Biography

Xin-She Yang obtained his DPhil in Applied Mathematics from the University of Oxford. He then worked at Cambridge University and then later at National Physical Laboratory (UK) as a Senior Research Scientist. Now he is Reader at Middlesex University London, and a co-Editor of the Springer Tracts in Nature-Inspired Computing. He is also an elected Fellow of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (FIMA), UK. He was the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (CIS) chair for the Task Force on Business Intelligence and Knowledge Management (2015 to 2020). He has published more than 40 books and more than 350 peer-reviewed research papers with more than 92,500 citations, and he has been on the prestigious list of most influential researchers or highly-cited researchers (Web of Sciences) for nine consecutive years since 2016.

Reader in Modelling and Optimization at Middlesex University London, FIMA
Fellow of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (FIMA).
Fellow of Asian Computational Intelligence Society

Book Series Editor of the Springer Tracts in Nature-Inspired Computing (STNIC)
https://www.springer.com/series/16134

Member of the UKRI Talent Peer Review College

Editorial Board of multiple international journals, inlcuding Journal of Computationa Science (Elsevier), Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence (Elsevier), International of Bio-Inspired Computation and others.

Other Professional Activities/Editorship
(a) Editor-in-Chief of Int. J. Mathematical Modelling and Numerical Optimisation (IJMMNO) [2009-2022]
(b) Editorial Board of International Journal of Computer Mathematics (2018-2024)
(c) IEEE CIS Task Force Chair (2015-2020)