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Professor Xin Yao  
姚新

FHKEng [2024]

Vice-President (Research and Innovation), and Tong Tin Sun Chair Professor of Machine Learning, Lingnan University

Areas of expertise
Machine Learning
Evolutionary Computation
Computational Intelligence
AI
Neural Networks
Search-based software engineering (SBSE)
Profile

Prof Xin YAO has published three books, 280+ peer-reviewed journal papers and 360+ conference papers. According to Google Scholar, his research has been cited over 76,000 times by other scholars, with an H-index of 126. He was listed in World's Top 2% Scientists by Stanford University since 2021 and named Highly Cited Researcher in 2022, 2023 and 2024.

Previously, he held academic positions at the Southern University of Science and Technology (China), the University of Birmingham (UK), Australian Defence Force Academy at the University of New South Wales (Australia), and the University of Science and Technology of China (China).