Profile Details

Comprehensive overview of education, positions, honors, and achievements

Education
Ph.D. in Computational Engineering Design

Computational Engineering Design Center, School of Engineering Science

University of Southampton, United Kingdom

Completed in 2002
M.Eng. in Electrical and Electronics Engineering

Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

1999
B.Eng. (1st Class Honours) in Electrical & Electronics Engineering

Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

1998
Positions
Chief Artificial Intelligence (CAS) Scientist
A*Star
Since 2019
President's Chair Professor in Computer Science
Nanyang Technological University
Since 2019
Director, Singtel-NTU Cognitive & Artificial Intelligence Joint Lab
Since 2018
Director, Data Science and Artificial Intelligence Research Center
2016-2021
Member of the BP plc Technology Advisory Council
London UK
2019-2022
Visiting Professor
Imperial College London, UK
2019-2022
Visiting Professorial Fellow
University of New South Wales, Australia
2017-2020
Director, A*Star SIMTECH-NTU Joint Lab on Complex Systems
2013-2024
Chair, School of Computer Science and Engineering
Nanyang Technological University
2016 - 2019
Programme Principal Investigator, Rolls-Royce@NTU Corporate Lab on Data Analytics & Complex Systems
August 2013-2016
Director, Centre for Computational Intelligence
2008 - 2015
Professor
Nanyang Technological University
Since 2015
Visiting Professor
CSAIL, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
2007
Visiting Professorship
School of Computer Sciences Jubilee Campus, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom
2006
Visiting Professor/Scientist
Honda Research Institute Europe, Offenbach, Germany
2005, 2016, 2024
Visiting Professor
CERCIA, School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom
2003-2004
Research Scholar
School of Engineering Sciences, University of Southampton, Sponsored by the British Aerospace Engineering-Rolls Royce University Technology Partnership, United Kingdom
1999-2002
Honors & Awards
Fellow of The Academy of Engineering, Singapore
2024
Stanford Elsevier World's Top 2% Scientists
2020-2024
IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Fellow Evaluation Committee Chair
2023-2025
IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Distinguished Lecturer
2024-2026
Four IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation Outstanding Paper Awards
2012, 2015, 2023, 2025
Global MOOC and Online Education Alliance Awards (GMAA) co-organized by UNESCO
2023
AI fellow, A*Star
2022
National Day Honours, The Public Administration Medal (Silver)
2019
Fellow of IEEE
2018
Founding Editor-In-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence
2017-Present
Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher
2016
Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Researcher
2016
Award
World's Most Influential Scientific Minds
2015
Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Researcher
2015
Award
Nanyang Education Excellence Award (University)
2016
IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine Outstanding Paper Award
2015
Research Commercialization Award, NTUitive
2015
Nanyang Education Excellence Award (College of Engineering)
2015
Featured in Nanyang Chronicle Issue: Vol. 20 No. 8
Feb 2014 - New wave of pedagogical teaching and innovative use of technology
Fellow of Renaissance Engineering Programme, College of Engineering, NTU
2011-, 2017-
Nanyang Award for Service (Team Work)
2010
International Conference on Computational Problem-Solving Best Student Paper Award
2010
Most Popular Lecturer Award, Year 4
2009
Featured in Bright Minds Magazine: 'Turning Stones into Diamonds'
2009
Nanyang Award for Teaching Excellence
2008
Tan Chin Tuan Exchange Fellowship in Engineering, MIT Visiting Professor
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, 2007
Collaboration Development Award - Grid Computing/e-Science
British High Commission, 2006
Visiting Professorship, Honda Research Institute Europe, Germany
2005
Grid Innovation Award & Applications Competition, Grid Application Kit (GAD Kit)
Singapore 2004
Outbound Attachment Award
Agency for Science, Technology and Research, Singapore, 2003
University Technology Partnership Scholarship, EPSRC, British Aerospace Engineering & Rolls-Royce
United Kingdom, 2000-2003
National Science and Technology Board PTI Scheme Award
Singapore, 1998
Philip's Prize Award for Outstanding Academic Performance
Singapore, 1992
Student Awards & Achievements
NTU Kumar Sustainability & Innovation Prize 2023

2nd runner up - Team: Lokeshh Sampath, Amelia Choong Rui Lin, Param Srinivasan, Tong Ying and Ashish Chugh

NTU Kumar Prize
Graduate College Innovation and Entrepreneurship Award 2023-2024

Winner: Lin FanFan

Singapore Amazing Flying Machine Competition 2022

3rd position in Category D1 - Team: Chan Ming Han, Chan Shawn Keng Kiat, Wong Yu Fei, Lim Sui Kiat and Wayne Tan Jing Heng

SAFMC Competition
2020 Competition on Constrained Multi-objective Optimization Winner

2020 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence - Team: Jiawei Yuan, Hai-Lin Liu, Yew-Soon Ong, Yaqi Pang, Zhaoshui He

IMDA's Youth Innovation Showcase and Awards 2019

Winners of Best of Show Award and Visitors' Choice Award - Team Whizz: Fong Kuo Xin Anthony, Foo Mawqing Melvin, Ho Li Ting Valerie, Victor Gwee De Ming and Vivienne Chong Yu Jing

IMDA Awards
2015 Shell Ideas360 Competition Winner

Team Renaissance: Alex, May and Nitya officially recognised as some of the brightest young minds in innovation!

Shell Competition 1
Shell Competition 2
MHA SAFE Gold Award 2015

Ng Ang Hui, Joyce Ng Hui Shuen, Yong Wei Siong, May Lim Mei Ling, Ho Jun Yi, Hillary Yap Lok Lee

MHA Award 1
MHA Award 2
First Prize Winner of Samsung Mobile Games Challenge

2014, Hou YaQing

An Evolutionary Model for Constructing Robust Trust Networks

Nominated for Best Paper Award in The Twelfth International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS2013), 2013, Jiang SiWei

Second Prize in ACM-ICPC Asia Hatyai Regional Programming Contest

Proceeding to World Final, Prince of Songkla University (PSU), Hatyai, Songkla, Thailand, 2013, Coach Zhai Yiteng

DragonVenture, Inc., United States Scholarship Award

2013, Zhai Yiteng

ICDM2012 NSF Student Travel Award

ICDM 2012 conference in Brussels, Belgium, Seah Chun Wei

An Improved CUDA-Based Implementation of Differential Evolution on GPU

Nominated for ACM Genetic and Evolutionary Computations Best Paper Award in DETA/PES/BIO Track, 2012, Qin kai

IEEE Transaction on Evolutionary Computation Outstanding Paper Award

2012, Nguyen Quang Huy

International Conference on Machine Learning Student Travel Scholarship Awards

2012, Zhai YiTeng

IEEE computational intelligence society CIS student Travel grants for the IEEE WCCI conference

2012, Feng Liang

IEEE computational intelligence society CIS student Travel grants for the IEEE WCCI conference

2012, Daniel Huang

An Evolutionary Search Paradigm that Learns with Past Experiences

Nominated for IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation Best Student Paper Award conference, 2012, Feng Liang

Autonomous Flocks Applied To Non-Photo Realistic Rendering

Nominated for IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation Best Student Paper Award conference, 2012, Daniel Huang

International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagents Systems Student Travel Grant

2012, Jiang Siwei

DragonVenture, Inc., United States Scholarship Award

2012, Jiang Siwei

Research-Enabled Game Dark-Dots beat popular apps and games

2011, Ho CHoon Sing. It was the top action game in 48 countries including USA, China and Singapore; downloaded by well over 448,000 players worldwide, with 27% of its players from China and 17% from the USA. Presently covered by Straits Times's Digital Life section on the research technologies used.

Machine Learning Summer School Student Scholarship, NUS, Singapore

2011, Zhai Yiteng

IEEE computational intelligence society Walter Karplus Summer Research Grant

2011, Mostafa Mostafa Hashim Ellabaan, Visiting Boston University

Best Student Paper Award, International Conference on Computational Problem-Solving

2010, Doan, V.K.

Singapore Computer Society Information Technology Youth Award

2010, Pan Zhengxiang

Champion at the Youth Research Program's 5th Anniversary Challenge

2009, Pan Zhengxiang

First Youth's innovation (IT) for Singapore Asian Youth Games accepted by SAYGOC committee

2009, Pan Zhengxiang

Best paper Award Nomination, "Adaptation for parallel memetic algorithm based on population entropy"

Proceedings of the 8th annual conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation, 2006, Tang Jing

Publication Award Student Category, "A hybrid Ant Colony Optimization for Path Planning"

The Institute of Engineers, Singapore, 2004, Lim Kwee Kim