Two leading Lingnan scholars designated Highly Cited Researchers 2024
Trusted, independent data analytics organisation Clarivate has included Lingnan University's Prof Xin Yao, Vice-President (Research and Innovation) and Tong Tin Sun Chair Professor of Machine Learning, and Prof Sam Kwong Tak-wu, Associate Vice-President (Strategic Research), Acting Dean of the School of Data Science, Dean of the School of Graduate Studies and J.K. Lee Chair Professor of Computational Intelligence, on their latest list of Highly Cited Researchers 2024. The two scholars’ multiple frequently referenced papers ranking in the top 1 per cent by citations for their fields and publication year over the past decade have made a significant and wide-ranging impact.
Prof Yao specialises in AI, machine learning, evolutionary computation, and intelligent optimisation, and was on the Highly Cited Researchers list in 2016, 2020, 2022 and 2023. Since 2021, he has been a Stanford University World’s Top 2% Scientist and is ranked 5th in China for the career-long influence of his citations in Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing. He has also been named as one of the top scientists in Research.com’s latest edition of 2024 Best Scientists, ranking 10th in Computer Science. According to Google Scholar, Prof Yao’s research studies have been cited over 79,500 times by other scholars, with an H-index of 127.
Prof Kwong has dedicated many years to evolutionary computation, AI solutions, and image/video processing, researching Computer Science, Engineering, Telecommunications, Automation & Control Systems, and Imaging Science & Photographic Technology. He was acknowledged as a Highly Cited Researcher in 2022 and 2023, and been one of the Stanford University’s World’s Top 2% Scientists since 2021, and one of the foremost scientists in Computer Science in Research.com’s latest edition of 2024 Best Scientists. His development of AI technology to enhance image quality in low-light environments won the Silver Award at the 49th Geneva International Exhibition of Inventions.
