Scholar
Yew-Soon Ong
Google Scholar ID: h9oWOsEAAAAJ
President Chair Professor of Computer Science, A*Star AI Chief Scientist, FIEEE
Citations & Impact
Citations
19,956
H-index
73
i10-index
267
Publications
20
Co-authors
0
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Fellow of IEEE, Fellow of the Singapore national academy of engineering, founding Editor-In-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence, founding Technical Editor-In-Chief of Memetic Computing Journal (Springer), Senior Editor of IEEE Transactions on Neural Network & Learning Systems, Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence, and chief co-editor of Book Series on Studies in Adaptation, Learning, and Optimization. He has received five IEEE outstanding paper awards and was listed as a Thomson Reuters highly cited researcher. Published over 300 referred papers at ICML, ICLR, NeurIPS, IJCAI, AAAI, CVPR, KDD, WWW, AAMAS and ACM/IEEE Transactions.
Research Experience
- Currently a President's Chair Professor of Computer Science at the College of Computing & Data Science and Professor (Cross Appointment) of the School of Physical and Mathematical Science at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. At the same time, he is Chief Artificial Intelligence (CAS) Scientist of the Singapore's Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR). Served as the Chair of the School of Computer Science and Engineering, NTU between 2016-2019, Director of the Singtel-NTU Cognitive & Artificial Intelligence Joint Lab (SCALE@NTU) since 2017, Director of Data Science and AI Research Centre from 2017 -2020, Director of the Centre for Computational Intelligence/Computational Intelligence Laboratory from 2008-2015, and Programme Principal Investigator of the Data Analytics & Complex System Programme in the Rolls-Royce@NTU Corporate Lab from 2013-2017.
Education
- Received his Bachelors and Masters degrees from Nanyang Technological University and subsequently his PhD on Artificial Intelligence in Complex Engineering Design from the University of Southampton, United Kingdom.
Background
- Research interests include Artificial Intelligence, Computational Intelligence, Statistical Machine Learning, Evolutionary Computation, Optimization, and Memetic Computation. Specializes in Physical AI, Safe & Resilient AI, Transfer, Multitask & Multiobjective Optimization, Bayesian Optimization, and Combinatorial Optimization.
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