Professor Xin Yao BSc, MSc, PhD

School of Computer Science
Professor of Computer Science

Contact details

Telephone
+44 (0) 121 414 3747
Email
x.yao@cs.bham.ac.uk
Address
School of Computer Science
University 麻豆精选
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

Professor Xin Yao is a Professor of Computer Science in the , at the University 麻豆精选. 

Professor Yao also operates  an Innovative Training Network (ITN) for early stage researchers (ESRs) funded by the EU’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under grant agreement No.766186. It is based on novel synergies between nature inspired optimisation and machine learning. The training programme will be targeted at the automotive industry and ESRs employed on the program will be provided with the transferable skills necessary for thriving careers in emerging and rapidly developing industrial areas.

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Research

Professor Yao’s research interests include:

  • Evolutionary computation (evolutionary optimisation, evolutionary learning, evolutionary design)
  • Neural network ensembles and multiple classifiers (especially on the diversity issue)
  • Meta-heuristic algorithms
  • Data mining
  • Global optimisation
  • Simulated annealing
  • Computational complexity of evolutionary algorithms, and various real-world applications

Publications

Recent publications

Article

Tong, H, Li, M, Liu, J & Yao, X 2025, '', IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation.

Herring, D, Kirley, M & Yao, X 2024, '', Swarm and Evolutionary Computation, vol. 84, 101433.

Tong, H, Minku, L, Menzel, S, Sendhoff, B & Yao, X 2024, '', IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine, vol. 19, no. 4, 10709780, pp. 31-44.

Ruan, G, Minku, L, Xu, Z & Yao, X 2024, '', IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence.

Ruan, G, Minku, L, Menzel, S, Sendhoff, B & Yao, X 2024, '', IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence.

Ruan, G, Minku, L, Menzel, S, Sendhoff, B & Yao, X 2024, '', IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation.

Li, M, L贸pez-Ib谩帽ez, M & Yao, X 2024, '', IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, vol. 28, no. 3, pp. 696-717.

Zhang, G, Li, L, Su, Z, Yue, F, Chen, Y, Li, M & Yao, X 2024, '', ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, vol. 33, no. 6, 145.

Shi, X, Minku, L & Yao, X 2023, '', IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems.

Conference contribution

Zhang, Q, Li, M, Tang, K & Yao, X 2025, in H Singh, T Ray, J Knowles, X Li, J Branke, B Wang & A Oyama (eds), Evolutionary Multi-Criterion Optimization: 13th International Conference, EMO 2025, Canberra, ACT, Australia, March 4鈥�7, 2025, Proceedings, Part I. 1 edn, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 15512, Springer, pp. 31-45, 13th International Conference on Evolutionary Multi-Criterion Optimization , Canberra, Australia, 4/03/25.

Shi, X, Minku, L & Yao, X 2024, . in 31st International Conference on Neural Information Processing (ICONIP'2024). Springer, 31st International Conference on Neural Information Processing, Auckland, New Zealand, 2/12/24.

Shi, X, Minku, L & Yao, X 2024, . in M Bramer & F Stahl (eds), Artificial Intelligence XLI: 44th SGAI International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AI 2024, Cambridge, UK, December 17鈥�19, 2024, Proceedings, Part I. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, vol. 15446, Springer, 44th SGAI International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Cambridge, United Kingdom, 17/12/24.

Tong, H, Minku, L, Menzel, S, Sendhoff, B & Yao, X 2023, . in GECCO '23 Companion: Proceedings of the Companion Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation. GECCO: Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), pp. 45鈥�46, GECCO '23: Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, Lisbon, Portugal, 15/07/23.

Song, L, Minku, L, Teng, C & Yao, X 2023, . in S Chandra, K Blincoe & P Tonella (eds), ESEC/FSE 2023: Proceedings of the 31st ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering. FSE: Foundations of Software Engineering, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), pp. 605鈥�617, 31st ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering, San Francisco, California, United States, 3/12/23.

Preprint

Serra, G, Tino, P, Xu, Z & Yao, X 2024 '' arXiv.