Lingnan AI expert Prof Xin Yao elected Fellow of the Hong Kong Academy of Engineering
Prof Xin Yao, Vice-President (Research and Innovation) and Tong Tin Sun Chair Professor of Machine Learning of Lingnan University has been elected Fellow of the Hong Kong Academy of Engineering for the year 2024.
Congratulations! Prof Xin Yao, Vice-President (Research and Innovation) and Tong Tin Sun Chair Professor of Machine Learning of Lingnan University has been elected Fellow of the Hong Kong Academy of Engineering (HKAE) for the year 2024. Prof Yao is the third Lingnan scholar to receive this honour, after Prof S. Joe Qin, President and Wai Kee Kau Chair Professor of Data Science, and Prof Sam Kwong Tak-wu, Associate Vice-President (Strategic Research) and J.K. Lee Chair Professor of Computational Intelligence.
Prof Xin Yao is a leading international scholar in the field of Artificial Intelligence, and has been engaged in research on the fundamentals and practical aspects of computational intelligence for many years, covering interdisciplinary areas such as smart logistics, mechanics, aeronautical engineering, and biology. He has taught at the Southern University of Science and Technology, the University of Birmingham, the Australian Defence Force Academy, the University of New South Wales, and the University of Science and Technology of China. The professor is the first Chinese ever to receive the 2020 IEEE Frank Rosenblatt Award, and was on the list of Highly Cited Researchers in 2016, 2020, 2022, 2023, and 2024. He has been one of Stanford University World’s Top 2% Scientists every year since 2021, ranking fifth in China in the field of Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing, and is a top scientist 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 80,000 times by other scholars, with an H-index of 129.