference, 2012, Feng Liang. "Autonomous Flocks Applied To Non-Photo Realistic Rendering", Nominated for IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation Best Student Paper Award conference, 2012, Daniel Huang. International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagents Systems Student Travel Grant, 2012, Jiang Siwei. DragonVenture, Inc., United States Scholarship Award, 2012, Jiang Siwei. Research-Enabled Game Dark-Dots beat popular apps and games such as Facebook, What’s App, Angry Birds and Bejeweled!, 2011, Ho CHoon Sing. It was the top action game in 48 countries including USA, China and Singapore; downloaded by well over 448,000 players worldwide, with 27% of its players from China and 17% from the USA. Presently covered by Straits Times's Digital Life section on the research technologies used.
Machine Learning Summer School Student Scholarship, NUS, Singapore, 2011, Zhai Yiteng. IEEE computational intelligence society Walter Karplus Summer Research Grant, 2011, Mostafa Mostafa Hashim Ellabaan, Visiting Boston University. Best Student Paper Award, International Conference on Computational Problem-Solving, 2010, Doan, V.K. Singapore Computer Society Information Technology Youth Award, 2010, Pan Zhengxiang. Champion at the Youth Research Program’s 5th Anniversary Challenge 2009, Pan Zhengxiang. First Youth's innovation (IT) for Singapore Asian Youth Games accepted by SAYGOC committee, 2009, Pan Zhengxiang. Best paper Award Nomination, "Adaptation for parallel memetic algorithm based on population entropy", Proceedings of the 8th annual conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation, 2006, Tang Jing. Publication Award Student Category, "A hybrid Ant Colony Optimization for Path Planning", The Institute of Engineers, Singapore, 2004, Lim Kwee Kim. |
